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Nonfiction The Archive Thief: The Man Who Salvaged French Jewish History in the Wake of the Holocaust Lisa Moses Leff
Essay My Wallenberg Education in Budapest, Stockholm, and Moscow Earlier this week, Alan Lelchuk wrote about meeting Daniel Pagliansky, Wallenberg’s KGB interrogator. Lelchuk is the author of the acclaimed novels, American… Alan Lelchuk May 6, 2015
Nonfiction Social Concern and Left Politics in Jewish American Art, 1880 – 1940 Matthew Baigell
Essay An Introduction to Jan Karski by Joshua MuravchikFew individuals risked more to try to save the Jews from the Holocaust than Jan Karski, and yet what makes his actions most amazing was that the cause of… Joshua Muravchik April 17, 2015
Nonfiction Masorah and Text Criticism in the Early Modern Mediterranean: Moshe Ibn Zabara and Menahem De Lonzano Jordan S. Penkower
Interview Interview: Eric Lichtblau by Elise CooperThe Nazis Next Door by Eric Lichtblau is a compelling reminder of how quickly man’s inhumanity to man has been forgotten. Many in the FBI, CIA, the… Elise Cooper April 2, 2015
Nonfiction The Kasztner Report: The Report of the Budapest Jewish Rescue Committee, 1942 – 1945 Rezső Kasztner; edited by László Karsai and Judit Molnár
Nonfiction The Jew Who Defeated Hitler: Henry Morgenthau Jr., FDR, and How We Won the War Peter Moreira
Nonfiction To the Gates of Jerusalem: The Diaries and Papers of James G. McDonald, 1945 – 1947 James G. McDonald; Goda, McDonald Stewart, Hochberg, and Breitman, eds.
