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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
Essay Adding Dimension to the Online Database of Jewish Businesses in Berlin 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 10, 2016
Essay Passing the Buck, Berlin Style Earlier this week, Dina Gold chronicled a difficult encounter at her first author event for Stolen Legacy: Nazi Theft and the Quest for Justice at Krausenstrasse… Dina Gold October 14, 2015
Nonfiction Underground in Berlin: A Young Woman’s Extraordinary Tale of Survival in the Heart of Nazi Germany Marie Jalowicz Simon
Interview Interview: Joseph Kanon by Elise CooperLeaving Berlin by Joseph Kanon is a gripping historical thriller. The book’s plot takes place in Berlin four years after the end of World War II.… Elise Cooper August 11, 2015
Nonfiction The Consuming Temple: Jews, Department Stores, and the Consumer Revolution in Germany, 1880 – 1940 Paul Lerner
Essay At the Heart of It Barbara Stark-Nemon is the author of the recently published novel Even in Darkness. She will be blogging here all week for Jewish Book Council’s Visiting Scribe… Barbara Stark-Nemon April 13, 2015
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.
