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Nonfiction The Secret History of World War II Neil Kagan and Stephen G. Hyslop; Kenneth W. Rendell, fwd.
Children’s We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement That Defied Adolf Hitler Russell Freedman
Essay Here’s What I Know About the Real Frances Conway With the recent release of her new novel, Enchanted Islands, Allison Amend is guest blogging for the Jewish Book Council this week as part of the Visiting Scribe series… Allison Amend July 25, 2016
Nonfiction Courage & Defiance: Stories of Spies, Saboteurs, and Survivors in World War II Denmark Deborah Hopkinson
Nonfiction Asylum: A Survivor’s Flight from Nazi-Occupied Vienna Through Wartime France Moriz Scheyer, translated and with an epilogue by P.N. Singer
Recommended Reading Jews in the Rubble: A Reading List Earlier this week, Polly Zavadivker wrote about S. Ansky, Isaac Babel, and Vasily Grossman’s chronicles of the catastrophe of the Russian twentieth century. She… Polly Zavadivker April 20, 2016
Essay On Writing Catastrophe: Jewish Chroniclers of War in 20th-Century Russia Polly Zavadivker is the editor and translator of the recently published 1915 Diary of S. An-sky: A Russian Jewish Writer at the Eastern Front. She is blogging… Polly Zavadivker April 18, 2016
Essay Before Pearl Harbor Kim Brooks is the author of The Houseguest: A Novel, out tomorrow from Counterpoint Press. She is blogging here all week as part of the Visiting Scribe series on The… Kim Brooks April 11, 2016