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Essay The Mishpocheh Connection Jonathan Kirsch, book editor of The Jewish Journal, contributes book reviews to the print and online editions and blogs at www.jewishjournal.com/twelvetwelve.… Jonathan Kirsch May 10, 2013
Essay A Scandalous Theory of Defense and Herschel Grynszpan Jonathan Kirsch, book editor of The Jewish Journal, contributes book reviews to the print and online editions and blogs at www.jewishjournal.com/twelvetwelve.… Jonathan Kirsch May 8, 2013
Nonfiction The Marcel Network: How One French Couple Saved 527 Children from the Holocaust Fred Coleman
Nonfiction Hunting Down the Jews: Vichy, the Nazis and Mafia Collaborators in Provence, 1942 – 1944 Isaac Levendal and Bernard Weisz; Serge Klarsfeld, fwd.
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Jacob’s Folly Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterLast week, Farrar, Straus and Giroux published Rebecca Miller’s new novel Jacob’s Folly, “a rollicking, ingenious, saucy book,… Naomi Firestone-Teeter March 13, 2013
Essay The Presence of the Past Earlier this week, Kati Marton wrote about the French Jewish family the Camondos and Paris’s black marble plaques. She has been blogging here all week for Jewish… Kati Marton August 31, 2012
Essay Remembering the Camondos Earlier this week, Kati Marton wrote about Paris’s black marble plaques and the subject of race in France. She will be blogging here all week for Jewish Book Council and… Kati Marton August 29, 2012
Nonfiction Of No Interest to the Nation: A Jewish Family in France, 1925 – 1945: A Memoir Gilbert Michlin; Afterword by Zeev Sternhell
Essay Facing Paris’s Black Marble Plaques Kati Marton’s most recent book, Paris: A Love Story, is now available. She will be blogging here for Jewish Book Council and MyJewishLearning all week.Now… Kati Marton August 27, 2012
Children’s Hidden on the Moutain: Stories of Children Sheltered From the Nazis in Le Chambon Deborah Durlans DeSaix, Karen Gray Ruelle