Podcast: Jews among internationalists and nationalists in Moldova (In Yiddish)
From the three stories you hear in the "Autograph" section, I'm trying to read my electronic book "My Yiddish Shoes". You can see this book on the first page of our publication, among other...
Memoirs of a young female courier in Warsaw during the Holocaust
"Something will surely happen today." This is how Jews who have gathered on Rog street in the Warsaw ghetto talk to each other. One tries to be optimistic: "Jews, don't be afraid, you will...
Write the collection of memories of the woman you are
After more than a decade of writing a women’s column, I decided that it was time to write a book about motherhood. I wanted to explore the transition from a couple building a life...
Thirty-five years ago, a group of Jewish activists began to think of Queen Esther...
The Book of Esther is one of several books in the Jewish library that reveals horrors when re-read as an adult. Stripped of childhood candy coating, Haman is not some Marvel supervillain; his eliminationist...
The Berlinale’s ‘Where To?’ offers a roadmap for peace in a Berlin taxi
The film “Where To?” premiering at the Berlinale—part of the “Perspectives” section for first-time feature filmmakers—presents a way for Israelis and Palestinians to navigate the Berlin streets together.
By Israeli writer Assaf Machnes, it opens...
Book Review: “Holocaust Poetry” by Avrom Sutzkever
Poetic Grappling
Theodore Adorno famously said that “to write a poem after Auschwitz is barbaric.” Poets, of course, have never agreed with this, and certainly not Yiddish ones. The most famous poet of the Holocaust...
Meet Itamar Hayun: Author of ‘The Elite Warrior Mindset’
Itamar Hayun wears his many hats with practiced steadiness. At home, he’s the father to four-year-old Yonatan. In uniform, he has served as a reservist combat soldier in the Givati Brigade’s Sapper (Engineering and Demolitions)...
Confronting art and love as the Nazis close in
The New York theater world has been enriched in recent years by small companies of artists who are Russian-born and work from a Russian sensibility, though often in the English language.
In an interview, Roman...
‘His life is already a movie’: New series to chronicle the life of King...
The amazing thing about the biblical story of David is “how naturally cinematic the sacred text already is,” Jonathan Towers, vice president of development at FOX Nation, told JNS, as the network prepares to...
Book Review: “Warsaw Testament (Varshever tsavoes)” by Rokhl Auerbach
Among the writers who participated in the Oyneg Shabes archive, and whose works were preserved by it, was journalist and cultural activist Rokhl Auerbach. Her essays and diaries, which she kept both in the...