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Children’s Francesco Tirelli’s Ice Cream Shop Tamar Meir (author), Yael Albert (illus.), Noga Applebaum (trans.)
Nonfiction The Restless Hungarian: Modernism, Madness, and The American Dream Tom Weidlinger
Interview Talking with Debut Novelist Kim Sherwood Testament tells the story of a young woman whose beloved grandfather dies, triggering her quest to find the truth of his past. Amy Spungen February 26, 2019
Fiction The Book of Mordechai and Lazarus: Two Novels (The Hungarian List) Gábor Schein; Adam Z. Levy and Ottilie Mulzet, trans.
Children’s Hedy’s Journey: The True Story of a Hungarian Girl Fleeing the Holocaust Michelle Bisson; El primo Ramón, illus.
Essay Heirlooms from Hungary Sophie Cook’s family history and childhood experience of surviving the Holocaust in Hungary inform her first historical novel, Anna & Elizabeth. Sophie… Sophie Cook June 6, 2016
Nonfiction Raoul Wallenberg: The Heroic Life and Mysterious Disappearance of the Man Who Saved Thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust Ingrid Carlberg; Ebba Segerberg, trans.; Kofi A. Annan, intro.
Essay My Wallenberg Education in Budapest, Stockholm, and Moscow Earlier this week, Alan Lelchuk wrote about meeting Daniel Pagliansky, Wallenberg’s KGB interrogator. Lelchuk is the author of the acclaimed novels, American… Alan Lelchuk May 6, 2015
Nonfiction The Kasztner Report: The Report of the Budapest Jewish Rescue Committee, 1942 – 1945 Rezső Kasztner; edited by László Karsai and Judit Molnár
Nonfiction Food, Family and Tradition: Hungarian Kosher Family Recipes and Remembrances Lynn Shapiro
Nonfiction Conscripted Slaves: Hungarian Jewish Forced Laborers on the Eastern Front During the Second World War Robert Rozett
Nonfiction The Geographical Encyclopedia of the Holocaust in Hungary Randolph L. Braham, ed.
