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Nonfiction The Yellow Star: The Persecution of the Jews in Europe 1933 – 1945 Gerhard Schoenberner
Nonfiction A Portrait of Pacifists: Le Chambon, the Holocaust, and the Lives of André and Magda Trocmé Richard P. Unsworth; Peter I. Rose, fwd.
Nonfiction Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War,1937 – 1948 Madeleine Albright
Nonfiction The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery Captain Witold Pilecki; Jarek Garlinski, trans.
Essay Illusions and Remembering Yesterday, Steve Stern wrote about his decision to teach creative writing in Vilnius. He will be blogging here for the Jewish Book Council and MyJewishLearning… Steve Stern September 5, 2012
Essay A Yiddishist in Vilnius Steve Stern’s most recent book, The Book of Mischief, is now available. He will be blogging here all week for Jewish Book Council and MyJewishLearning.I had fun in… Steve Stern September 4, 2012
Essay The Presence of the Past Earlier this week, Kati Marton wrote about the French Jewish family the Camondos and Paris’s black marble plaques. She has been blogging here all week for Jewish… Kati Marton August 31, 2012
Essay Remembering the Camondos Earlier this week, Kati Marton wrote about Paris’s black marble plaques and the subject of race in France. She will be blogging here all week for Jewish Book Council and… Kati Marton August 29, 2012
Nonfiction Of No Interest to the Nation: A Jewish Family in France, 1925 – 1945: A Memoir Gilbert Michlin; Afterword by Zeev Sternhell
Essay Facing Paris’s Black Marble Plaques Kati Marton’s most recent book, Paris: A Love Story, is now available. She will be blogging here for Jewish Book Council and MyJewishLearning all week.Now… Kati Marton August 27, 2012
Nonfiction Don’t Wave Goodbye: The Children’s Flight From Nazi Persecution to American Freedom Philip K. Jason; Iris Posner, eds.
Nonfiction Lessons and Legacies, Vol. VI: New Currents in Holocaust Research Jeffrey M. Diefendorf, ed.
Nonfiction And Yet I Still Have Dreams: A Story of a Certain Loneliness Joanna Wiszniewicz; Regina Grol, trans.
