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Nonfiction They Left It All Behind: Trauma, Loss, and Memory Among Eastern European Jewish Immigrants and Their Children Hannah Hahn
Nonfiction The Sun and Her Stars: Salka Viertel and Hitler’s Exiles in the Golden Age of Hollywood Donna Rifkind
Nonfiction Stepchildren of the Shtetl: The Destitute, Disabled, and Mad of Jewish Eastern Europe, 1800 – 1939 Natan M. Meir
Excerpt Excerpt — Guesthouse for Ganesha Read an excerpt of Judith Teitelman’s Guesthouse for Ganesha Judith Teitelman June 10, 2019
Nonfiction The Last Palace: Europe’s Turbulent Century Through Five Lives and One House Norman Eisen
Nonfiction Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence Paul Robert Magocsi and Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern
Nonfiction American Jewry: Transcending the European Experience Christian Wiese and Cornelia Wilhelm
Nonfiction Extraterritorial Dreams: Europe Citizenship, Sephardi Jews, and the Ottoman Twentieth Century Sarah Abrevaya Stein
Nonfiction Europe on Trial: The Story of Collaboration, Resistance, and Retribution during World War II István Deák; Norman M. Naimark, fwd.
Nonfiction Jewish Honor Courts: Revenge, Retribution, and Reconciliation in Europe and Israel after the Holocaust Laura Jockusch and Gabriel N. Finder, eds.
Essay Two Great Writers of Central Europe Earlier this week, György Spiró shared how the New York Postal Service and the mysterious identity of St. Thomas inspired his novel Captivity. György will be… György Spiró November 20, 2015
Nonfiction European Muslim Antisemitism: Why Young Urban Males Say They Don’t Like Jews Günther Jikeli
