A Thanksgiving movie marathon with Jewish flavor
Why just watch the Macy’s parade when you can celebrate the holiday with flicks like “Fiddler on the Roof” and “The Ten Commandments?”
In addition to cooking all day and eating to your heart’s content...
The Pessin Affair
Salem on the Thames: Moral Panic, Anti-Zionism, and the Triumph of Hate Speech at Connecticut College. Richard Landes. Published by Academic Studies Press, 2020. 32.95 pp.218
At Connecticut College, in the Spring of 2015, Andrew...
A Jewish Tale Woven Through Napoleon’s Campaign in Egypt and Eretz Israel
Napoleon’s Mirage by Michelle Cameron; Berkeley, California: She Writes Press; © 2024; ISBN 9781647-426200; 256 pages; $17.99; publication date: November 12, 2024.
This Jewish love story is woven into an account of Napoleon’s unsuccessful war in...
Still learning of liberators, all these years later
Like many children of survivors, Bernice Lerner has spent most of her life ruminating on the Holocaust and writing about big questions. How was the Holocaust allowed to occur? What is the connection between...
A Jewish Academia Novel Set in 1960 Still Resonates
I started reading academia novels in the 1960s with Edward Albee’s tempestuous boozy Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf, then the jocular Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis, a hoot, a romp, filled with junior faculty insecurities.
My radar sought...
The Pogroms in Ukraine, 1918-19
Between 1918 and 1921 an estimated 100,000 Jewish people were killed, maimed or tortured in pogroms in Ukraine. Hundreds of Jewish communities were burned to the ground and hundreds of thousands of people were...
‘Mufti’ Will Satisfy Neither Historians nor Graphic Arts Fans
Mufti: The True Story of the Man who Collaborated with Hitler and the Nazis to Create the Evil Legacy of Modern Jihad by John Hawkins; independently published; © 2024; ISBN 9798339-692140; 143 pages; $29.99 on...
“Vu di velt hot nor an ek” (Through an Endless Stretch of Land), by...
"Vu di velt hot nor an ek" (Through an Endless Stretch of Land), by Kadya Molodowsky. Children's poems in Yiddish and English.
Yaira Singer has collected, translated, and illustrated her favorite children's poems by legendary...
Belonging: The Story of the Jews, 1492-1900. By Simon Schama
“SOMETIME, somewhere, between Africa and Hindustan, lay a river so Jewish it observed the Sabbath.” “Belonging”, the second volume of Simon Schama’s story of the Jews, begins with this pious waterway, and continues with...
Art Up Nation pop-up exhibit showcases many of Israel’s leading artists
More than 200 curated Israeli artworks were on display in New York City last week as part of the inaugural Art Up Nation exhibition. The initiative showcased the vibrancy of the art scene in...