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Yes­ter­day, Gwen Edel­man wrote about a recent vis­it to War­saw. Her most recent nov­el, The Train to War­saw (Grove Press), is now avail­able. She will be blog­ging here…

Gwen Edel­man​’s first nov­el, War Sto­ry, was trans­lat­ed into eight lan­guages, won the Prix du Pre­mier Roman Etranger in France, and was a Koret Jew­ish Book Award…

Jonathan Kirsch, book edi­tor of The Jew­ish Jour­nal, con­tributes book reviews to the print and online edi­tions and blogs…

Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-TeeterToday marks the 70th anniver­sary of the War­saw Ghet­to Upris­ing. Read about the Pol­ish trib­ute here and learn more about the War­saw…

Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-TeeterIre­na Sendler is one of the ​“Oth­er Schindlers.” Dur­ing World War II she helped cre­ate over 3,000 false doc­u­ments to help…

Last week, Deb­o­rah Lip­stadt wrote about eerie anniver­saries and Han­nah Arendt. Her posts have been appear­ing as a part of Jew­ish Book…

Post­ed by Libi AdlerNew book by Naa­va Piat­ka, No Good­byes, hon­ors both of her Holo­caust sur­vivor par­ents’ pasts. Already known inter­na­tion­al­ly for her…

Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-TeeterThe touch­ing, haunt­ing paint­ings by Samuel Bak, inspired by the lit­tle boy from the famous Stroop Report pho­to tak­en in the War­saw…