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Nonfiction Thugs: How History’s Most Notorious Despots Transformed the World Through Terror, Tyranny and Mass Murder Micah D. Halpern
Essay Historical Figure Fixation Lavie Tidhar’s most recent novel is Osama (PS Publishing). He will be blogging all week for the Jewish Book Council and MyJewishLearning.I might be obsessed with… Lavie Tidhar December 12, 2011
Nonfiction Laboratory for World Destruction: Germans and Jews in Central Europe Robert S. Wistrich
Nonfiction A Guest in My Own Country: A Hungarian Life George Konrad; Jim Tucker, trans.; Michael Henry Heim, ed.
Nonfiction Contesting Histories: German and Jewish Americans and the Legacy of the Holocaust Michael Schuldiner
Nonfiction At The Edge of a Dream: The Story of Jewish Immigrants on New York’s Lower East Side: 1880 – 1920 Lawrence J. Epstein
Nonfiction Local History, Transnational Memory in the Romanian Holocaust Valentina Glajar and Jeanine Teodorescu, eds.
Nonfiction An American in Hitler’s Berlin: Abraham Plotkin’s Diary, 1932 – 33 Catherine Collomp and Bruno Groppo, eds. and intro.
Nonfiction American Naturalism and the Jews: Garland, Norris, Dreiser, Wharton, and Cather Donald Pizer