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Cover of The Nazi's Granddaughter: How I Discovered My Grandfather Was a War Criminal
Non­fic­tion
The Naz­i’s Grand­daugh­ter: How I Dis­cov­ered My Grand­fa­ther Was a War Criminal
Sil­via Foti
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Noth­ing the Same, Every­thing Haunt­ed: The Bal­lad of Motl the Cowboy
Gary Barwin
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Chil­dren’s
The Peo­ple’s Painter: How Ben Shahn Fought for Jus­tice With Art
Cynthia Levinson, Evan Turk (Illustrator)
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Res­cue the Sur­viv­ing Souls: The Great Jew­ish Refugee Cri­sis of the Sev­en­teenth Century
Adam Teller
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A Brief His­to­ry of the Orig­i­nal Paper Brigade

Lenore J. Weitzman
June 5, 2017
Essay

The Paper Brigade of Vilnius

Anders Rydell
February 7, 2017
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The Sto­ry of an Under­ground: The Resis­tance of the Jews of Kovno in the Sec­ond World War
Dov Levin and Zvie A. Brown; Jessica Setbon, trans.
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The Clan­des­tine His­to­ry of the Kovno Jew­ish Ghet­to Police
Anonymous Members of the Kovno Jewish Ghetto Police
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Non­fic­tion
Lithuan­ian Yeshiv­as of the Nine­teenth Cen­tu­ry: Cre­at­ing a Tra­di­tion of Learning
Shaul Stampfer; Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz, trans.
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Non­fic­tion
The Lega­cy: Teach­ings for Life from the Great Lithuan­ian Rabbis
Berel Wein & Warren Goldstein
Essay

Notes from a Con­ver­sa­tion with Dovid Katz: Part Two

Ear­li­er this week, Ken­neth Bon­ert, author of the nov­el The Lion Seek­er (Houghton Mif­flin Har­court), shared some notes from the first part of his con­ver­sa­tion with…
Ken­neth Bonert
December 5, 2013
Essay

Notes from a Con­ver­sa­tion with Dovid Katz: Part One

Ken­neth Bon­ert’s fic­tion has appeared in McSweeney’s, Grain, and the Fid­dle­head, and his jour­nal­ism has appeared in the Globe and Mail and oth­er pub­li­ca­tions. His…
Ken­neth Bonert
December 3, 2013
Interview

Meet Sami Rohr Prize Final­ist Eliyahu Stern

Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-TeeterEar­li­er this month, we heard from Marni Davis, Mat­ti Fried­man, and Sarah Bunin Benor. Today we meet Eliyahu Stern, whose first book, The…
Nao­mi Firestone-Teeter
October 31, 2013
Essay

The Real Fla­vor of the Streets

Ear­li­er this week, Steve Stern wrote about embark­ing on a quixot­ic jour­ney and his deci­sion to teach cre­ative writ­ing in Vil­nius. He has been blog­ging here all…
Steve Stern
September 6, 2012
Essay

Illu­sions and Remembering

Yes­ter­day, Steve Stern wrote about his deci­sion to teach cre­ative writ­ing in Vil­nius. He will be blog­ging here for the Jew­ish Book Coun­cil and MyJew­ish­Learn­ing…
Steve Stern
September 5, 2012
Essay

A Yid­dishist in Vilnius

Steve Stern​’s most recent book, The Book of Mis­chief, is now avail­able. He will be blog­ging here all week for Jew­ish Book Coun­cil and MyJew­ish­Learn­ing.I had fun in…
Steve Stern
September 4, 2012
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