Julia M. Klein, the Forward’s contributing book critic, has been a two-time finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing. Follow her @JuliaMKlein.
Julia M. KleinContributing Book Critic
By Julia M. Klein
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Culture Surviving the Holocaust, only to endure the brutality of life under Stalin
In 'Two Roads Home,' Daniel Finkelstein urges the reader to remember both Nazi and Soviet crimes against humanity
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Culture Her family escaped from pogroms to South Dakota — did they become complicit in the decimation of Native Americans?
Rebecca Clarren's 'The Cost of Free Land' is a confession of collective guilt
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Culture Finally, her quest for restitution from Germany succeeded — but at what psychological cost?
In 'Summons to Berlin,' Joanne Intrator recounts a grueling journey to receive compensation
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Culture A week as a hostage on a hijacked plane, a lifetime of anxiety and traumatic memories
In 'My Hijacking,' Martha Hodes tries to reconstruct 'the most spectacular episode of air piracy the world had yet seen'
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Culture Any resemblance between these characters and Vladmir Putin’s Russia is strictly intentional
In Paul Goldberg's 'The Dissident,' a Jewish refusenik must try to solve a murder before Henry Kissinger comes to town
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Culture In praise (and defense) of Elie Wiesel, who spoke with ‘the aura of a prophet’
Concisely chronicling the life and legacy of the Nobel laureate, Joseph Berger's new biography is an indispensable touchstone
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Culture How one man’s photographic memory helped preserve the music of the Nazi camps
Aleksander Kulisiewicz survived Sachsenhausen and went on to create a jaw-dropping archive
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Film & TV How a gift for music saved one man from the Nazis
The PBS documentary 'How Saba Kept Singing' tells the affecting tale of Holocaust survivor David Wisnia
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Culture Henry Kissinger: ‘If it were not for the accident of my birth, I would be antisemitic.’
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