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 and @juliamklein.bsky.social
Julia M. KleinContributing Book Critic
By Julia M. Klein
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Books How a Jewish teacher uprooted and relocated her school to escape the Nazis
In a new book, the heroic story of Anna Essinger finally gets its due
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Culture Breaking the silence on the pogroms in Ukraine
Lisa Brahin recounts a harrowing family story, replete with inspiring heroism and unimaginable cruelty
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Culture In Argentina, a search for a Jewish rebel who became one of the ‘disappeared’
Marc Raboy’s ‘Looking for Alicia’ recounts a history of fascism through the story of a single murder victim
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Culture They profited from Nazi war crimes; their reckoning is far from over
An impassioned new book chronicles the exploits of billionaires who cozied up to the Third Reich
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Culture Emerging from a ‘twilight world,’ Delia Ephron offers a harrowing story of loss and survival
Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life By Delia Ephron Little, Brown and Company, 304 pages, $29 If you’re expecting a light, frothy read, Delia Ephron’s “Left on Tenth” isn’t your book. You’ll need to brace for (emotional) impact if you pick up this memoir of late-life love and life-threatening illness. Ephron was the…
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Culture Negotiating between heroism and collaboration, a kindergarten teacher sought to save lives in the Holocaust
The Nazis Knew My Name By Magda Hellinger with Maya Lee and David Brewster Atria Books, 320 pages, $27 In his 1986 essay collection, “The Drowned and the Saved,” Auschwitz-Birkenau survivor Primo Levi famously discussed a “grey zone” of moral “ambiguity and compromise” during the Holocaust. Among its inhabitants, he suggested, were concentration camp prisoners…
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Culture Before the revolution, a little peace and quiet — now there’s a radical idea
The Quiet Before: On the Unexpected Origins of Radical Ideas By Gal Beckerman Crown, 331 pages, $28.99 Have social media — especially mega sites such as Facebook and Twitter — played indispensable roles in social change in recent years? Your guess, and mine, would likely be yes. Not so fast, says Gal Beckerman in his…
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Culture In the post-Anthony Weiner and Harvey Weinstein era, a battle against sexual, moral and viral contagions
Love in the Time of Contagion: A Diagnosis By Laura Kipnis Pantheon, 210 pages, $26 Enmeshed in a seemingly endless pandemic, we’ve all become amateur epidemiologists, as Laura Kipnis notes, even if we’re not all equally adept at it. In Kipnis’s latest book, she harnesses her caustic prose and scathing wit to another amateur pursuit:…
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