Doppelhouse Press imprint: 11 books

Beginning in the early morning hours of July 16, 1942, and lasting for two days, the French police went beyond Nazi ordinances and took it upon themselves to arrest and imprison more than 13,000 Jews at a Paris sporting arena, the Vélodrome d'Hiver. For most of the Jews, this detention without water,...

Subject of The New York Times documentary "The Forger," winner of a World Press Photo Award and an Emmy Award As seen on 60 Minutes with Anderson Cooper "[An] engrossing literary debut. ... Writing in Adolfo's voice gives this suspenseful narrative candor and immediacy."...

"An engrossing saga, profusely illustrated and fully documented, the stuff that makes an intriguing feature film. I heartedly endorse it." - Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, Director, The Frank Lloyd Wright Archives "One of the more uplifting accounts of European émigré life that I have...

Jazz in Nazi-era and postwar Germany, as lived by a Jewish prodigy who survived the horrors of Theresienstadt and Auschwitz. "Coco, it's not important what you play. It's important how you play it," said Louis Armstrong to jazz and swing guitarist Coco Schumann during a break between...

Heda Margolius Kovály (1919-2010) was a renowned Czech writer and translator born to Jewish parents. Her bestselling memoir, Under a Cruel Star: A Life in Prague, 1941-1968 has been translated into more than a dozen languages. Her crime novel Innocence; or, Murder on Steep Street-based on her own...

‘Verklempt’, Yiddish slang, means ‘choked with emotion.’ In his latest collection of stories, internationally best-selling author Peter Sichrovsky aggressively dismantles post-Holocaust Jewish identity. These are love stories where love is a bitter pill, a joke, a missed chance at happiness,...

Two books by Maurice Rajsfus, a French activist and former investigative journalist for Le Monde, who shares his research and personal recollections in order to shed new light on France's role in the Holocaust. In the first volume, "Operation Yellow Star," Rajsfus meticulously analyzes archival...

In this memoir, replete with Jewish humor and sardonic Russian irony, exiled Russian journalist and human rights advocate Arkady Polishchuk (b. 1930) colorfully narrates his evolution as a dissenter and his work on behalf of persecuted Christians in 1970s Soviet Russia. Told primarily through dialog,...

Award-winning Austrian author Three little-known and surprising stories related to the Holocaust using photography as a thread for storytelling Translator recently bestowed a lifetime achievement award from the Austrian government for translations of Austrian literature Austrian...

Exciting hybrid of science fiction and literature. 2. Dietmar Dath is the winner of the 2009 and 2013 Kurd Lasswitz Prize, the equivalent of the Nebula Prize in Germany. The German author takes his place among such science fiction greats as Ursula K. Le Guin and Neal Stephenson, who have also been awarded...

An amazing game of mirrors. […] Original and promising. —LE MONDE 2014 Anton Wachter Prize for Best First Novel Golden Book Owl Reader's Choice Award Opzij Feminist Literature Prize 2014 Lucy B. & C.W. van der Hoogt Prize Nominated for the John Leonard...