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Nonfiction Adventurers Against Their Will: Extraordinary World War II Stories of Survival, Escape, and Connection-Unlike Any Others Joanie Holzer Schirm
Nonfiction Diary of the Dark Years, 1940- 1944: Collaboration, Resistance, and Daily Life in Occupied Paris Jean Guehenno; David Ball, annotator and trans.
Essay A Moment of Kindness Earlier this week, Charles Belfoure wrote about the material he cut from his novel, The Paris Architect (Sourcebooks Landmark). He has been blogging here all week for… Charles Belfoure October 17, 2013
Nonfiction Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America’s Fight Over World War II, 1939 – 1941 Lynne Olson
Essay Collective Guilt vs. Collective Fear: Shame, Truth, and Reconciliation In her first two installments of “Collective Guilt vs. Collective Fear,” Randy Susan Meyers wrote about an essay in which the writer met with an elderly former SS… Randy Susan Meyers May 17, 2013
Essay Collective Guilt vs. Collective Fear: Ordinary German Citizens During WWII In her first installment of “Collective Guilt vs. Collective Fear,” Randy Susan Meyers wrote about an essay in which the writer met with an elderly former SS officer.… Randy Susan Meyers May 14, 2013
Nonfiction Serenade: A Memoir of Music and Love from Vienna and Prague to Los Angeles, 1927 to World War II to 2012 Carol Jean Delmar
Essay Randy Susan Meyers on Collective Guilt vs. Collective Fear Randy Susan Meyers’s most recent book, The Comfort of Lies, is now available. She is also the author of The Murderer’s Daughters, a finalist for the Massachusetts… Randy Susan Meyers May 13, 2013
Nonfiction Süssen Is Now Free of Jews: World War II, The Holocaust, and Rural Judaism Gilya Gerda Schmidt
Essay Debating the Term “Concentration Camp” Earlier this week, Eric L. Muller wrote about the photographer Bill Manbo, mass incarceration and Kodachrome, and asked: What does a concentration camp look… Eric L. Muller January 17, 2013
Essay Making It Human Eric L. Muller will be blogging here all week for Jewish Book Council and MyJewishLearning.The question that I am exploring in this series of blog posts is what… Eric L. Muller January 16, 2013
