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• Ida

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  "Its intimate drama unfolds at the crossroads where the Catholic, Jewish and Communist strains of Poland’s endlessly and bitterly contested national identity intersect. Ida and Wanda set out to discover what happened to Ida’s parents, a quest that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Property

  Modan, Rutu,

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  Graphic novel by an Israeli artist. Publisher's description: "After the death of her son, Regina Segal takes her granddaughter Mica to Warsaw, hoping to reclaim a family property lost during the Second World War. As they get to know modern Warsaw,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Lost Shtetl

  Gross, Max,

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  Publisher's description: "For decades, the tiny Jewish shtetl of Kreskol existed in happy isolation, virtually untouched and unchanged. Spared by the Holocaust and the Cold War, its residents enjoyed remarkable peace. It missed out on cars, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Lost Book of Adana Moreau

  a Novel

  Zapata, Michael,

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  "After her par­ents are killed by Amer­i­can Marines in 1916, Adana More­au leaves the Domini­can Repub­lic for New Orleans — where she even­tu­al­ly writes a much-laud­ed work of sci­ence fic­tion, Lost City. In 2005 Chica­go, Saul, an Israeli…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Plunder

  a Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure

  Kaiser, Menachem, 1985-

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  Publisher's description: "The author takes up his Holocaust-survivor grandfather’s former battle to reclaim the family’s apartment building in Sosnowiec, Poland.... A surprise discovery—that his grandfather’s cousin not only survived the war, but…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• People Love Dead Jews

  Reports From a Haunted Present

  Horn, Dara, 1977-

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  Publisher's description: "In these essays, Horn reflects on subjects as far-flung as the international veneration of Anne Frank, the mythology that Jewish family names were changed at Ellis Island, the blockbuster traveling exhibition Auschwitz, the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Replacement Life

  a Novel

  Fishman, Boris, 1979-

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  "In A Replace­ment Life, lit­er­ary jour­nal­ist Boris Fishman’s ambi­tious first nov­el, we enter a rich­ly com­ic world of aging Russ­ian Jew­ish immi­grants, still fierce in their will to sur­vive after so much mis­ery wrought by Hitler and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Where the Jews Aren't

  the Sad and Absurd Story of Birobidzhan, Russia's Autonomous Region

  Gessen, M.,

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  Publisher's description: "The complex, strange, and heart-wrenching truth behind the familiar narrative that begins with pogroms and ends with emigration. In 1929, the Soviet government set aside a sparsely populated area in the Soviet Far East for…Read moreRead more of this annotation