BOOKS JEWISH HISTORY


Abernethy, Arthur Talmage, The Jew a Negro: Being a Study of the Jewish Ancestry from an Impartial Standpoint, Martino Fine Books, 2019

 

Acho, Emmanuel, Noa Tishby, Uncomfortable Conversations with a Jew, S&S/Simon Element, 2025

 

Adams, Hannah, The History of the Jews: From the Destruction of Jerusalem to the Present Time (Illustrated), Independently published, 2026

 

Aeon History, A Concise History of the Jews: The People Who Wrestled with God, Ghettos, and Genocide to Achieve Modern Statehood, Aeon History, 2024

 

Ahoy Publications, Culture of the Jews: 101 Notable Jewish Cultural Traditions, Ahoy Publications, 2023

 

Ahuvia, Mika, On My Right Michael, On My Left Gabriel: Angels in Ancient Jewish Culture, University of California Press, 2021

 

Author: Dodds, Jerrilynn D., The Arts of Intimacy: Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Making of Castilian Culture, Yale University Press, 2009

 

Baddiel, David, Jews Don’t Count, TLS Books, 2022

 

Bar, Eitan, Read Like a Jew: 8 Rules of Basic Bible Interpretation for the Christian (Recovering the Original Gospel Series), Independently published, 2023

 

Bar, Eitan, The Forbidden Chapter: A Hassidic Jew's Journey from Orthodox Judaism to Christianity (An Educational Novel) (Jewish Perspective), Independently published, 2023

 

Bar, Eitan, Why Don't Jews Believe in Jesus: A Jewish-Christian Unfolds the Great Mystery (Jewish Perspective), Independently published, 2023

 

Barclay, John M. G. M. G., Jews in the Mediterranean Diaspora: From Alexander to Trajan (323 BCE–117 CE) (Hellenistic Culture and Society) (Volume 33), University of California Press, 1999

 

Bartal, Israel, Chaya Naor, The Jews of Eastern Europe, 1772-1881 (Jewish Culture and Contexts), University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006

 

Benbassa, Esther, The Jews of France: A History from Antiquity to the Present, Princeton University Press, 2001

 

Biale, David, Cultures of the Jews: A New History, Schocken, 2002

 

Botticini, Maristella, Zvi Eckstein, The Chosen Few: How Education Shaped Jewish History, 70-1492 (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World), Princeton University Press, 2014

 

Boyarin, Daniel, A Radical Jew: Paul and the Politics of Identity (Contraversions: Critical Studies in Jewish Literature, Culture, and Society) (Volume 1), University of California Press, 1997

 

Brenner, Michael, Jeremiah Riemer, A Short History of the Jews, Princeton University Press, 2012

 

Brodkin, Karen, How Jews Became White Folks and What That Says About Race in America, Rutgers University Press, 1998

 

Brossat, Alain, Sylvia Klingberg, Revolutionary Yiddishland: A History of Jewish Radicalism, Verso, 2017

 

Butnick, Stephanie, Liel Leibovitz, The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia: From Abraham to Zabar’s and Everything in Between , Artisan, 2019

 

Cahill, Thomas, The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels (The Hinges of History), Anchor Books/Nan A Talese, 1999

 

Captivating History, History of the Jews: A Captivating Guide to Jewish History, Starting from the Ancient Israelites through Roman Rule to World War 2 (History of Judaism), Captivating History, 2021

 

Carroll, James, Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews, A History, Mariner Books, 2002

 

Cosgrove, Elliot, For Such a Time as This: On Being Jewish Today, Harvest, 2024

 

den Arend, Paul, Guide to the Jewish Ghetto in Rome: The places, the history and the life of Roman Jews, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

 

Denby, David, Eminent Jews: Bernstein, Brooks, Friedan, Mailer, Henry Holt and Co., 2025

 

Dimont, Max I., Jews, God, and History, (Mass Market Paperback) Signet, 2004

 

Diner, Hasia R., Opening Doors: The Unlikely Alliance Between the Irish and the Jews in America, St. Martin's Press, 2024

 

Diner, Hasia R., The Jews of the United States, 1654 to 2000 (Jewish Communities in the Modern World) (Volume 4), University of California Press, 2006

 

