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 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 Slave and victim of the Nazi regime — the complicated legacy of Bruno Schulz
Benjamin Balint delves into the history of the 'virtuoso of language and image' who was murdered on 'Black Thursday'
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Culture Spurred by religious faith, an angelic evangelist became a savior to Jews
In 'The Watchmaker's Daughter,' the heroic story of Corrie ten Boom
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Culture A family and a writer plagued by the aftershocks of Holocaust trauma
in 'The Absent Moon,' Luiz Schwarcz writes of survivor guilt and his own depression
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Culture How the Netherlands became a nation of diarists in WWII
Anne Frank was far from the only chronicler of a country's descent into catastrophe
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Theater For a Jewish family in Ukraine, a wrenching choice between Israel and the U.S.
In Stephanie Satie's 'Last Parade,' a domestic argument reflects global conflicts
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Culture How the horrors of WWII turned the righteous into heroes
In Richard Hurowitz's 'Garden of the Righteous,' normal, decent people face extraordinary dangers to become rescuers
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