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The Opper­manns
Lion Feucht­wanger; James Cleugh, trans; Joshua Cohen, translation and introduction
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Non­fic­tion
The Woman Who Split the Atom: The Life of Lise Meitner
Maris­sa Moss
Essay

‘The Black Swan of Israel’: Remem­ber­ing Else Lasker-Schüler

James J. Conway
June 20, 2022
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Anna and Dr Helmy: How an Arab Doc­tor Saved a Jew­ish Girl in Hitler’s Berlin
Ronen Steinke
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The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz: A Pow­er­ful True Sto­ry of Hope and Survival
Thomas Geve
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Berlin: A Jew­ish Ode to the Metropolis
Jason Langer
Jews and the Olympics
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Fic­tion
The Pas­sen­ger
Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz, Philip Boehm (translator)
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Games of Decep­tion: The True Sto­ry of the First US Olympic Bas­ket­ball Team at the 1936 Olympics in Hitler’s Germany
Andrew Maraniss
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All Things That Deserve To Per­ish: A Nov­el Of Wil­helmine Germany
Dana Mack
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Bil­ly Wilder on Assign­ment: Dis­patch­es from Weimar Berlin and Inter­war Vienna
Noah Isen­berg
Interview

JBC Authors at the Table: Jan Eliasberg

Jan Elias­berg
June 16, 2020
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Fic­tion
The Man Who Saw Everything
Deb­o­rah Levy
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A Book­shop in Berlin: The Redis­cov­ered Mem­oir of One Woman’s Har­row­ing Escape from the Nazis
Françoise Frenkel (auth.), Stephanie Smee (trans.), Patrick Modiano (fwd.)
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How to Love the World
Elvira Basevich
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The World That We Knew: A Novel
Alice Hoff­man
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