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Nonfiction A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination From Persecution to Genocide Alon Confino
Nonfiction Against the Grain: Jewish Intellectuals in Hard Times Ezra Mendelsohn, Stefani Hoffman & Richard I. Cohen, eds.
Nonfiction A Fatal Balancing Act: The Dilemma of the Reich Association of Jews in Germany, 1939 – 1945 Beate Meyer
Nonfiction 50 Children: One Ordinary American Couple’s Extraordinary Rescue Mission into the Heart of Nazi Germany Steven Pressman
Essay Falling in Love in Cologne Earlier this week, Lily Brett wrote about her beach memories, her love for pens and pencils and why she didn’t become a lawyer. Her newest book, Lola Bensky:… Lily Brett October 25, 2013
Nonfiction No Justice in Germany: The Breslau Diaries, 1933 – 1941 Willy Cohn; Norbert Conrads, ed; Kenneth Kronenberg, trans.
Essay When You’re A Jet You Stay A Jet Earlier this week, Kathy Ebel wrote about Nice Jewish Girl protagonists from New York City. Her first novel, Claudia Silver to the Rescue (Houghton Mifflin… Kathy Ebel June 19, 2013
Nonfiction A Window on Their World: The Court Diary of Rabbi Hayyim Gundersheim — Frankfurt am Main, 1773 – 1794 Edward Fram
Nonfiction A Mortuary of Books: The Rescue of Jewish Culture after the Holocaust Elisabeth Gallas, Alex Skinner (trans.)
