How forgetting the Holocaust helped Germany thrive after the war
Harald Jähner’s ‘Aftermath’ subverts our preconceptions about post-war Germany as a world of rubble, struggle and Soviet atrocities.
Genius, jerk, misogynist, everyman — the many lives of Saul Bellow
Asaf Galay’s “The Adventures of Saul Bellow,” which interviews many of the late author’s friends, family and admirers falls just short of hagiography.
Retire? Pack the court? A Jewish Supreme Court justice’s answers are unconvincing
In “The Authority of the Court and Peril of Politics,” the sphinx-like Justice Stephen Breyer defends the reputation of the Supreme Court.
How Leonard Bernstein embraced his Jewishness — and changed the world
“Bernstein’s Wall,” a new documentary, tells the legendary composer and conductor’s story using his own voice and exploring his political side.
After America’s deadliest antisemitic incident, grief, trauma and resilience
Mark Oppenheimer’s “Squirrel Hill” takes the author back to his hometown and the Tree of Life shooting that traumatized his community.
Was her parents’ tempestuous marriage part of an elaborate cover story? She may never know for sure.
Judy Bolton-Fasman’s ‘Asylum’ is a beautifully-written memoir of a family’s secrets and a daughter’s efforts to uncover them.
Deep in the woods, where a terrifying real-life Holocaust fairy tale unfolded
Rebecca Frankel’s ‘Into the Forest’ tells the story of the Rabinowitz family and other Jews who confront both natural and man-made terrors.
In a tale of Holocaust resistance, glimpses of Anne Frank’s last days
In September 1944, as related in ‘The Sisters of Auschwitz,’ both the Franks and Brilleslijpers endured a harrowing cattle car journey to Auschwitz,
An All-American journey through Blackness, whiteness, Christianity, Judaism, slavery and freedom
In ‘Once We Were Slaves,’ Laura Leibman pieces together a genealogical puzzle to recount the extraordinary journey of a multiracial family.
In World War II Berlin, a little-known story of German resistance
During the war, Mildred and Arvid Harnack plotted sabotage and facilitated the escape of Jews.