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Nonfiction Werner Scholem: A German Life (Jewish Culture and Contexts) Mirjam Zadoff; Dona Geyer, trans.
Cookbook The German-Jewish Cookbook: Recipes and History of a Cuisine Sonya Gropman Gabrielle Rossmer Gropman
Nonfiction Stumbling on History: An Art Project Compels a Small German Town to Face Its Past Fern Schumer Chapman
News The Holocaust Book Award in Memory of Ernest W. Michel Named for 2017 JBC Staff March 7, 2017
Essay What My Nazi Great-Grandfather Taught Me About the Obligation to Act Ursula Werner March 6, 2017
Essay Lion Feuchtwanger: An Author Never Out of Print But No Longer Known Alan Judd February 1, 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
Interview Interview: Dina Gold with Maron L. WaxmanAmid its account of the legal battle to recover ownership — or at least the recognition of ownership — of the building at Krausenstrasse… Maron L. Waxman March 22, 2016
Essay Max Wisen’s Tailor Shop Christoph Kreutzmüller is the author of Final Sale in Berlin: The Destruction of Jewish Commercial Activity 1930 – 1945, a history of the German foreclosure of… Christoph Kreutzmüller March 11, 2016
Nonfiction Final Sale in Berlin: The Destruction of Jewish Commercial Activity 1930 – 1945 Christoph Kreutzmüller
