Product Description: In the winter of 1892 the new instructor of physical training at Smith College, a diminutive young woman with a heavy accent, introduced her students to an adaptation of James Naismith's new game of Basket Ball. An immediate if unexpected success, the game spread to other women's schools across the country, and soon its founder, Senda Berenson (1868 1954), was called upon to codify its distinctive set of gender-specific rules...read more

Reopening a long-closed homicide case involving the rape and murder of the teenage daughter of a prominent New Mexico family, the author reveals that the black man who was executed for the 1931 crime was very likely innocent. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Following the first volume that traced Lewisohn's life to 1934, this text portrays Lewisohn's last decades as an outspoken opponent of Nazi Germany, a leading promoter of Jewish resettlement in Palestine, and as one of the earliest voices advocating Jewish renewal in America. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A biography of Ludwig Lewisohn covering the years 1882 to 1934. Lewisohn was an imposing literary figure in America and Europe during the first half of the 20th century, who struggled with feelings of alienation in Christian America that were gradually resolved by his developing Jewish identity...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Meyer Levin`s overtly `Jewish` dramatization of Anne Frank`s Diary was rejected in favor of a play with a more universal message, conceived by Lillian Hellman and others in her circle. Levin was convinced that a conspiracy existed to delete the Jewish elements from the diary...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)