Our eBooks (by title)
45 Years with Philips: An Industrialist’s Life by Frederik Philips
A General’s Life: An Autobiography by Omar Bradley and Clay Blair
A Hero of Our Own: The Story of Varian Fry by Sheila Isenberg
A History of the Israeli Army: 1874 to the Present by Ze'ev Schiff
A Jewish Athlete: Swimming Against Stereotype in 20th Century Europe by Helen Epstein
A Life in Our Times by John Kenneth Galbraith
A Living Will by Helen Epstein
A Mind Always in Motion: The Autobiography of Emilio Segrè by Emilio Segrè
A Mind of Her Own: The Life of Karen Horney by Susan Quinn
A Nervous Splendor: Vienna 1888-1889 by Frederic Morton
A. P. Giannini: Banker of America by Felice A. Bonadio
A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration, and the Cold War by Melvyn Leffler
A Sense of Purpose: Recollections by Suzy Eban
A Village by the Jordan: The Story of Degania by Joseph Baratz
Abba Eban: An Autobiography by Abba Eban
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller: The Woman in the Family by Bernice Kert
Abraham Lincoln and the Union by Oscar and Lilian Handlin
Account Rendered: A Dossier on my Former Self by Melita Maschmann
Acting in Terezín by Vlasta Schönová
Adepts in Self-Portraiture: Casanova, Stendhal, Tolstoy by Stefan Zweig
Al Smith: Hero of the Cities by Matthew and Hannah Josephson
Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel by Banesh Hoffmann
All Authors Are Equal by Fredric Warburg
Allies in War: Britain and America Against the Axis Powers, 1940-1945 by Mark Stoler
Alsos by Samuel Goudsmit
Alvarez: Adventures of a Physicist by Luis W. Alvarez
Amending America: If We Love the Constitution So Much, Why Do We Keep Trying to Change It? by Richard B. Bernstein
American Cassandra: The Life of Dorothy Thompson by Peter Kurth
American Zionism from Herzl to the Holocaust by Melvin Urofsky
Amerigo: A Comedy of Errors in History by Stefan Zweig
An American Genius: The Life of Ernest Orlando Lawrence, Father of the Cyclotron by Herbert Childs
An Occupation For Gentlemen by Fredric Warburg
Archivist on a Bicycle: Jiří Fiedler edited by Helen Epstein and Wilma Iggers
Arms and Men: A Study in American Military History by Walter Millis
Art and Argyrol: The Life and Career of Dr. Albert C. Barnes by William Schack
Assimilation, American Style by Peter Salins
Atomic Quest: A Personal Narrative by Arthur Holly Compton
Atoms, Bombs and Eskimo Kisses: A Memoir of Father and Son by Claudio Segrè
Balzac by Stefan Zweig
Baruch: The Public Years by Bernard Baruch
Becoming William James by Howard M. Feinstein
Before Golda: Manya Shochat by Rachel Yanait Ben-Zvi
Bell: Alexander Graham Bell and the Conquest of Solitude by Robert V. Bruce
Ben Shahn: An Artist’s Life by Howard Greenfeld
Berl: The Biography of a Socialist Zionist, Berl Katznelson 1887-1944 by Anita Shapira
Bernard-Lazare: Antisemitism and the problem of Jewish identity in late nineteenth-century France by Nelly Wilson
Between Harvard and America: The Educational Leadership of Charles W. Eliot by Hugh Hawkins
Blind Jump: The Story of Shaike Dan by Amos Ettinger
Boss Kettering: The Wizard of General Motors by Stuart W. Leslie
Brandeis: A Free Man’s Life by Alpheus Thomas Mason
Budapest Diary: In Search of the Motherbook by Susan Rubin Suleiman
Building A Great Library: The Coolidge Years at Harvard by William Bentinck-Smith
Calculated Risk by Mark W. Clark
Callas: Portrait of a Prima Donna by George Jellinek
Camille Claudel: A Life by Odile Ayral-Clause
Cause at Heart: A Former Communist Remembers by Junius Irving Scales and Richard Nickson
Churchill by Sebastian Haffner
Confronting the Silence: A Holocaust Survivor’s Search for God by Walter Ziffer
Counsel and Advise: A Political Biography of Samuel I. Rosenman by Samuel B. Hand
Crossroads to Israel by Christopher Sykes
Das Wesen des Judentums von Leo Baeck
David E. Lilienthal: The Journey of an American Liberal by Steven Neuse
Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews by Leonard Baker
Dealers and Dreamers: A New Look at the New Deal by Joseph Lash
Decision at the Chesapeake by Harold Larrabee
Defying Hitler by Sebastian Haffner
Destiny's Journey by Alfred Döblin
Dibs : Développement de la personnalité grâce à la thérapie par le jeu par Virginia Axline
Dibs: Die wunderbare Entfaltung eines menschlichen Wesens von Virginia Axline
Dibs: In Search of Self by Virginia Axline
Die Kinder des Holocaust: Gespräche mit Söhnen und Töchtern von Überlebenden von Helen Epstein
