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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.)
Nonfiction Jews Welcome Coffee: Tradition and Innovation in Early Modern Germany Robert Liberles
Essay Stolpersteine On Monday, Leslie Maitland wrote about artist Gunter Demnig’s Stolpersteine project and reconnecting branches of her family separated by the Diaspora of the Nazi… Leslie Maitland May 29, 2012
Essay Stumbling Stones Leslie Maitland is the author of Crossing the Borders of Time: A True Story of War, Exile, and Love Reclaimed. She will be blogging here all week for Jewish Book… Leslie Maitland May 28, 2012