NHPR
May 1, 2026
Check This Out features author and host Rachel Barenbaum in conversation with up-and-coming authors you may not have discovered yet.
"The Last Woman of Warsaw" is the debut novel by the author of "The Light of Days." It follows two very different Jewish women in Warsaw in the late 1930s.
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May 8, 2026
May is Canadian Jewish Heritage Month. To celebrate, here's a reading list of books by Jewish Canadians.
From nonfiction to poetry and even a picture book, these stories highlight Jewish Canadian voices.
Read MoreHistorical Novel Society
May 1, 2026
“The characters feel real. Their aspirations, fears, and confusion are believable and understandable. This is an excellent reminder that not all Holocaust survivors were victims. Highly recommended.”
Kveller
April 29, 2026
A kosher wine needlepoint kit, lucky mah jongg socks, a new Israeli cookbook and more.
Read MoreThe 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.
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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
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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.
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