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 In a Christian Nationalist surveillance state, the few remaining Jews struggle to survive
Deborah Zoe Laufer's 'The Last Yiddish Speaker' envisions a dystopian future for America
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Books What we keep getting wrong about the Holocaust
In his 'Unfinished History,' Dan Stone argues that it was not an exclusively German project, but a 'continent-wide crime'
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Books Auschwitz would seem an unlikely backdrop for a love affair, yet this is a true story
Keren Blankfeld's 'Lovers in Auschwitz' tells of the relationship between David Wisnia and Helen Spitzer
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Books In the Warsaw ghetto, where disease, cold weather and violence all exerted heavy tolls
Lauren Grodstein's 'We Must Not Think of Ourselves' focuses on glimmers of hope amid overwhelming catastrophe
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Books 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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Books 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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