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Need help curating a list of Holocaust books for your students or library patrons? What\u2019s on your shelf? What should be there? This podcast episode explores:\n\nThe most commonly assigned Holocaust books.\n\nWhy some of them are books you should never assign.\n\nRecommendations for books to assign, read, and share.\n\nGaps in the literature.\n\nGatekeepers of higher education.\n\nSusan\u2019s wish-list.\n\n\nOur guest is: Susan Kusel, who is the Library Director at Temple Rodef Shalom in Falls Church, Virginia. She is also an author, a children\u2019s book consultant and a former independent bookstore buyer. She has served on multiple book award committees including the Caldecott Medal and as the chair of the Sydney Taylor Book Award. She is a former board member of the Association of Jewish Libraries. Her debut picture book,\xa0The Passover Guest\xa0won the Sydney Taylor Book Award.\nOur host is: Dr. Christina Gessler, a historian of women and gender.\nListeners to this episode may also be interested in:\n\nDeborah Hopkinson,\xa0We Must Not Forget\n\n\nDita Kraus,\xa0A Delayed Life: The True Story of the Librarian of Auschwitz\n\n\nSusan Kusel,\xa0The Passover Guest\n\n\nPrimo Levi,\xa0The Periodic Table\n\n\nDoreen Rappaport,\xa0Beyond Courage: The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust\n\n\nDavid Safier,\xa028 Days: A Novel of Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto\n\n\nHana Volavkova et al,\xa0I Never Saw Another Butterfly: Children\u2019s Drawings and Poems from the Terezin Concentration Camp, 1942-1944\n\n\nLiza Wiemer,\xa0The Assignment\n\n\nElie Wiesel,\xa0Night\n\n\nSusan\u2019s\xa0wish list\n\n\nThe Blog:\xa0The Sydney Taylor Schooze\n\n\nThe Association of Jewish Libraries\n\nSydney Taylor Book Award\n\n\nWelcome to The Academic Life! We reach across our mentor network to bring you podcasts on everything from how to finish a project to how to take care of your beautiful mind. On the Academic Life channel we embrace a broad definition of what it means to lead an academic life. We view education as a transformative human endeavor and are inspired by today\u2019s knowledge-producers working inside and outside the academy. DMs us on Twitter: @AcademicLifeNBN.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/genocide-studies