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    World War II

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    Adol­fo Kamin­sky: A Forg­er’s Life
    Sarah Kaminsky; Mike Mitchell, trans.
    Essay

    Spies — in the Gala­pa­gos Islands?

    Alli­son Amend
    July 27, 2016
    Essay

    Here’s What I Know About the Real Frances Conway

    With the recent release of her new nov­el, Enchant­ed Islands, Alli­son Amend is guest blog­ging for the Jew­ish Book Coun­cil this week as part of the Vis­it­ing Scribe series…
    Alli­son Amend
    July 25, 2016
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    Courage & Defi­ance: Sto­ries of Spies, Sabo­teurs, and Sur­vivors in World War II Denmark
    Deborah Hopkinson
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    Steal­ing Nazi Secrets in World War II: An Inter­ac­tive Adventure
    Elizabeth Raum
    Cover of Girl: My Childhood and the Second World War
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    Girl: My Child­hood and the Sec­ond World War
    Alona Frankel
    Cover of Asylum: A Survivor's Flight from Nazi-Occupied Vienna Through Wartime France
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    Asy­lum: A Sur­vivor’s Flight from Nazi-Occu­pied Vien­na Through Wartime France
    Moriz Scheyer, translated and with an epilogue by P.N. Singer
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    Jews in the Rub­ble: A Read­ing List

    Ear­li­er this week, Pol­ly Zavadi­vk­er wrote about S. Ansky, Isaac Babel, and Vasi­ly Grossman’s chron­i­cles of the cat­a­stro­phe of the Russ­ian twen­ti­eth cen­tu­ry. She…
    Pol­ly Zavadivker
    April 20, 2016
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    Paper Hearts
    Meg Wiviott
    Essay

    On Writ­ing Cat­a­stro­phe: Jew­ish Chron­i­clers of War in 20th-Cen­tu­ry Russia

    Pol­ly Zavadi­vk­er is the edi­tor and trans­la­tor of the recent­ly pub­lished 1915 Diary of S. An-sky: A Russ­ian Jew­ish Writer at the East­ern Front. She is blog­ging…
    Pol­ly Zavadivker
    April 18, 2016
    Essay

    Before Pearl Harbor

    Kim Brooks is the author of The House­guest: A Nov­el, out tomor­row from Coun­ter­point Press. She is blog­ging here all week as part of the Vis­it­ing Scribe series on The…
    Kim Brooks
    April 11, 2016
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    Hell Before Their Very Eyes: Amer­i­can Sol­diers Lib­er­ate Con­cen­tra­tion Camps, April 1945
    John C. McManus
    Cover of Europe on Trial: The Story of Collaboration, Resistance, and Retribution during World War II
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    Europe on Tri­al: The Sto­ry of Col­lab­o­ra­tion, Resis­tance, and Ret­ri­bu­tion dur­ing World War II
    István Deák; Norman M. Naimark, fwd.
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    The Ger­man War: A Nation Under Arms 1939 – 1945
    Nicholas Stargardt
    Essay

    The Bat­tle for the Books

    With the release of Stolen Words: The Nazi Plun­der of Jew­ish Books, author Rab­bi Mark Glick­man is guest blog­ging all week as part of the Vis­it­ing Scribe series here on The…
    Mark Glick­man
    February 1, 2016
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    The Crime and the Silence: Con­fronting the Mas­sacre of Jews in Wartime Jedwabne
    Anna Bikont, Alissa Valles, trans.
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