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Nonfiction A Bookshop in Berlin: The Rediscovered Memoir of One Woman’s Harrowing Escape from the Nazis Françoise Frenkel (auth.), Stephanie Smee (trans.), Patrick Modiano (fwd.)
Essay The Beauty of Things: A Family’s Fight for Survival During the Holocaust Ariana Neumann February 17, 2020
Interview A Reminder for Empathy: A Conversation with R. J. Palacio Emily Schneider February 9, 2020
Nonfiction The Converso’s Return: Conversion and Sephardi History in Contemporary Literature and Culture Dalia Kandiyoti
Nonfiction Well Worth Saving: American Universities’ Life-and-Death Decisions on Refugees from Nazi Europe Laurel Leff