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Nonfiction No Road Leading Back: An Improbable Escape from the Nazis in a Place Called Ponar, and the Tangled Way We Tell the Story of the Holocaust Chris Heath
Nonfiction The Nazi’s Granddaughter: How I Discovered My Grandfather Was a War Criminal Silvia Foti
Children’s The People’s Painter: How Ben Shahn Fought for Justice With Art Cynthia Levinson, Evan Turk (Illustrator)
Nonfiction Rescue the Surviving Souls: The Great Jewish Refugee Crisis of the Seventeenth Century Adam Teller
Nonfiction 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.
Nonfiction The Clandestine History of the Kovno Jewish Ghetto Police Anonymous Members of the Kovno Jewish Ghetto Police
Nonfiction The Legacy: Teachings for Life from the Great Lithuanian Rabbis Berel Wein & Warren Goldstein
Nonfiction Lithuanian Yeshivas of the Nineteenth Century: Creating a Tradition of Learning Shaul Stampfer; Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz, trans.
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