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...
How Vilna’s Jews Rescued Their Books From the Nazis
For hundreds of years, books played a powerful role in the lives of Vilna’s Jews.
The city was home to the two most influential publishing houses of religious and secular books, Romm and B. Kletskin,...
Escape by marriage: how some fled the Nazis
Persecuted. Engaged. Married. Marriages of convenience in exile by Sabine Bergler and Irene Messinger, Jewish Museum Vienna, 2018, 147 pages
We marry for love, romance, money, and to procreate and extend family lineages. Marriages of convenience...
Two books to read this summer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyL7zSGrI4o
The Jewish Century, Yuri Slezkine
The Jewish Paradox, Nahum Goldmann
You wouldn't believe it, but walking into a yogurt store I found this book, And as an art of miracle, I have to suggest...
Book review: The Punk-Rock Queen of the Jews: A Memoir
https://youtu.be/O6mV9DCIvyY
A heartbreaking story of a young Hasidic woman who escapes her community at 16.
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Transcript:
Normally we wouldn't have recommended it because of the title, but then we started reading it and we...
A talk with God about the Holocaust
For some, the issue never fades from memory. Menachem Rosensaft was born in 1948 in Bergen-Belsen, a Nazi concentration camp turned into a displaced persons camp after the war. His parents somehow survived the German Nazi onslaught...
Anti-Zionism on Campus
The demonization and delegitimization of Israel and bigotry directed toward Jewish faculty, staff, and students is increasing at dramatic rates on university and college campuses.
In these supposedly intellectual spaces, virulently anti-Israel “scholars” and student-activists connected to,...