Diplomat Among Warriors by Robert Murphy
Dostoevsky by Zweig by Stefan Zweig
Dreifach heimatlos: Die Suche einer Tochter nach der verlorenen Welt ihrer Mutter von Helen Epstein
East of Home by Santha Rama Rau
Edison: A Biography by Matthew Josephson
Edward R. Murrow: An American Original by Joseph E. Persico
Eisenhower’s Lieutenants: The Campaigns of France and Germany, 1944-1945 by Russell F. Weigley
Émigré New York: French Intellectuals in Wartime Manhattan, 1940-1944 by Jeffrey Mehlman
Enrico Fermi, Physicist by Emilio Segrè
Enrico Fermi, fisico di Emilio Segrè
Erasmus of Rotterdam by Stefan Zweig
Escape Through the Pyrenees by Lisa Fittko
Every Spy A Prince: The Complete History of Israel’s Intelligence Community by Dan Raviv and Yossi Melman
Exiled in Paradise: German Refugee Artists and Intellectuals in America from the 1930s to the Present by Anthony Heilbut
Explorer of the Universe: A Biography of George Ellery Hale by Helen Wright
Failure of a Revolution: Germany 1918-1919 by Sebastian Haffner
Father Land: A Study of Authoritarianism in the German Family by Bertram Schaffner
Felix Frankfurter by Liva Baker
Fleet Admiral King: A Naval Record by Ernest J. King and Walter Muir Whitehill
For Jerusalem: A Life by Teddy Kollek and Amos Kollek
Founder: A Portrait of the First Rothschild and His Time by Amos Elon
France and the Dreyfus Affair: A Documentary History by Michael Burns
François Truffaut by Annette Insdorf
Franz Werfel: A Life in Prague, Vienna, and Hollywood by Peter Stephan Junk
Freud by Zweig by Stefan Zweig
Fritz Haber: Chemist, Nobel Laureate, German, Jew by Dietrich Stoltzenberg
From My Life: The Memoirs of Richard Willstätter by Richard Willstätter
From That Place and Time: A Memoir, 1938-1947 by Lucy S. Dawidowicz
From the American System to Mass Production 1800-1932: The Development of Manufacturing Technology in the United States by David Hounshell
From the Fair by Sholom Aleichem
Furious Improvisation: How the WPA and a Cast of Thousands Made High Art out of Desperate Times by Susan Quinn
George C. Marshall: Education of a General, 1880-1939 by Forrest C. Pogue
George C. Marshall: Ordeal and Hope, 1939-1942 by Forrest C. Pogue
George C. Marshall: Organizer of Victory, 1943-1945 by Forrest C. Pogue
George C. Marshall: Statesman, 1945-1959 by Forrest C. Pogue
George C. Marshall: Soldier-Statesman of the American Century by Mark Stoler
Germany: Jekyll and Hyde by Sebastian Haffner
Getting Through It: My Year of Cancer during Covid by Helen Epstein
Global Mission by Henry Harley “Hap” Arnold
Gustav Mahler by Kurt Blaukopf
Haphazard Reality: Half a Century of Science by Hendrik B.G. Casimir
Harmony and Unity: The Life of Niels Bohr by Niels Blaedel
Harry Hopkins: A Biography by Henry H. Adams
Helmuth von Moltke: A Leader Against Hitler by Michael Balfour and Julian Frisby
Henrik Ibsen by G. Wilson Knight
Henry J. Kaiser: Western Colossus by Albert P. Heiner
Herzl by Amos Elon
Hindsight: An Autobiography by Charlotte Wolff
Homecoming by Joseph Wechsberg
Honorable Justice: The Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes by Sheldon Novick
Hotel Bolivia: The Culture of Memory in a Refuge from Nazism by Leo Spitzer
I Didn’t Say Goodbye by Claudine Vegh
I Was There: The Personal Story of the Chief of Staff to Presidents Roosevelt and Truman Based on His Notes and Diaries Made at the Time by William D. Leahy
Ibsen: A Portrait of the Artist by Hans Heiberg
Ibsen’s Women by Joan Templeton
Ice Cream Man: 25 Years at Toscanini's in Cambridge, Mass by Gus Rancatore
Iconoclast: Abraham Flexner and a Life in Learning by Thomas Neville Bonner
Illustrious Immigrants: The Intellectual Migration from Europe, 1930-41 by Laura Fermi
Impatient Crusader: Florence Kelley’s Life Story by Josephine Clara Goldmark
In and Out of the Ivory Tower: The Autobiography of William L. Langer by William L. Langer
In Search of Sugihara by Hillel Levine
Into the Inferno: The Memoir of a Jewish Paratrooper behind Nazi Lines by Yoel Palgi
Italian Americans: Into the Twilight of Ethnicity by Richard D. Alba
J. Robert Oppenheimer and the American Century by David C. Cassidy
Jacqueline du Pré: A Biography by Carol Easton
James B. Conant: Harvard to Hiroshima and the Making of the Nuclear Age by James Hershberg
Jean Monnet: The First Statesman of Interdependence by François Duchêne
Jerusalem: City of Mirrors by Amos Elon
Jock: The Life and Times of John Hay Whitney by E.J. Kahn, Jr.
