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Nonfiction The Mufti of Jerusalem and the Nazis: The Berlin Years Klaus Gensicke; Alexander Fraser Gunn, trans.
Nonfiction Rezso Kasztner: The Daring Rescue of Hungarian Jews: A Survivor’s Account Ladislaus Lob
Essay Maus-iversary Posted by Alyssa BerlinThere are very few books that I have read more than once. Maus: A Survivor’s Tale is one of the few that I have wanted to pick… Alyssa Berlin August 29, 2011
Nonfiction Jews in Nazi Berlin: From Kristallnacht to Liberation Beate Meyer, Hermann Simon, Chana Schutz
Nonfiction Cadaverland: Inventing a Pathology of Catastrophe for Holocaust Survival Michael Dorland
Nonfiction Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer
Nonfiction Hiding in the Spotlight: A Musical Prodigy’s Story of Survival, 1941 – 1946 Greg Dawson
Nonfiction Saving What Remains: A Holocaust Survivor’s Journey Home to Reclaim Her Ancestry Livia Bitton-Jackson
Nonfiction Thinking in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt on Ethics and Politics Roger Berkowitz, Jeffrey Katz, and Thomas Keenan, eds.