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    World War II

    Cover of The Secret History of World War II
    Non­fic­tion
    The Secret His­to­ry of World War II
    Neil Kagan and Stephen G. Hyslop; Kenneth W. Rendell, fwd.
    Cover of The Afterlife of Stars
    Fic­tion
    The After­life of Stars
    Joseph Kertes
    Cover of We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement That Defied Adolf Hitler
    Chil­dren’s
    We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Stu­dent Resis­tance Move­ment That Defied Adolf Hitler
    Russell Freedman
    Cover of The Rabbi Saved by Hitler's Soldiers
    Non­fic­tion
    The Rab­bi Saved by Hitler’s Soldiers
    Bryan Mark Rigg
    Cover of The Plots Against Hitler
    Non­fic­tion
    The Plots Against Hitler
    Danny Orbach
    Cover of Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forger's Life
    Non­fic­tion
    Adol­fo Kamin­sky: A Forg­er’s Life
    Sarah Kaminsky; Mike Mitchell, trans.
    Essay

    Spies — in the Gala­pa­gos Islands?

    Alli­son Amend
    July 27, 2016
    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
    Cover of Courage & Defiance: Stories of Spies, Saboteurs, and Survivors in World War II Denmark
    Non­fic­tion
    Courage & Defi­ance: Sto­ries of Spies, Sabo­teurs, and Sur­vivors in World War II Denmark
    Deborah Hopkinson
    Cover of Stealing Nazi Secrets in World War II: An Interactive Adventure
    Chil­dren’s
    Steal­ing Nazi Secrets in World War II: An Inter­ac­tive Adventure
    Elizabeth Raum
    Cover of Girl: My Childhood and the Second World War
    Non­fic­tion
    Girl: My Child­hood and the Sec­ond World War
    Alona Frankel
    Cover of Asylum: A Survivor's Flight from Nazi-Occupied Vienna Through Wartime France
    Non­fic­tion
    Asy­lum: A Sur­vivor’s Flight from Nazi-Occu­pied Vien­na Through Wartime France
    Moriz Scheyer, translated and with an epilogue by P.N. Singer
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    Poet­ry
    Paper Hearts
    Meg Wiviott
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    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
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