Donin, Hayim H., To Be a Jew: A Guide to Jewish Observance in Contemporary Life, Basic Books, 2019

 

Eby, Aaron, Biblically Kosher: A Messianic Jewish Perspective on Kashrut, First Fruits of Zion, Incorporated, 2012

 

Efron, John, Steven Weitzman, The Jews, Routledge, 2018

 

Elmaleh, Rapha'el, George Ricketts, Jews Under Moroccan Skies: Two Thousand Years of Jewish Life, Gaon Web, 2012

 

Fast, Howard, The Jews: Story of a People, Random House Publishing Group, 1992

 

Federow, Rabbi Stuart, The Real Reasons Why Jews Don’t Believe in Jesus, Design Marvel, 2025

 

Feiner, Shmuel, Chaya Naor, The Jewish Enlightenment (Jewish Culture and Contexts), University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011

 

Feld, Edward, The Book of Revolutions: The Battles of Priests, Prophets, and Kings That Birthed the Torah, The Jewish Publication Society, 2022

 

Fernandes, Edna, The Last Jews of Kerala: The 2,000-Year History of India's Forgotten Jewish Community, Skyhorse, 2015

 

Fernandez-Morera, Dario, The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise: Muslims, Christians, and Jews under Islamic Rule in Medieval Spain, ISI Books, 2016

 

Fishberg, Maurice, The Jews: A Study of Race and Environment, Legare Street Press, 2022

 

Flavius, Josephus, The Antiquities of the Jews: Complete and Unabridged: The Complete First-Century History of the Jewish People, Unabridged Books, 2011

 

Fredriksen, Paula, When Christians Were Jews: The First Generation, Yale University Press, 2019

 

Freeman, Ben M., The Jews: An Indigenous People, No Pasaran Media, 2025

 

Gutierrez, Juan Marcos Bejarano, Secret Jews: The Complex Identity of Crypto-Jews and Crypto-Judaism, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

 

Gutierrez, Juan Marcos Bejarano, The Jews of Iberia: A Short History, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

 

Gutierrez, Rabbi Juan Bejarano, Who is a Jew?: An Introduction to a Complex Question (Introduction to Judaism Series), CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

 

Harrelson, Walter, Randall M. Falk, Jews & Christians: A Troubled Family, Abingdon Press, 1990

 

Harvey, Richard S., Luther and the Jews: Putting Right the Lies, Cascade Books, 2017

 

Hirschman, Elizabeth Caldwell, Donald N. Yates, Jews and Muslims in British Colonial America: A Genealogical History, McFarland, 2012

 

Hirschman, Elizabeth Caldwell, Donald N. Yates, The Early Jews and Muslims of England and Wales: A Genetic and Genealogical History, McFarland, 2014

 

Horn, Dara, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present, W. W. Norton & Company, 2022

 

Hurwitz, Sarah, As a Jew: Reclaiming Our Story from Those Who Blame, Shame, and Try to Erase Us – A Defiant Memoir of Heritage, Identity, and Antisemitism, HarperOne, 2025

 

Johnson, Paul,  A History of the Jews: A Study of Jewish History and Influence Across Millennia, Harper Perennial, 1988

 

Jortner, Adam, A Promised Land: Jewish Patriots, the American Revolution, and the Birth of Religious Freedom, Oxford University Press, 2024

 

Josephus,  Flavius, William Whiston, Josephus The Complete Works: Encounter the World and Traditions that Jesus Knew, Thomas Nelson, 2003

 

Josephus, Flavious, Antiquities of the Jews, Unabridged Books, 2011

 

Josephus, Flavius, The War of the Jews: The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem (complete edition, 7 books), IAP, 2009

 

Josephus, Flavius, William Whiston, The Wars of the Jews, Independently published, 2024

 

Kaufman, Jonathan, The Last Kings of Shanghai: The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China, Penguin Books, 2021

 

Keller, Sharon R. THE JEWS: A Treasury of Art and Literature, Beaux Arts, 1992

 

Kertzer, Morris N., What is a Jew?, Touchstone, 1996

 

Krauskopf, Joseph, Jews and Moors in Spain, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

 

Kreitner, Richard, Fear No Pharaoh: American Jews, the Civil War, and the Fight to End Slavery, Picador, 2026

