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Cover of Twist, Tumble, Triumph: The Story of Champion Gymnast Agnes Kelet
Chil­dren’s
Twist, Tum­ble, Tri­umph: The Sto­ry of Cham­pi­on Gym­nast Agnes Kelet
Deb­o­rah Bod­in Cohen
Ker­ry Olitzky
Cover of Second Generation: Hungarian and Jewish Classics Reimagined for the Modern Table
Cook­book
Sec­ond Gen­er­a­tion: Hun­gar­i­an and Jew­ish Clas­sics Reimag­ined for the Mod­ern Table
Jere­my Salamon
Casey Elsass
Excerpt

Hun­gar­i­an Amer­i­can: On Being Sec­ond Generation

Jere­my Salamon
September 16, 2024
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Non­fic­tion
Cold Cre­ma­to­ri­um: Report­ing from the Land of Auschwitz
József Debreczeni; Paul Olchváry, trans.
Essay

“The World Must Know”: József Debreczeni’s ​“Lost” Masterpiece

Alexan­der Bruner
March 8, 2024
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Fic­tion
Lost Bread
Edith Bruck; Gabriella Romani and David Yanoff, trans.
Cover of Finding Home: (Hungary, 1945)
Fic­tion
Find­ing Home: (Hun­gary, 1945)
Dean Cycon
Cover of The Absent Moon: A Memoir of a Short Childhood and a Long Depression
Non­fic­tion
The Absent Moon: A Mem­oir of a Short Child­hood and a Long Depression
Luiz Schwarcz; Eric M. B. Becker, trans.
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Fic­tion
This Rebel Heart
Kather­ine Locke
Cover of Early Jewish Cookbooks: Essays on Hungarian Jewish Gastronomical History
Cook­book
Ear­ly Jew­ish Cook­books: Essays on Hun­gar­i­an Jew­ish Gas­tro­nom­i­cal History
András Koern­er
Cover of The Auschwitz Protocols: Ceslav Mordowicz and the Race to Save Hungary's Jews
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The Auschwitz Pro­to­cols: Ceslav Mor­dow­icz and the Race to Save Hun­gary’s Jews 
Fred R. Bleakley
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Daugh­ter of His­to­ry: Traces of an Immi­grant Girlhood
Susan Rubin Suleiman
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The Politzer Saga
Lin­da Ambrus Broenniman
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Non­fic­tion
The Pass­port as Home: Com­fort in Rootlessness
Andrei S. Markovits
Cover of Escape From Hungary: A Jewish Family’s Story of Survival
Chil­dren’s
Escape From Hun­gary: A Jew­ish Family’s Sto­ry of Survival
Nesanel Yoel Safran
Cover of Let Liberty Rise!: How America’s Schoolchildren Helped Save the Statue of Liberty
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Let Lib­er­ty Rise!: How America’s School­child­ren Helped Save the Stat­ue of Liberty
Chana Stiefel, Chuck Groenink (Illustrator)
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