Joe Papp: An American Life by Helen Epstein
John D. Rockefeller, Jr.: A Portrait by Raymond Fosdick
John von Neumann: The Scientific Genius Who Pioneered the Modern Computer, Game Theory, Nuclear Deterrence, and Much More by Norman Macrae
Joseph Fouché: Portrait of a Politician by Stefan Zweig
Justice Not Vengeance: Recollections by Simon Wiesenthal
Kitchener: Portrait of an Imperialist by Philip Magnus
Land and Power: The Zionist Resort to Force, 1881-1948 by Anita Shapira
Less Than Slaves: Jewish Forced Labor and the Quest for Compensation by Benjamin B. Ferencz
Lightning Joe: An Autobiography by J. Lawton Collins
Lise Meitner and the Dawn of the Nuclear Age by Patricia Rife
Listen, Hans by Dorothy Thompson
Living History: A Memoir by Chaim Herzog
Lone Wolf: A Biography of Vladimir (Ze’ev) Jabotinsky by Shmuel Katz
Looking Back: Memoir of a Psychoanalyst by Paul Ornstein with Helen Epstein
Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language by Eva Hoffman
Madam Secretary Frances Perkins by George W. Martin
Magellan: Conqueror of the Seas by Stefan Zweig
Making an Exit by Elinor Fuchs
Manhattan Project: The Untold Story of the Making of the Atomic Bomb by Stephane Groueff
Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman by Stefan Zweig
Marie Curie: A Life by Susan Quinn
Married to Stefan Zweig by Friderike Zweig
Mary Stuart by Stefan Zweig
Memoir: How I Read, Write and Use It by Helen Epstein
Memoirs 1925-1950 by George F. Kennan
Memoirs 1950-1963 by George F. Kennan
Mental Healers: Franz Anton Mesmer, Mary Baker Eddy, Sigmund Freud by Stefan Zweig
Meyer Schapiro: Portrait of an Art Historian by Helen Epstein
Millikan’s School: A History of the California Institute of Technology by Judith Goodstein
Miss DeLay: portrait of beloved violin teacher Dorothy DeLay by Helen Epstein
Mobilizing America: Robert P. Patterson and the War Effort, 1940-1945 by Keith Eiler
More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave by Ruth Schwartz Cowan
Mostly Morgenthaus: A Family History by Henry Morgenthau III
Music Talks: the lives of classical musicians by Helen Epstein
My Father’s House by Yigal Allon
No Fixed Abode: A Jewish Odyssey to Africa by Peter Fraenkel
Orde Wingate by Christopher Sykes
Outcast: A Jewish Girl in Wartime Berlin by Inge Deutschkron
Outwitting the Gestapo by Lucie Aubrac
Paper Walls: America and the Refugee Crisis, 1938-1941 by David Wyman
Paul Cézanne by Gerstle Mack
Pillars of Society, Rosmersholm, Little Eyolf, When We Dead Awaken by Henrik Ibsen, translated by Rolf Fjelde
Pioneer’s Progress: An Autobiography by Alvin Johnson
Portrait of a Jew by Albert Memmi
Prague: The Mystical City by Joseph Wechsberg
Prague Farewell (UK edition) by Heda Margolius Kovály
Prisoners Without Trial: Japanese Americans in World War II by Roger Daniels
Professions of a Lucky Jew by Benno Weiser Varon
Prophets Without Honour: Freud, Kafka, Einstein, and Their World by Frederic Grunfeld
Rabi: Scientist & Citizen by John Rigden
Redirecting Science: Niels Bohr, Philanthropy, and the Rise of Nuclear Physics by Finn Aaserud
Rescue in Denmark by Harold Flender
Richthofen: A True History of the Red Baron by William Burrows
Rickover: The Struggle for Excellence by Francis Duncan
Righteous Pilgrim: The Life and Times of Harold L. Ickes, 1874-1952 by T. H. Watkins
Rodin: A Biography by Frederic Grunfeld
Roosevelt and Churchill, 1939-1941: The Partnership That Saved the West by Joseph Lash
Rosa Bonheur: The Artist’s (Auto)biography by Anna Klumpke
Russia and the West Under Lenin and Stalin by George F. Kennan
Sakharov: A Biography by Richard Lourie
Scientists Against Time by James Phinney Baxter III
Scrivere la vita di Helen Epstein
