Close Jewish Book Council, founded in 1943, is the longest-running organization devoted exclusively to the support and celebration of Jewish literature. Get the latest reviews, news, and more in your inbox. Invalid email address
In the Garden of the Righteous: The Heroes Who Risked Their Lives to Save Jews During the Holocaust
Fiction The Oppermanns Lion Feuchtwanger; James Cleugh, trans; Joshua Cohen, translation and introduction
Nonfiction Anna and Dr Helmy: How an Arab Doctor Saved a Jewish Girl in Hitler’s Berlin Ronen Steinke
Nonfiction Games of Deception: The True Story of the First US Olympic Basketball Team at the 1936 Olympics in Hitler’s Germany Andrew Maraniss
Nonfiction Billy Wilder on Assignment: Dispatches from Weimar Berlin and Interwar Vienna Noah Isenberg
Nonfiction A Bookshop in Berlin: The Rediscovered Memoir of One Woman’s Harrowing Escape from the Nazis Françoise Frenkel (auth.), Stephanie Smee (trans.), Patrick Modiano (fwd.)
