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Nonfiction Invisible Years: A Family’s Collected Account of Separation and Survival during the Holocaust in the Netherlands Daphne Geismar
Excerpt Excerpt — Guesthouse for Ganesha Read an excerpt of Judith Teitelman’s Guesthouse for Ganesha Judith Teitelman June 10, 2019
Nonfiction Children of Nazis: The Sons and Daughters of Himmler, Göring, Höss, Mengele, and Others— Living with a Father’s Monstrous Legacy Tania Crasnianski
Nonfiction Hollywood’s Spies: The Undercover Surveillance of Nazis in Los Angeles Laura B. Rosenzweig
Nonfiction Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America Steven J. Ross
Essay A Nazi Meeting at Madison Square Garden Earlier this week, Ezra Glinter wrote about the research behind his anthology Have I Got a Story for You: More Than a Century of Fiction from The… Ezra Glinter November 2, 2016
Essay When a Picture Speaks a Thousand Words Earlier this week, Helen Maryles Shankman questioned whether her fictional stories trivialize the Holocaust. She is guest blogging all week as a Visiting Scribe… Helen Maryles Shankman February 4, 2016
Nonfiction The Man Who Stalked Einstein: How Nazi Scientist Philipp Lenard Changed the Course of History Bruce J. Hillman
Interview Interview: Eric Lichtblau by Elise CooperThe Nazis Next Door by Eric Lichtblau is a compelling reminder of how quickly man’s inhumanity to man has been forgotten. Many in the FBI, CIA, the… Elise Cooper April 2, 2015
Nonfiction My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family’s Nazi Past Jennifer Teege and Nikola Sellmair; Carolin Sommer, trans.
Nonfiction Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East Barry Rubin and Wolfgang G. Schwanitz
Nonfiction A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination From Persecution to Genocide Alon Confino
