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...
“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...
“ISRESILIENCE: What Israelis Can Teach The World” Available October 15
“ISRESILIENCE: What Israelis can Teach The World,” a collection of riveting true stories about people who survived against all odds and the lessons for us all, will be available on October 15.
Written by Michael...
Fun Yener Zayt Shvel: Geklibene Artiklen fun Sheva Tsuker
געקליבענע אַרטיקלען פֿונעם זשורנאַל אויפֿן שוועל
פֿון שבֿע צוקער
On the Other Side of the Threshold
Selected Articles from the Magazine Afn Shvel
by Sheva Zucker
"The essays gathered in this volume convey their author’s extraordinary energy and passionate commitment to...
“Der Bund in Bilder, 1957-1897” (The Bund in images, 1957-1897), download it and read...
Jewish labor organizing wasn’t limited to the United States. In 1897, organizers meeting in Minsk founded the Jewish Labor Bund to champion the rights of Jewish workers in Russia and Poland. The movement spread...
Spontaneous Lines: The Art of Rita Blitt
The bountiful new book, Rita Blitt: Around and Round (Tra Publishing, 2020), looks back at the long and prolific career of this notable American artist. If Blitt’s work is about anything then it is about the...
When hippies invented their own Judaism
Take yourself back to the 1960s and 1970s when Jewish hippies envisioned creating their own brand of Judaism. Kosher food mixed with marijuana. Come as you are davening with cushions in a circle, instead...
Ellis Island and the name ‘Kaputnik’
Visiting my family in this Contra County town, I happened across a book from the PJ Library titled Mrs. Kaputnik’s Pool Hall and Matzo Ball Emporium by Rona Arato. Now, I’m one of those fellows who...
Book chronicles 4,000 years of Jewish leaders
Essentials of Jewish History: Jewish Leadership Across 4,000 years, Brandon Marlon, Vallentine Mitchell, London © 2020, ISBN 978-1-912676-18-7, p. 514 plus bibliography and index, $89.95.
Jewish presence across the last four thousand years of recorded...
Half-Jewish boy survives Nazi school
The Boy Who Saw in Colours by Lauren Robinson; (c) 2020; ISBN 97818380-533540; 361 pages.
This novel arrived unbidden to my reading pile; its author evidently British given that the letter “u” that found its way...