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Essay Rewriting My Family Memoir as a Work of Fiction Andrea Simon’s novel Esfir Is Alive was published earlier this month. She will be guest blogging for the Jewish Book Council all week as part of the Visiting Scribe… Andrea Simon November 28, 2016
Excerpt You Have to Have Been a Refugee Yourself Excerpted from Asylum: A Survivor’s Flight from Nazi-Occupied Vienna Through Wartime France by Moriz ScheyerI know that I will provoke the criticism in some… Moriz Scheyer September 29, 2016
Essay The Stories That Never Leave You Earlier this week, Affinity Konar wrote about her first visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau, the setting of Mischling, after she had already written the book. With the release… Affinity Konar September 9, 2016
Essay Beyond the Birches of Oświęcim Affinity Konar is the author of the novel Mischling and is guest blogging for the Jewish Book Council all week as part of the Visiting Scribe series here on The… Affinity Konar September 6, 2016
Children’s Like Finding My Twin: How an Eighth-Grade Class Reunited Two Holocaust Refugees Fern Schumer Chapman
