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Nonfiction The Betrayal of the Duchess: The Scandal That Unmade the Bourbon Monarchy and Made France Modern Maurice Samuels
Nonfiction Hate: The Rising Tide of Anti-Semitism in France (and What It Means for Us) Marc Weitzmann
Essay 30 Days, 30 Authors: Matti Friedman, winner of the Natan Book Award Matti Friedman December 7, 2017
Excerpt You Have to Have Been a Refugee Yourself Excerpted from Asylum: A Survivor’s Flight from Nazi-Occupied Vienna Through Wartime France by Moriz ScheyerI know that I will provoke the criticism in some… Moriz Scheyer September 29, 2016
Nonfiction Asylum: A Survivor’s Flight from Nazi-Occupied Vienna Through Wartime France Moriz Scheyer, translated and with an epilogue by P.N. Singer
Nonfiction The Burdens of Brotherhood: Jews and Muslims from North Africa to France Ethan B. Katz
Nonfiction A Fifty-Year Silence: Love, War, and a Ruined House in France Miranda Richmond Mouillot
Nonfiction The Archive Thief: The Man Who Salvaged French Jewish History in the Wake of the Holocaust Lisa Moses Leff
Interview Interview: Tony Schumacher by Elise CooperThe Darkest Hour is an alternate history, a psychological study, and a thriller all rolled into one fantastic book. It begins with Germany… Elise Cooper April 28, 2015