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    Elise Coop­er

    Elise Coop­er lives in Los Ange­les and has writ­ten numer­ous nation­al secu­ri­ty arti­cles sup­port­ing Israel. She writes book reviews and Q and A’s for many dif­fer­ent out­lets includ­ing the Mil­i­tary Press. She has had the plea­sure to inter­view best­selling authors from many dif­fer­ent genres.
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    Cover of An Officer and a Spy
    Fic­tion
    An Offi­cer and a Spy
    Robert Harris
    Cover of 1941: The Year That Keeps Returning
    Non­fic­tion
    1941: The Year That Keeps Returning
    Slavko Goldstein; Michael Gable, trans.
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    The Exiles Return: A Novel
    Elisabeth de Waal; Edmund de Waal, fwd.
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    Non­fic­tion
    Jews in the Los Ange­les Mosaic
    Karen S. Wilson, ed.
    Cover of My Mother's Secret: A Novel Based on a True Holocaust Story
    Fic­tion
    My Moth­er’s Secret: A Nov­el Based on a True Holo­caust Story
    J. L. Witterick
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    Fic­tion
    Freud’s Mis­tress
    Karen Mack and Jennifer Kaufman
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    Fic­tion
    A Hun­dred Summers
    Beatriz Williams
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    Fic­tion
    Who Will Die Last: Sto­ries of Life in Israel
    David Ehrlich; Ken Frieden, ed.; Various Translators

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    Interview

    Inter­view: Robert Harris

    by Elise Coop­erRobert Harris’s lat­est book, An Offi­cer and A Spy, is a fic­tion­al account of the Drey­fus Affair. This is a thrilling his­tor­i­cal nov­el that…
    Elise Coop­er
    June 17, 2014
    Interview

    Inter­view: Steven Pressman

    by Elise Coop­erHolo­caust Remem­brance Day empha­sizes the response of Amer­i­cans to near-anni­hi­la­tion of the Jews in Europe. A recent­ly pub­lished book by Steven…
    Elise Coop­er
    April 28, 2014
    Interview

    Inter­view: Slavko Goldstein

    by Elise Coop­erA con­ver­sa­tion with Slavko Gold­stein about recent­ly pub­lished book, 1941: The Year That Keeps Return­ing (New York Review of Books).Elise Coop­er: Do…
    Elise Coop­er
    March 25, 2014
    Interview

    Inter­view: David Laskin

    by Elise Coop­erDavid Laskin’s book, The Fam­i­ly: Three Jour­neys Into the Heart of the Twen­ti­eth Cen­tu­ry, is a grip­ping tale that traces the roots of the author’s…
    Elise Coop­er
    February 25, 2014
    Interview

    Inter­view: Ken­neth Bonert

    by Elise Coop­erThe Lion Seek­er by Ken­neth Bon­ert spans a twen­ty-five year peri­od in South Africa. It delves into a Jew­ish family’s tri­als and tribu­la­tions as…
    Elise Coop­er
    January 20, 2014
    Interview

    Inter­view with Liad Shoham

    by Elise Coop­erLiad Shoham is Israel’s num­ber one best-sell­ing crime author, and now his lat­est book, Line­up, has been trans­lat­ed into Eng­lish. Shoham has been called…
    Elise Coop­er
    October 22, 2013
    Interview

    Inter­view: Natasha Solomons

    by Elise Coop­erNatasha Solomon­s’s lat­est book, The Gallery of Van­ished Hus­bands, is a por­trait of Juli­et Montague’s life from 1958 to 2006. She choos­es her own…
    Elise Coop­er
    September 30, 2013
    Interview

    Daniel Sil­va on The Lat­est Book in His Gabriel Allon Series

    Elise Coop­er
    September 3, 2013
    Interview

    Inter­view: Marc Tracy

    by Elise Coop­erJew­ish Jocks: An Unortho­dox Hall of Fame, which won a 2012 Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award, is a col­lec­tion of essays com­piled by Franklin Foer and…
    Elise Coop­er
    June 17, 2013
    Essay

    Main­tain­ing Jew­ish Roots in the Military

    by Elise Coop­erAlthough there are many themes to Ali­son Buck­holtz​’s book, Stand­ing By: The Mak­ing of an Amer­i­can Mil­i­tary Fam­i­ly in a Time of War, one that…
    Elise Coop­er
    May 1, 2013

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