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Essay 30 Days, 30 Authors: Matti Friedman, winner of the Natan Book Award Matti Friedman December 7, 2017
Excerpt You Have to Have Been a Refugee Yourself Excerpted from Asylum: A Survivor’s Flight from Nazi-Occupied Vienna Through Wartime France by Moriz ScheyerI know that I will provoke the criticism in some… Moriz Scheyer September 29, 2016
Nonfiction Asylum: A Survivor’s Flight from Nazi-Occupied Vienna Through Wartime France Moriz Scheyer, translated and with an epilogue by P.N. Singer
Nonfiction The Burdens of Brotherhood: Jews and Muslims from North Africa to France Ethan B. Katz
Nonfiction The Archive Thief: The Man Who Salvaged French Jewish History in the Wake of the Holocaust Lisa Moses Leff
Nonfiction A Fifty-Year Silence: Love, War, and a Ruined House in France Miranda Richmond Mouillot
Interview Interview: Tony Schumacher by Elise CooperThe Darkest Hour is an alternate history, a psychological study, and a thriller all rolled into one fantastic book. It begins with Germany… Elise Cooper April 28, 2015
Nonfiction A Good Place to Hide: How One French Village Saved Thousands of Lives During World War II Peter Grose
Interview Interview: Mark Polizzotti on Translating the Work of Patrick Modiano Patrick Modiano, who won the 2014 Nobel Prize for literature, has recently seen a flurry of attention here in the U.S., where he had been relatively unknown until… Beth Kissileff March 6, 2015
