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Nonfiction Asylum: A Survivor’s Flight from Nazi-Occupied Vienna Through Wartime France Moriz Scheyer, translated and with an epilogue by P.N. Singer
Recommended Reading 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
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
Nonfiction Hell Before Their Very Eyes: American Soldiers Liberate Concentration Camps, April 1945 John C. McManus
Nonfiction Europe on Trial: The Story of Collaboration, Resistance, and Retribution during World War II István Deák; Norman M. Naimark, fwd.
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
Nonfiction The Crime and the Silence: Confronting the Massacre of Jews in Wartime Jedwabne Anna Bikont, Alissa Valles, trans.
Nonfiction Unlikely Warrior: A Jewish Soldier in Hitler’s Army Georg Rauch, Phyllis Rauch, trans.
Essay Passing the Buck, Berlin Style Earlier this week, Dina Gold chronicled a difficult encounter at her first author event for Stolen Legacy: Nazi Theft and the Quest for Justice at Krausenstrasse… Dina Gold October 14, 2015
Nonfiction Underground in Berlin: A Young Woman’s Extraordinary Tale of Survival in the Heart of Nazi Germany Marie Jalowicz Simon
Nonfiction Hi Hitler!: How the Nazi Past is Being Normalized in Contemporary Culture Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