Sensation Fair: Tales of Prague by Egon Erwin Kisch
Sergei Prokofiev: A Biography by Harlow Robinson
Shanghai Refuge: A Memoir of the World War II Jewish Ghetto by Ernest Heppner
Shield of David: The Story of Israel’s Armed Forces by Yigal Allon
Soldiers of the Night: The Story of the French Resistance by David Schoenbrun
Son of the Wilderness: The Life of John Muir by Linnie Marsh Wolfe
Speaking to My Country by Jan Masaryk
Spies in the Promised Land: Isser Harel and the Israeli Secret Service by Michael Bar-Zohar
Steinmetz: Engineer and Socialist by Ronald Kline
Storia di Dibs by Virginia Axline
Sumner Welles: FDR’s Global Strategist by Benjamin Welles
Supplying the Troops: General Somervell and American Logistics in World War II by John Kennedy Ohl
Surrender on Demand by Varian Fry
Swimming Across by Andrew Grove
Swope of G.E.: The Story of Gerard Swope and General Electric in American Business by David Loth
The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust, 1941-1945 by David Wyman
The Affair: The Case of Alfred Dreyfus by Jean-Denis Bredin
The Agency: The Rise and Decline of the CIA by John Ranelagh
The Ailing Empire: Germany from Bismarck to Hitler by Sebastian Haffner
The Air War, 1939-1945 by Richard Overy
The American College and University: A History by Frederick Rudolph
The American Colonies: From Settlement to Independence by R.C. Simmons
The Architect of Genocide: Himmler and the Final Solution by Richard Breitman
The Autobiography of Robert A. Millikan by Robert A. Millikan
The Brandeis-Frankfurter Connection: The Secret Political Activities of Two Supreme Court Justices by Bruce Allen Murphy
The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America’s Hospital System by Charles E. Rosenberg
The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti: A Critical Analysis for Lawyers and Laymen by Felix Frankfurter
The Chinese of America by Jack Chen
The Colonel: The Life and Wars of Henry Stimson, 1867-1950 by Godfrey Hodgson
The Colonizer and the Colonized by Albert Memmi
The Death of an American Jewish Community: A Tragedy of Good Intentions by Hillel Levine and Lawrence Harmon
The Dream Maker: William C. Durant, Founder of General Motors by Bernard A. Weisberger
The Edge of the Sword: Israel’s War of Independence 1947-1949 by Netanel Lorch
The Emissary: A Life of Enzo Sereni by Ruth Bondy
The Essence of Judaism by Leo Baeck
The Gate: The True Story of the Design and Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge by John van der Zee
The Good Marriage: How and Why Love Lasts by Judith Wallerstein and Sandra Blakeslee
The Griffin: The Greatest Untold Espionage Story of World War II by Arnold Kramish
The Holocaust, the French, and the Jews by Susan Zuccotti
The Hunting of the Quark: A True Story of Modern Physics by Michael Riordan
The Impossible Takes Longer by Vera Weizmann
The Israelis: Founders and Sons by Amos Elon
The Jews of Vienna in the Age of Franz Joseph by Robert S. Wistrich
The Joy of Insight: Passions of a Physicist by Victor Weisskopf
The Land Divided: A History of the Panama Canal and Other Isthmian Canal Projects by Gerstle Mack
The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846-1876 by Robert V. Bruce
The Liberation of the Jew by Albert Memmi
The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud by Ernest Jones
The Long Half-Lives of Love and Trauma by Helen Epstein
The Making of Israel’s Army by Yigal Allon
The Man Who Wrote Mozart: The Extraordinary Life of Lorenzo Da Ponte by Anthony Holden
The Masaryks: The Making of Czechoslovakia by Zbyněk Zeman
The Master of Light: A Biography of Albert A. Michelson by Dorothy Michelson Livingston
The Meaning of Hitler by Sebastian Haffner
