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Couple’s Post-Holocaust Reunification Story Has Emotional Impact

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In Kaunas, Lithuania, a city also known as Kovno, David and Dora Ruskin married in 1938.  They had a daughter, Rose Miriam, in 1939, and came under Nazi German occupation in 1941.  After three...

A Kibbutznik Who Did Everything Well

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Chicken Man by Michelle Edwards; Montgomery, Alabama: NewSouth Books © 2008, ISBN 9781588-382375; 26 pages; $9.79 on Amazon. SAN DIEGO – For its October selection for 4-year-old children, PJ Library has brought back an oldie but a...
Journalist and author Edward Jay Epstein speaking about his book, “How America Lost Its Secrets: Edward Snowden, The Man and the Theft,” Feb. 1, 2017. Credit: New America via Wikimedia Commons.

Investigative reporting ‘almost impossible’ in modern work culture, journalist Edward Jay Epstein says

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Investigative journalist Edward Jay Epstein has spent time over the decades with spies, international criminals, globe-trotting billionaires and world leaders, including former President Richard Nixon and U.S. statesman Henry Kissinger. He has penned more...

The Pogroms in Ukraine, 1918-19

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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...

Book Presents 21 Jewish Role Models for Grade School Girls

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She’s a Mensch: Jewish Women Who Rocked the World by Rachelle Burk and Alana Barouch, with illustrations by Arielle Trent; Seattle, Washington: Intergalactic Afikoman; © 2023; ISBN 9781951-365110; 56 pages; $19.99. Twenty-one Jewish women whose accomplishments...

Adventures in Yiddishland. Postvernacular Language and Culture by Jeffrey Shandler

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Adventures in Yiddishland examines the transformation of Yiddish in the six decades since the Holocaust, tracing its shift from the language of daily life for millions of Jews to what the author terms a...

Book Review: ‘Inflitration’ by Joshua Kenaz

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The death a few months ago of Israeli author, Joshua Kenaz, led to renewed interest in his work, and impelled me to read this book (published by Am Oved in 1986). For me, reading...
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Jewish Historians of England

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Twenty Years On, Views and Reviews of Modern Britain by Peter Stansky; Pinehill Humanities Press, 2020. Peter Stansky born in Manhattan, graduated from Yale, Harvard, and King’s College, Cambridge where he earned his doctorate studying...

Novel highlights sacrifices of Ethiopian Jewish immigrants to Israel

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Kim Salzman, Israel and overseas director at the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh, spent more than 13 years writing her debut novel, Straddling Black and White, which she published earlier this year. “I gave birth to three...

With Heirs’ Permission, Rube Goldberg Reimagined as a Modern 6th Grader

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When I read on the back cover that this chapter book for middle schoolers had been published with the permission of the Heirs of Rube Goldberg, LLC, I was reassured that the name of...