Award-winning Cuban writer Leonardo Padura's novel is both an exploration of faith and a grand detective story.

Given Poland’s denial of the mass murder in Jedwabne, journalist Anna Bikont’s new investigative work, winner of a National Jewish Book Award, is especially important.

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