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Leah Grisham Leah Grisham, PhD is an Ohio-based writer. Her new book, The World Has Caught Fire: Life and Death in Holocaust-Era Poland, will be released with Amsterdam Press in 2026. Find her on Instagram @Leahshewrote. Website Instagram Reviews Articles Fiction Adventures of Max Spitzkopf: The Yiddish Sherlock Holmes Jonas Kreppel; Mikhl Yashinsky, trans. Nonfiction So We Died: A Memoir of Life and Death in the Ghetto of Šiauliai, Lithuania Levi Shalit; Ellen Cassedy, trans. Nonfiction Do Not Cry When I Die: A Holocaust Memoir of a Mother and Daughter’s Survival In Jewish Ghettos, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen Renee Salt Kate Thompson Nonfiction Internee Number 6 Maria Eisenstein; Will Schutt, trans. Nonfiction Warsaw Testament Samuel Kassow Nonfiction The Forbidden Daughter: The True Story of a Holocaust Survivor Zipora Klein Jakob Nonfiction Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz József Debreczeni; Paul Olchváry, trans. Nonfiction Survival Ita Dimant; Martin Dean, ed.; Teresa Pollin, trans. Nonfiction The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions Jonathan Rosen Fiction Once We Were Home Jennifer Rosner Nonfiction Onto Center Stage: The Biblical Woman Sara Reguer Nonfiction Even God Had Bad Parenting Days: Ancient Jewish Wisdom for New Parents Alicia Jo Rabins Fiction Human Blues Elisa Albert Fiction All the Shining People Kathy Friedman Fiction I Never Promised You a Rose Garden Joanne Greenberg Pagination Page 1 Next page ›› Essay Gisella Perl and Our ‘Haunted Present’ Leah Grisham April 25, 2022
Fiction Adventures of Max Spitzkopf: The Yiddish Sherlock Holmes Jonas Kreppel; Mikhl Yashinsky, trans.
Nonfiction So We Died: A Memoir of Life and Death in the Ghetto of Šiauliai, Lithuania Levi Shalit; Ellen Cassedy, trans.
Nonfiction Do Not Cry When I Die: A Holocaust Memoir of a Mother and Daughter’s Survival In Jewish Ghettos, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen Renee Salt Kate Thompson
Nonfiction Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz József Debreczeni; Paul Olchváry, trans.
Nonfiction The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions Jonathan Rosen
Nonfiction Even God Had Bad Parenting Days: Ancient Jewish Wisdom for New Parents Alicia Jo Rabins