History and Biography

Edmund deWall
The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance    2010   Amazon

Shmuel Feiner
Moses Mendelssohn: Sage of Modernity (Jewish Lives Series). Translated from Hebrew.   2005   Amazon

Sigmund Freud
Moses and Monotheism. Translated from German.   1939   Amazon

Paul Johnson
A History of the Jews    1987   Amazon

Steven Nadler
A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza’s Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age   2013   Amazon

Sherwin B. Newland
Maimonides (Jewish Encounters Series)   2008   Amazon

Robert Pinsky
The Life of David (Jewish Encounters Series)   2005   Amazon

James B. Pritchard (Ed.)
The Ancient Near East:  An Anthology of Texts and Pictures  (Source book)   2010   Amazon

Simon Schama
The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words, 1000BCE – 1492CE          2013  Amazon

Benedict de Spinoza
Theological-Political Treatise. Translated from Dutch.   1670   Amazon

Volker Ullrich
Hitler: Ascent, 1889-1939. Translated from German.   2016   Amazon

Melvin J. Urofsky
Louis D. Brandeis: A Life.    2012   Amazon

Elie Wiesel
Rashi (Jewish Encounters Series). Translated from French.  2009  Amazon

Jonathan Wilson
Marc Chagall (Jewish Encounters Series)    2007   Amazon