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This month, I’d like to recommend Peter Schneider’s ‘The Wall Jumper,’ a short novella which will be our Book Club choice for July 19th. Published… Read More »Book Recommendation: The Wall Jumper, by Peter Schneider

This month, I’d like to recommend ‘Alone in Berlin’. Don’t be intimidated about it being quite a tome – it is a fast read, though… Read More »Book Recommendation: Alone in Berlin, by Hans Fallada

This month, you might be especially interested to read Deborah Feldman’s memoir ‘Unorthodox.’ Feldman left the ultra-orthodox Hasidic Jewish community in Williamsburg, Brooklyn to move… Read More »Book of the month: Unorthodox, by Deborah Feldman

This month, I would like to step back from our prevalent twentieth-century themes and recommend to you ‘Measuring the World’ by Daniel Kehlmann. In case… Read More »Book Recommendation: Measuring the World, by Daniel Kehlmann

This month, it has to be ‘The Death of Adolf Hitler: The Final Word’ by Jean-Christoph Brisard and Lana Parshina, which you might well read… Read More »Book Recommendation: The Death of Adolf Hitler: The Final Word by Jean-Christoph Brisard and Lana Parshina