Joe Berger Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Joseph Berger was a New York Times reporter, columnist, and editor. 30-year veteran @NYTimes. Author of Elie Wiesel: Confronting the Silence,Pious Ones: The World of Hasidim,Displaced Persons: Growing Up American After Holocaust

My Russian Grandmother and Her American Vacuum Cleaner: A Family Memoir
Meir Shalev
It tells the story of the author’s maternal grandmother, a plucky socialist pioneer who receives a General Electric model (or “svieeperrr,” as she calls it) from a flourishing American relative, then locks it away, afraid it will get dirty from the ubiquitous dust in her village.
Paperback, 2018
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Elie Wiesel: Confronting the Silence
Joseph Berger
The first review calls the biography of Elie Wiesel I “an indispensable touchstone.” In praise (and defense) of Elie Wiesel, who spoke with ‘the aura of a prophet’ https://t.co/9wNPAZGbPV
Hardcover, 2023
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