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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
Nonfiction A Most Dangerous Book. Tacitus’s Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich Christopher Krebs
Nonfiction Broken Threads: The Destruction of the Jewish Fashion Industry in Germany and Austria Roberta S. Kremer
Nonfiction The Forger: An Extraordinary Story of Survival in Wartime Berlin Cioma Schonhaus; Alan Bance, trans.
Nonfiction Shattered Spaces: Encountering Jewish Ruins in Postwar Germany and Poland Michael Meng
Nonfiction Four Girls From Berlin: A True Story of a Friendship That Defied The Holocaust Marianne Meyerhoff
Nonfiction Red Orchestra: The Story of the Berlin Underground and the Circle of Friends who Resisted Hitler Anne Nelson