Nicholas Winton helped organize Kindertransports that carried young people to safety on the eve of war. 'Nicky & Vera' by author and illustrator Peter Sis now honors his legacy

In 'Empire of Pain,' Patrick Radden Keefe details the humble Jewish immigrant roots of Purdue Pharmaceuticals, and how it is evading justice despite being behind the opioid crisis

27-year-old Emma Goldberg's book 'Life on the Line' offers a look at how newly-minted physicians began their careers in the heart of a global, and frighteningly local, pandemic

Ruth Behar mines family lore for 'Letters From Cuba,' a book for readers ages 8-12 about pre-teen Polish-Jewish girl's solo journey to life in remote sugar plantation town

Author Joshua Cohen hopes readers find the humor in his latest novel - a fictionalized account involving Benzion Netanyahu inspired by true events

In new book, 'The Confidence Men,' author Margalit Fox delves into spiritual trends and psychological mechanisms that enabled brilliant buddies to hoodwink Turkish captors

Declassifying records, author Leah Garrett uncovers amazing story of X Troop, a unit of German-speaking refugee volunteers determined to outwit and outfight the Nazis at all costs

The authors of new book 'A Fortress in Brooklyn' say Hasidim represent an alternate version of the assimilated 'New York Jew' in an old-new shtetl that's a purely American creation

Writer Ulrich Boschwitz fled Germany after pogrom and wrote contemporary account 'The Passenger' before death at sea by a Nazi torpedo. Now rediscovered, it's earning rave reviews

While the aristocracy is often lauded for the July 1944 plot to kill Hitler, evidence in a compensation claim sought by the Hohenzollern house may expose a closet full of skeletons