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Francesco Tirelli’s Ice Cream Shop

Tamar Meir (author), Yael Albert (illus.), Noga Applebaum (trans.)

Memento Park: A Novel

The Restless Hungarian: Modernism, Madness, and The American Dream

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

Interview

Interview: Jessica Keener

Jonathan Arlan

March 6, 2018

The Book of Mordechai and Lazarus: Two Novels (The Hungarian List)

Gábor Schein; Adam Z. Levy and Ottilie Mulzet, trans.

Hedy’s Journey: The True Story of a Hungarian Girl Fleeing the Holocaust

Michelle Bisson; El primo Ramón, illus.

Strangers in Budapest

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

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

The Kasztner Report: The Report of the Budapest Jewish Rescue Committee, 1942 – 1945

Rezső Kasztner; edited by László Karsai and Judit Molnár

Food, Family and Tradition: Hungarian Kosher Family Recipes and Remembrances

Conscripted Slaves: Hungarian Jewish Forced Laborers on the Eastern Front During the Second World War

The Budapest House: A Life Re-Discovered

The Geographical Encyclopedia of the Holocaust in Hungary

Randolph L. Braham, ed.