On beauty: a novel

Author: Smith, Zadie

Title: On beauty: a novel

Published: New York: Penguin Books, 2006

Description: 445 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject(s):

• College teachers -- Fiction
• Massachusetts -- Fiction

Review(s):

• Heim, David. "Language games." The Christian Century 123.9 (May 2, 2006): 38
• Fisher, Susan Alice. "The shelter of each other." The Women's Review of Books 23.2 (March-April 2006): 30
• Pepper, Tara. "The Beauty Within; Zadie Smith's triumphant new novel updates the exploration of class relations found in 'Howards End.'." Newsweek International (Sept 19, 2005): 61

Read: March 20, 2008

Neighbors: the destruction of the Jewish community in Jedwabne, Poland

Author: Gross, Jan Tomasz

Uniform title: Sąsiedzi. English

Title: Neighbors: the destruction of the Jewish community in Jedwabne, Poland

Published: New York: Penguin Books, 2002

Description: xxii, 214 p. :ill. ; 20 cm.

Bibliography: p. 155-200

Note(s): Originally published: Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001. With new afterword. Translation of: Sąsiedzi: historia zlałady żydowskiego miasteczka

Subject(s):

• Jews -- Poland -- Jedwabne -- History
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Jedwabne
• Jedwabne (Poland) -- Ethnic relations

Review(s):

• Charns, Alexander. "MY POLISH GRANDFATHER: A dark history, with flashes of light." Commonweal 129.1 (Jan 11, 2002): 16
• Wert, Hal Elliott. "Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland." The Journal of Military History 66.2 (April 2002): 603
• Hoffert, Barbara, Heather McCormack, Rebecca Miller, Mirela Roncevic, Nathan Ward, and Wilda Williams. "Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland. (Best Books of 2001)." Library Journal 127.1 (Jan 2002): 49

Read: March 9, 2008