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- American Association for Polish Jewish Studies
- The Australian
- Boston Globe
- Canadian Jewish News
- Commonweal
- The Economist
- El Espectador
- Ethics and International Affairs
- Europa (Italy)
- L’Express
- Le Figaro
- Financial Times
- Il Giornale (Italy)
- The Guardian
- Gazeta Wyborcza
- Harper’s
- BBC History Magazine
- Ethics and International Affairs
- Foreign Affairs
- Hoover Policy Review
- Gazeta Wyborcza
- Göteburgs-Posten
- Irish Times
- The Jewish Forward
- Jewish Journal
- Jewish Tribune
- Kiev Post
- Kristeligt-Dagblad
- Krytyka (Kiev)
- Liberation
- Literary Review
- Macleans
- Le Monde des Livres
- Moscow News
- The Nation
- The National
- National Review
- The New Republic
- The New Statesman
- The New York Review of Books
- New York Times
- The New Yorker
- NRC Handelsblat
- NRC Handelsblat, article 2
- Ottawa Citizen
- El Pais
- Público (Spain)
- Polityka
- Polityka, article 2
- Prague Post
- Die Presse
- La Repubblica
- Sarasota Herald-Tribune
- Seattle Times
- Skaityta (Lithuania)
- Slate
- Süddeutsche Zeitung
- Tablet
- Tagespiegel
- Times of London
- Trouw
- Tygodnik Powszechny
- Wall Street Journal
- Washington Monthly
- Washington Post
- Washington Times
- Die Welt
- Die Welt am Sonntag
- Wichita Eagle
- Wiener Zeitung
- Winnipeg Free Press
- Yad Vashem Journal
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Distinctions:
Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding, Ralph Waldo Emerson Book Award of the Phi Beta Kappa Society; Gustav Ranis International History Book Prize; Tadeusz Walendowski Book Award; Prakhin International Literary Foundation Book Award; Cundill History Prize, Recognition of Excellence; Duff Cooper Prize (shortlist); Austrian Scholarly Book of the Year (shortlist); NDR Kultur Sachbuchpreis (shortlist); Wayne S. Vucinich Prize (honorable mention); Best Book of Ideas, jury commendation; New York Times editor’s choice; Die Welt, Book of the Week; Book of the Week, El País, NRC Handelsblad Book of the Week; NRD Sachbüch des Monats; Bestseller in the US, Germany, Poland, Colombia; Books of the Year, The Atlantic; Books of the Year, The Economist; Books of the Year, Financial Times; Books of the Year, History Today; Books of the Year, The Jewish Forward; Books of the Year, The Independent; Books of the Year, The New Republic; Books of the Year, The New Statesman; Books of the Year, Reason Magazine; Books of the Year, Seattle Times; Books of the Year, The Telegraph.