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Interview Interview: Nancy K. Miller by Tahneer OksmanNancy K. Miller’s new memoir, Breathless: An American Girl in Paris, recounts the years that the author spent abroad after graduating from Barnard… Tahneer Oksman December 9, 2013
Essay Charles Belfoure on Cutting Material from His Novel Charles Belfoure is the author of the debut novel The Paris Architect (Sourcebooks Landmark), an October Indie Next Pick and National Reading Group Month Selection. He… Charles Belfoure October 15, 2013
Essay The French During the Holocaust and the Complications of History Earlier this week, Lauren Grodstein wrote about her strange relationship with her son’s all-American looks. Her most recent novel, The Explanation for Everything,… Lauren Grodstein August 29, 2013
Interview Interview: Maryann Macdonald by Michal H. MalenMaryann Macdonald is the author of Odette’s Secrets (Bloomsbury).Michal H. Malen: Please tell us some more about the real Odette Meyers, the person on… Michal Hoschander Malen July 1, 2013
Recommended Reading The Jews of Poland: Recollections and Recipes by Edouard de Pomiane Last week, Rebecca Miller wrote about Gluckel of Hameln. She has been sharing texts that shed light on the history of Jewish life in France, the setting of her new… Rebecca Miller May 23, 2013
Essay Rebecca Miller on Gluckel of Hameln This week on the Visiting Scribe, Rebecca Miller will be sharing texts that shed light on Jewish life in eighteenth-century France, the setting of her new novel,… Rebecca Miller May 13, 2013
Essay The Mishpocheh Connection Jonathan Kirsch, book editor of The Jewish Journal, contributes book reviews to the print and online editions and blogs at www.jewishjournal.com/twelvetwelve.… Jonathan Kirsch May 10, 2013
Essay A Scandalous Theory of Defense and Herschel Grynszpan Jonathan Kirsch, book editor of The Jewish Journal, contributes book reviews to the print and online editions and blogs at www.jewishjournal.com/twelvetwelve.… Jonathan Kirsch May 8, 2013
Nonfiction The Marcel Network: How One French Couple Saved 527 Children from the Holocaust Fred Coleman
Nonfiction Hunting Down the Jews: Vichy, the Nazis and Mafia Collaborators in Provence, 1942 – 1944 Isaac Levendal and Bernard Weisz; Serge Klarsfeld, fwd.
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Jacob’s Folly Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterLast week, Farrar, Straus and Giroux published Rebecca Miller’s new novel Jacob’s Folly, “a rollicking, ingenious, saucy book,… Naomi Firestone-Teeter March 13, 2013
Essay The Presence of the Past Earlier this week, Kati Marton wrote about the French Jewish family the Camondos and Paris’s black marble plaques. She has been blogging here all week for Jewish… Kati Marton August 31, 2012
Essay Remembering the Camondos Earlier this week, Kati Marton wrote about Paris’s black marble plaques and the subject of race in France. She will be blogging here all week for Jewish Book Council and… Kati Marton August 29, 2012
Nonfiction Of No Interest to the Nation: A Jewish Family in France, 1925 – 1945: A Memoir Gilbert Michlin; Afterword by Zeev Sternhell
