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Nonfiction The Upstander: How Surviving the Holocaust Sparked Max Glauben’s Mission to Dismantle Hate Jori Epstein
Nonfiction Warsaw Ghetto Police: The Jewish Order Service during the Nazi Occupation Katarzyna Person
Children’s I Survived the Nazi Invasion, 1944: The Graphic Novel Lauren Tarshis, Álvaro Sarraseca (Illustrator)
Fiction 28 Days: A Novel of Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto David Safier, Helen MacCormac (trans.)
Nonfiction Invisible Enlighteners: The Jewish Merchants of Modena, from the Renaissance to the Emancipation Federica Francesconi
Essay Renaissance Revealed: The Oppression of Jews in Italy in the 1500s Catherine Fletcher September 14, 2020
Poetry The Full Pomegranate: Poems of Avrom Sutzkever Avrom Sutzkeverk, Richard J. Fein (trans.), Justin Cammy (intro.)
Essay A Ghetto in the Middle of a City 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 April 24, 2014
Essay In My Characters’ Shoes 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… Gwen Edelman April 23, 2014
Essay Jonathan Kirsch on the Question of Jewish Resistance and Herschel Grynszpan Jonathan Kirsch, book editor of The Jewish Journal, contributes book reviews to the print and online editions and blogs… Jonathan Kirsch May 6, 2013
