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Nonfiction The Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl: How Two Brave Scientists Battled Typhus and Sabotaged the Nazis Arthur Allen
Essay Changing Times, Changing Letters, and Moving Forward Earlier this week, Liana Finck wrote about how she discovered A Bintel Brief and shared the history behind the column. Her graphic novel, A Bintel… Liana Finck April 18, 2014
Essay Finding a Story to Tell Earlier this week, Liana Finck shared the history behind the Forward’s Bintel Brief column. Her graphic novel, A Bintel Brief, was published by Ecco. She will be… Liana Finck April 17, 2014
Essay The Beginnings of A Bintel Brief Liana Finck is an emerging graphic novelist. She was a Fulbright Fellow in Brussels in 2009-10 and is a Six Points Fellow in New York. She publishes in The… Liana Finck April 14, 2014
Nonfiction The Clandestine History of the Kovno Jewish Ghetto Police Anonymous Members of the Kovno Jewish Ghetto Police
Nonfiction Dear Mendl, Dear Reyzl: Yiddish Letter Manuals from Russia and America Alice Nakhimovsky and Roberta Newman
Nonfiction Hanns and Rudolf: The True Story of the German Jew Who Tracked Down and Caught the Kommandant of Auschwitz Thomas Harding
Nonfiction How the Jews Defeated Hitler: Exploding the Myth of Jewish Passivity in the Face of Nazism Benjamin Ginsberg
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
Nonfiction Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East Scott Anderson
Nonfiction Between Ruin and Restoration: An Environmental History of Israel Daniel E. Orenstein, Alon Tal, Char Miller, eds.
Nonfiction All the Trees of the Forest: Israel’s Woodlands from the Bible to the Present Alon Tal
