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Names in a Jar
Jennifer Gold
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Non­fic­tion
The Upstander: How Sur­viv­ing the Holo­caust Sparked Max Glauben’s Mis­sion to Dis­man­tle Hate
Jori Epstein
Essay

The Jew­ish Writer Behind Mozart’s Operas

Howard Jay Smith
September 21, 2021
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Non­fic­tion
War­saw Ghet­to Police: The Jew­ish Order Ser­vice dur­ing the Nazi Occupation
Katarzyna Person
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Chil­dren’s
I Sur­vived the Nazi Inva­sion, 1944: The Graph­ic Novel
Lauren Tarshis, Álvaro Sarraseca (Illustrator)
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Fic­tion
28 Days: A Nov­el of Resis­tance in the War­saw Ghetto
David Safier, Helen MacCormac (trans.)
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Non­fic­tion
From the Vil­na Ghet­to to Nurem­berg: Mem­oir and Testimony
Abraham Sutzkever, Justin D. Cammy (Editor, Translator)
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Invis­i­ble Enlight­en­ers: The Jew­ish Mer­chants of Mod­e­na, from the Renais­sance to the Emancipation 
Federica Francesconi
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Poet­ry
The Tale of a Niggun
Elie Wiesel, Mark Podwal (illus.)
Essay

Renais­sance Revealed: The Oppres­sion of Jews in Italy in the 1500s

Cather­ine Fletcher
September 14, 2020
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Fic­tion
The Woman With the Blue Star
Pam Jenoff
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Fic­tion
Beyond the Ghet­to Gates: A Novel
Michelle Cameron
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Poet­ry
The Full Pome­gran­ate: Poems of Avrom Sutzkever
Avrom Sutzkeverk, Richard J. Fein (trans.), Justin Cammy (intro.)  
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Fic­tion
The World That We Knew: A Novel
Alice Hoff­man
Essay

A Ghet­to in the Mid­dle of a City

Yes­ter­day, Gwen Edel­man wrote about a recent vis­it to War­saw. Her most recent nov­el, The Train to War­saw (Grove Press), is now avail­able. She will be blog­ging here…
Gwen Edel­man
April 24, 2014
Essay

In My Char­ac­ters’ Shoes

Gwen Edel­man​’s first nov­el, War Sto­ry, was trans­lat­ed into eight lan­guages, won the Prix du Pre­mier Roman Etranger in France, and was a Koret Jew­ish Book Award…
Gwen Edel­man
April 23, 2014
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