Donald H Harrison
Harrison is editor of San Diego Jewish World. He may be contacted via donald.harrison@sdjewishworld.com
A Detailed History of the Campaign to Free Soviet Jews
Future historians will consider this book a great find as it details over 20 years of protest, militancy, press releases, controversy, speeches, victories, and defeats in the campaign by secular American Jews to win...
Book for Toddlers Tells of the Lights of Shabbat
This tale for tots conflates the light of Shabbat candles with other pleasant and helpful lights that they might encounter. These include a flashlight helping people to find their way; lanterns at an evening...
Factual Errors Detract from Jewish Family Saga
This is a novel that traces a Jewish family through several generations from a shtetl in Poland to the big city of Warsaw, and later onward to Scotland, Germany, and England over the course...
Love and Foreign Travel Share This Novel with the Occult
When the man and woman drawn to each other are both septuagenarians you know this will not be the usual type of love story, although a love story it is.
Roger and Frannie had been...
Morris Casuto, 79, Defender of the Jewish People
Morris Casuto, the Anti-Defamation League regional director who defended San Diego County’s Jewish community against antisemites while forging good relations with other ethnic and religious groups within the county, died from leukemia Friday night,...
Novelists Paint Complex Portrait of Hitler
Here is a mixture of history, biography, and pure fiction depicting the political maneuvering of Adolf Hitler and the people closest to him between 1934 and 1938, the tumultuous years preceding World War II.
The...
Murder and Approaching Death Fill a Tale of Hoffman
Author Wayne Hoffman regales us with two concurrent non-fiction stories. His search to learn the identity of the person who murdered his great-grandmother as she lay sleeping in her bed, with an infant child...
Author Tells of Survivor Mother and the Extraordinary Medical Campaign that Saved Her
This is an academic work, yet a very personal one for Bernice Lerner of Boston University’s Center for Character and Social Responsibility. The Jewish girl referred to in the subtitle was author Lerner’s mother,...
An Entire Book in 12 Words
Can you imagine an entire book in 12 words, not including the title?
That last sentence took one more word than that.
Yet a 12-word book was the successful collaboration of author Tammar Stein and artist...
Sampling Israel’s Ethnic Groups and Restaurants
Author Ethan Michaeli is an American journalist with a knack for schmoozing with people wherever he goes. While he lives in Chicago, his older brother and parents live in Israel. He travels frequently to Israel to...