Author: 
Jeffrey Koerber
Reviewer: 
Joanna Sliwa

Sliwa on Koerber, 'Borderland Generation: Soviet and Polish Jews under Hitler'

Jeffrey Koerber. Borderland Generation: Soviet and Polish Jews under Hitler. Modern Jewish History Series. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2020. Illustrations, maps. 286 pp. $39.95 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-8156-5465-0; $39.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8156-3637-3; $80.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8156-3619-9.

Reviewed by Joanna Sliwa (Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference)) Published on H-Poland (December, 2020) Commissioned by Anna Muller (University of Michigan - Dearborn)

Author: 
Emma Kuby
Reviewer: 
Dan Stone

Stone on Kuby, 'Political Survivors: The Resistance, the Cold War, and the Fight against Concentration Camps after 1945'

Emma Kuby. Political Survivors: The Resistance, the Cold War, and the Fight against Concentration Camps after 1945. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019. xii + 295 pp. $32.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5017-3279-9.

Reviewed by Dan Stone (Royal Holloway, University of London) Published on H-Diplo (August, 2019) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach (Bronx Community College, The City University of New York)

Author: 
Maddy Carey
Reviewer: 
Bjorn Krondorfer

Krondorfer on Carey, 'Jewish Masculinity in the Holocaust: Between Destruction and Construction'

Maddy Carey. Jewish Masculinity in the Holocaust: Between Destruction and Construction. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017. 224 pp. $114.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-350-00806-9.

Reviewed by Bjorn Krondorfer (Northern Arizona University) Published on H-Judaic (October, 2018) Commissioned by Barbara Krawcowicz (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

Author: 
Otto Schrag, Peter Schrag
Reviewer: 
Sebastian Huebel

Huebel on Schrag and Schrag, 'When Europe Was a Prison Camp: Father and Son Memoirs, 1940-1941'

Otto Schrag, Peter Schrag. When Europe Was a Prison Camp: Father and Son Memoirs, 1940-1941. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015. Illustrations, map. 328 pp. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-253-01769-7.

Reviewed by Sebastian Huebel (University of British Columbia) Published on H-War (April, 2017) Commissioned by Margaret Sankey

Author: 
Anna Cichopek-Gajraj
Reviewer: 
Tomasz Frydel

Frydel on Cichopek-Gajraj, 'Beyond Violence: Jewish Survivors in Poland and Slovakia, 1944-48'

Anna Cichopek-Gajraj. Beyond Violence: Jewish Survivors in Poland and Slovakia, 1944-48. New Studies in European History Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. 297 pp. $110.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-03666-6.

Reviewed by Tomasz Frydel (University of Toronto) Published on H-Poland (June, 2016) Commissioned by Paul Brykczynski

The Return of Comparative History: Anti-Jewish Violence in Postwar Eastern Europe

Author: 
Laura Jockusch
Reviewer: 
Susanne Urban

Urban on Jockusch, 'Collect and Record!: Jewish Holocaust Documentation in Early Postwar Europe'

Laura Jockusch. Collect and Record!: Jewish Holocaust Documentation in Early Postwar Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. XV, 320 S. $74.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-976455-6.

Reviewed by Susanne Urban (International Tracing Service) Published on H-Judaic (September, 2013) Commissioned by Jason Kalman

They Spoke, Wrote, and Collected: Early Testimonies and Jewish Holocaust Documentation

Author: 
David G. Roskies, Naomi Diamant
Reviewer: 
Jonathan Druker

Druker on Roskies and Diamant, 'Holocaust Literature: A History and Guide'

David G. Roskies, Naomi Diamant. Holocaust Literature: A History and Guide. Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 2012. 368 pp. $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-61168-357-8; $35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-61168-358-5.

Reviewed by Jonathan Druker (Illinois State University) Published on H-Judaic (July, 2013) Commissioned by Jason Kalman

Recouping the Roots and Branches of Holocaust Literature

Author: 
Laura Jockusch
Reviewer: 
Anna Motyczka

Motyczka on Jockusch, 'Collect and Record! Jewish Holocaust Documentation in Early Postwar Europe'

Laura Jockusch. Collect and Record! Jewish Holocaust Documentation in Early Postwar Europe. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. xv + 320 pp. $74.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-976455-6.

Reviewed by Anna Motyczka (Leo Baeck Institute London) Published on H-Antisemitism (August, 2013) Commissioned by Philipp Nielsen

Documenting Destruction

Author: 
Lorrie Greenhouse Gardella
Reviewer: 
Michael Reisch

Reisch on Gardella, 'The Life and Thought of Louis Lowy: Social Work Through the Holocaust'

Lorrie Greenhouse Gardella. The Life and Thought of Louis Lowy: Social Work Through the Holocaust. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2011. 240 pp. $24.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8156-0965-0.

Reviewed by Michael Reisch (University of Maryland) Published on H-Judaic (July, 2013) Commissioned by Jason Kalman

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