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Recommended Reading Reading the Holocaust Earlier this week, Peter Hayes introduced readers to the teachers named in the dedication and acknowledgements to his book Why?: Explaining the Holocaust. Peter is… Peter Hayes January 19, 2017
Nonfiction Holocaust, Genocide, and the Law: A Quest for Justice in a Post-Holocaust World Michael Bazyler
Children’s We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement That Defied Adolf Hitler Russell Freedman
Children’s Irena’s Children: A True Story of Courage Tillar Mazzeo; adapted by Mary Cronk Farrell
Essay Rewriting My Family Memoir as a Work of Fiction Andrea Simon’s novel Esfir Is Alive was published earlier this month. She will be guest blogging for the Jewish Book Council all week as part of the Visiting Scribe… Andrea Simon November 28, 2016