The Merchant Bankers by Joseph Wechsberg
The Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Memoirs by Simon Wiesenthal and Joseph Wechsberg
The Neutron and the Bomb: A Biography of Sir James Chadwick by Andrew Brown
The Opera by Joseph Wechsberg
The Paper: The Life and Death of the New York Herald Tribune by Richard Kluger
The Past Has Another Pattern: Memoirs by George W. Ball
The Pill, Pygmy Chimps, and Degas' Horse by Carl Djerassi
The Pillar of Salt by Albert Memmi
The Port Jews of Habsburg Trieste: Absolutist Politics and Enlightenment Culture by Lois Dubin
The Press and Politics in Israel: The Jerusalem Post from 1932 to the Present by Erwin Frenkel
The Question by Henri Alleg
The Right to Heresy: Castellio Against Calvin by Stefan Zweig
The Rise and Fall of Prussia by Sebastian Haffner
The Rise of Robert Millikan: Portrait of a Life in American Science by Robert Kargon
The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty by Peter Collier and David Horowitz
The Rothschilds: A Family Portrait by Frederic Morton
The Schlumberger Adventure by Anne Gruner Schlumberger
The Shadow Warriors: O.S.S. and the Origins of the C.I.A. by Bradley F. Smith
The Shakespeare & Company Actor Training Experience by Tina Packer
The Struggle for Palestine by J.C. Hurewitz
The Struggle with the Daemon: Hölderlin, Kleist, Nietzsche by Stefan Zweig
The Study of Instinct by Nikolaas Tinbergen
The Turning Point: Thirty-Five Years in this Century, the Autobiography of Klaus Mann by Klaus Mann
The Uprooted: The Epic Story of the Great Migrations That Made the American People by Oscar Handlin
The Vienna I Knew: Memories of a European Childhood by Joseph Wechsberg
The Wild Place by Kathryn Hulme
The Wind and Beyond: Theodore von Kármán, Pioneer in Aviation and Pathfinder in Space by Theodore von Kármán with Lee Edson
The World of Swope by E.J. Kahn, Jr.
The World of Walther Nernst: The Rise and Fall of German Science 1864-1941 by Kurt Mendelssohn
The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig
Three Days: An account of the last days of the British Mandate and the birth of Israel by Zeev Sharef
Three Intellectuals in Politics: Blum, Rathenau, Marinetti by James Joll
Three Masters: Balzac, Dickens, Dostoevsky by Stefan Zweig
Tina Packer Builds A Theater by Helen Epstein
Toulouse-Lautrec by Gerstle Mack
Trees: For Shelter and Shade, For Memory and Magic by Charles Fenyvesi
Trial and Error: The Autobiography of Chaim Weizmann by Chaim Weizmann
Trujillo: The Life and Times of a Caribbean Dictator by Robert D. Crassweller
Two Rothschilds and the Land of Israel by Simon Schama
Under A Cruel Star: A Life in Prague 1941-1968 by Heda Margolius Kovály
Villard: The Life and Times of an American Titan by Alexandra Villard de Borchgrave and John Cullen
Voice of Israel by Abba Eban
Walls: Resisting the Third Reich — One Woman’s Story by Hiltgunt Zassenhaus
War in Peacetime: The History and Lessons of Korea by J. Lawton Collins
War in the Modern World by Theodore Ropp
What Little I Remember by Otto Robert Frisch
When Angels Fooled the World: Rescuers of Jews in Wartime Hungary by Charles Fenyvesi
When the World Was Whole: Three Centuries of Memories by Charles Fenyvesi
Where She Came From by Helen Epstein
Willis R. Whitney, General Electric and the Origins of U.S. Industrial Research by George Wise
Winston & Clementine: The Triumphs & Tragedies of the Churchills by Richard Hough
Witness to History: 1929-1969 by Charles E. Bohlen
Witness to Power: The Life of Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy by Henry H. Adams
Woodrow Wilson and Colonel House: A Personality Study by Alexander and Juliette George
Working with Roosevelt by Samuel I. Rosenman
