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 The true story of a Dutch Jewish survivor inspires a tale of WWII resistance
'A Place to Hide' is Ronald Balson's latest historical novel
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Books Transgression, dystopia and comedy reign at a Reform synagogue in a Toronto suburb
The stories in Aaron Kreuter's 'Rubble Children' seem particularly fresh and relevant after Oct. 7
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Culture New Holocaust memoir shifts the focus from survivors to descendants
'Irena's Gift' tries to untangle the web of inherited trauma
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Books On the road again — except a lot more Jewish than Jack Kerouac, or T.S. Eliot for that matter
Reuven Fenton's debut novel 'Goyhood' interrogates Jewish identity with a jaunty sense of adventure
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Books How Barbara Walters changed the world
Interviewing the likes of Vladimir Putin, Monica Lewinsky and Fidel Castro, the groundbreaking journalist remade television in her own image
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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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