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Nonfiction The Clandestine History of the Kovno Jewish Ghetto Police Anonymous Members of the Kovno Jewish Ghetto Police
Essay How Far Would You Go For Your Passion? Lisa Barr is the author of the award-winning debut novel, Fugitive Colors (Arcade), a suspenseful tale of an artist’s revenge on the “eve” of WWII. Today, she chimes… Lisa Barr March 27, 2014
Interview Interview: Slavko Goldstein by Elise CooperA conversation with Slavko Goldstein about recently published book, 1941: The Year That Keeps Returning (New York Review of Books).Elise Cooper: Do… Elise Cooper March 25, 2014
Essay How the Rabbi Hooked Me In 2009, Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi asked N.Y. Times best-selling author Sara Davidson to talk with him about “The December Project.” He wanted to help people not… Sara Davidson March 24, 2014
Nonfiction Hanns and Rudolf: The True Story of the German Jew Who Tracked Down and Caught the Kommandant of Auschwitz Thomas Harding
Nonfiction How the Jews Defeated Hitler: Exploding the Myth of Jewish Passivity in the Face of Nazism Benjamin Ginsberg
Interview Interview: David Laskin by Elise CooperDavid Laskin’s book, The Family: Three Journeys Into the Heart of the Twentieth Century, is a gripping tale that traces the roots of the author’s… Elise Cooper February 25, 2014
Children’s A Bag of Marbles: The Graphic Novel Joseph Joffo Kris, adaptation; Vincent Bailley, illus.; Edward Gauvin, trans.
Fiction The Commandant of Lubizec: A Novel of the Holocaust and Operation Reinhard Patrick Hicks
