The Christian Science Monitor
April 17, 2026
These are the fiction titles our reviewers liked best this month.
Read MoreIn The Spotlight with Abigail Pogrebin
April 14, 2026
New York Times bestselling author Judy Batalion discusses her debut novel The Last Woman of Warsaw, following two Jewish women in 1930s Warsaw as they search for love, meaning and home amid the growing threat around them.
Read MoreThe Suburban
April 14, 2026
“Have you heard about the attacks on Jewish students?” Not at McGill, Concordia, or Columbia Universities, but in 1938 Poland, the setting of Judy Batalion’s debut novel, The Last Woman of Warsaw. The line is spoken by a character after a police raid on a café where a Jewish comedy duo had been performing, in a novel rich in history but tense with foreboding on almost every page.
Read MoreThe Times of Israel
April 14, 2026
“Vladka’s story stood out — not merely for its drama and her tremendous courage — but for how it was written. She provided context, developed characters, and included details. I was entirely drawn into her tragic and compelling world.” —Judy Batalion
Read MoreThe Canadian Jewish News
April 13, 2026
But more than anything, The Last Woman of Warsaw is both an elegy for and a celebration of the largely forgotten world of Jewish feminism in Poland, once rich with opportunity and a vibrant Jewish female culture.
Read MoreNBC News Now
April 13, 2026
Judy Batalion discusses her debut novel, The Last Woman of Warsaw, set in the vibrant capital of Poland in the 1930s. It is about an unlikely and powerful friendship between two young women during the years leading up to Germany’s invasion.
Read MoreReadworthy by BookBub
April 13, 2026
Pam Jenoff recommends this ‘powerhouse’ novel set in 1930s Poland
Read MoreThe Forward
April 9, 2026
Don’t be misled by the title of this debut novel by Judy Batalion, nor by her previous book, The Light of Days, about the role of Polish-Jewish women in the anti-Nazi resistance.
Read MoreLilith
By Judy Batalion
April 7, 2026
Just weeks after submitting my laboriously-conceived dissertation on women’s collaborative art stemming from California in the 1970s, I stumbled on my next obsession and a new understanding of feminist history–one that would take me back to pre-war Poland.
Read MoreRead Her Like An Open Book
April 7, 2026
Q. As a memoirist, essay writer and the author of your New York Times bestseller, The Lights of Days, what inspired you to turn to fiction?
Read MoreThe Times of Israel
April 7, 2026
In ‘The Last Woman of Warsaw,’ out April 7, author Judy Batalion shows the Jewish diversity of the cosmopolitan city as an odd couple sets out to solve a mystery
Read MoreBook Notions
April 7, 2026
Q: Judy, would you like to give a brief description of each of your books starting off with The Last Woman of Warsaw?
A: The Last Woman of Warsaw is the tale of unlikely and powerful friendship between two very different young Jewish women – a fashion photographer and a political activist – and it’s set in dazzling, sophisticated and fashionable Warsaw in 1938.
Read MoreJewish Book Council
April 6, 2026
Toward the end of Judy Batalion’s The Last Woman of Warsaw, one of the two female protagonists — Zosia — tells a gathering of Jewish youth movement members, “I am trying to hold ambivalence, to respect complication and nuance.”
Read MoreWriter’s Digest
April 5, 2026
In this interview, author Judy Batalion discusses how a curiosity about 1930s-Poland helped inspire her new novel, The Last Woman of Warsaw.
Read MoreCBC Radio: All in a Weekend with Sonali Karnick
April 4, 2026
In her debut novel, Montreal author Judy Batalion writes about two Jewish women from very different backgrounds who come together in pre-war Poland,to find their professor who has mysteriously disappeared. The story is based on real Jewish women who were part of the resistance in Poland in he 1930’s.
Read MoreThe Jewish Standard Magazine
April 4, 2026
Native Montrealer Judy Batalion, the critically acclaimed author of several non-fiction books, most recently the New York Times bestseller The Light of Days, has published a powerful debut novel called The Last Woman of Warsaw.
Read MoreChick Lit Central
March 30, 2026
“The author sends a very powerful message about people who happen to be Jewish trying to live their lives while dark forces assemble against them”
Read MoreBook and Film Globe
March 30, 2026
April brings one of the year’s strongest publishing slates — major literary fiction, headline nonfiction, and a handful of buzzy commercial breakouts. These are the April titles that matter.
Read MoreSouthern Living
March 28, 2026
Your TBR stack is about to grow. April is here and if the old adage sticks, April showers are a great reason to stay inside and curl up with a new book.
Read MoreThe Schmooze Podcast
March 23, 2026
Author Judy Batalion visited with The Shmooze to talk about her latest book, The Last Women of Warsaw.
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