The Lost Café Schindler by Meriel Schindler
One Family, Two Wars, and the Search for Truth Kurt Schindler was an impossible man. His daughter Meriel spent her adult life trying to keep him at bay. Kurt had made extravagant claims about...
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People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present by Dara Horn
A startling and profound exploration of how Jewish history is exploited to comfort the living. Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating essays since she was a...
The Plum Trees by Victoria Shorr
Consie is home for a funeral when she stumbles upon a family letter sent from Germany in 1945, which contains staggering news: Consie’s great-uncle Hermann, who was transported to Auschwitz with his wife and...
Max Jacob: A Life in Art and Letters by Rosanna Warren
Though less of a household name than his contemporaries in early twentieth century Paris, Jewish homosexual poet Max Jacob was Pablo Picasso’s initiator into French culture, Guillaume Apollinaire’s guide out of the haze of...
The Blessing and the Curse: The Jewish People and Their Books in the Twentieth Century by Adam Kirsch
An erudite and accessible survey of Jewish life and culture in the twentieth century, as reflected in seminal texts. Following The People and the Books, which “covers more than 2,500 years of highly variegated Jewish...