 

Kutner, Rob, The Jews: 5,000 Years and Counting, Wicked Son, 2025

 

Lambert, Josh, The Literary Mafia: Jews, Publishing, and Postwar American Literature, Yale University Press, 2022

 

Lebrecht, Norman, Genius & Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947, Scribner 2020

 

Levenson, Alan T., An Introduction to Modern Jewish Thinkers: From Spinoza to Soloveitchik, Rowman & Littlefield, 2006

 

Levine, Amy-Jill, The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus, HarperOne, 2007

 

Lichtenstein, Rabbi Isaac, D. Thomas Lancaster, The Everlasting Jew (Messianic Luminary Series), First Fruits of Zion, 2013

 

Mack, Stan, The Story of the Jews : A 4,000-Year Adventure, Jewish Lights, 2001

 

Magid, Shaul, The Necessity of Exile: Essays from a Distance (Political Imagination), Ayin Press, 2023

 

Maranzenboim, Miriam, Josephus: The History of the Jews Condensed in Simple English, JETLAUNCH, 2018

 

Menocal, Maria Rosa, The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain, Little, Brown Paperbacks, 2003

 

Mnookin, Robert H, The Jewish American Paradox: Embracing Choice in a Changing World, Platform Books, LLC, 2023

 

Mocatta, Frederic David, The Jews of Spain and Portugal and the Inquisition 1877, Facsimile Publisher, 2015

 

Podhoretz, Norman, Why Are Jews Liberals?, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2010

 

Poe, Richard, Noor Bin Ladin, How the British Invented Communism (And Blamed It on the Jews), Richard\Poe, 2024

 

Roth, Joseph, Michael Hofmann, The Wandering Jews, W. W. Norton & Company, 2001

 

Sáenz-Badillos, Angel, John Elwolde, A History of the Hebrew Language (Volume 0), Cambridge University Press, 1996

 

Sand, Shlomo, Yael Lotan (Translator), The Invention of the Jewish People,Verso, 2020

 

Sarna, Jonathan D., Benjamin Shapell, Lincoln and the Jews: A History, With a New Preface, NYU Press, 2025

 

Schama, Simon, The Story of the Jews Volume Two: Belonging: 1492-1900, Ecco, 2020

 

Scheindlin, Raymond P., Short History of the Jewish People: From Legendary Times to Modern Statehood, Oxford University Press, 2000   


Schrader, Emily, Blake Flayton, 10 Things Every Jew Should Know Before They Go to College: An Illustrated Guide, Griffith Moon Publishing, 2025

 

Schulman, Daniel, The Money Kings: The Epic Story of the Jewish Immigrants Who Transformed Wall Street and Shaped Modern America, Vintage, 2024

 

Schwartz, Matthew B., Jews in America: The First 500 Years, Resource Publications, 2019

 

Shore, Raphael, Who's Afraid of the Big, Bad Jew: Learning to Love the Lessons of Jew-Hatred, Beverly House Press, 2025

 

Strauss, Barry, Jews vs. Rome: Two Centuries of Rebellion Against the World's Mightiest Empire, Simon & Schuster, 2026

 

Suberman, Stella, The Jew Store, Algonquin Books, 2001

 

Telushkin, Joseph, Jewish Literacy Revised Ed , William Morrow, 2008

 

Tenenbom, Tuvia, Catch The Jew!: Eye-opening education - You will never look at Israel the same way again, Gefen Publishing House, 2015

 

Trachtenberg, Joshua, Moshe Idel, Jewish Magic and Superstition: A Study in Folk Religion, Martino Fine Books, 2013

 

Twain, Mark, Concerning The Jews, Independently published, 2024

 

Ujifusa, Steven, The Last Ships from Hamburg: Business, Rivalry, and the Race to Save Russia’s Jews on the Eve of World War I, Harper Perennial, 2025

 

Ungar-Sargon, Batya, The Jews and the Left, Broadside Books, 2026

 

Wellman, Billy, History of the Jews: An Enthralling Guide from Ancient Times to the Present, Billy Wellman, 2023

 

Yuval, Israel Jacob Jacob, Jonathan Chipman, Barbara Harshav, Two Nations in Your Womb: Perceptions of Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, University of California Press, 2008

 



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