Julia M. Klein
Book Critic and Cultural Reporter at Freelance
Julia M. Klein is a Philadelphia-based cultural reporter and critic who writes about museums, theater, books, film, television and the media.
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Fear No Pharaoh: American Jews, the Civil War, and the Fight to End SlaveryBy Richard KreitnerFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 416 pages, $32The central thesis of Richard Kreitner's Fear No Pharaoh is unsurprising: In the 19th-century, American Jews, like their compatriots, were all over the map in their attitudes toward slavery. Geography was a key factor, but not necessarily determinative. Some Jews in the South were slave owners.
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Internee Number 6By Maria Eisenstein; translated by Will Schutt CPL Editions, 321 pages., $20The Italian internment camp of Maria Eisenstein's 1944 memoir isn't the hellscape of Auschwitz-Birkenau or Bergen-Belsen. In this former villa, no one is gassed or beaten to death or starved. "The days can be stomached," Eisenstein writes.
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Determined to secure her family’s future, Evelyn leaves her gang-plagued California desert town of Lancaster with her husband and five children. Using her aunt’s address, the 29-year-old waitress enrolls her four oldest in Monterey Park’s far better public schools. She manages to keep them there, even while fleeing her violent husband and toggling between rundown motels and scary, sleep-deprived nights in a 2008 Toyota Highlander.
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The Many Lives of Anne Frank By Ruth Franklin Yale University Press, 440 pages, $30The title of Ruth Franklin's The Many Lives of Anne Frank exudes a tragic and no doubt purposeful irony. A melding of biography, literary exegesis and cultural history, this volume in the Yale University Press's excellent Jewish Lives series ably chronicles the outsized impact of a girl who, as virtually the entire world knows, didn't survive into adulthood. The facts of Anne Frank's life are mostly familiar.
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‘Tangled Fortunes’ Review: The Legal History of Interracial Marriage in Mississippi https://t.co/pOVab4jJ1m via @WSJBooks
‘Last Seen’ Review: Searching for those separated by #Slavery (and mostly hitting dead-ends) https://t.co/Ou9qiqKAPn via @WSJBooks
What was the Jewish record on #slavery? It's (very) complicated. https://t.co/6C5fqsNRSh