“Letters And Cards As Holocaust History”, by Justin Gordon
There have been so many books and articles written on the Holocaust and from so many different angles, that it is hard to find something written anymore from a truly unique perspective. However, such...
Grigory Kanovich’s Remarkable Love Song For a Lithuanian Shtetl
Thanks to the hard work of his literary admirers, an English translation of Grigory Kanovich’s autobiographical novel “Shtetl Love Song” has finally appeared.
The novel was released by a boutique British publishing house, Noir Press,...
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...
“The Seasonal Jewish Kitchen: A Fresh Take on Tradition”, by Amelia Saltsman
Here, at last, is a fresh, new way to think about Jewish food. In The Seasonal Jewish Kitchen, Amelia Saltsman takes us far beyond deli meats and kugel to a world of diverse flavors...
‘Heroes of Liberty’ series pushes back against ‘woke ideology’ in children’s literature
Heroes of Liberty, a newly released book series for children, teaches values such as liberty and freedom amid what conservative columnist and commentator Bethany Mandel labels as a plague of “woke ideology” that is...
Sampling Israel’s Ethnic Groups and Restaurants
Author Ethan Michaeli is an American journalist with a knack for schmoozing with people wherever he goes. While he lives in Chicago, his older brother and parents live in Israel. He travels frequently to Israel to...
Love, not conflict, drives this pro- Israel novel
An interesting aspect of this multi-generational, multi-ethnic, and dual religious novel is that love, rather than conflict, pulls the plot along. Among the central characters in this ode to Israel and brotherhood, there are...
Rabbi- historian examines the destiny of the Jews
Rabbi Ken Spiro’s new book, Destiny, successfully guides the reader through the central themes of Judaism: the impact of Jewish values on civilization, Jewish determination, the disproportionate impact of the Jewish people, anti-Semitism and...
Author’s Vivid Accounts Range From Nazi Death Camps to Boston’s Worst Neighborhoods
From Broken Glass: My Story of Finding Hope in Hitler’s Death Camps to Inspire a New Generation, by Steve Ross, is truly an inspiring story. Interspersed with the author’s vivid recollections of being incarcerated...
What Elie Wiesel taught his students
Witness: Lesson’s from Elie Wiesel’s Classroom by Ariel Burger, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, New York © 2018, ISBN 9781328802699.
Elie Wiesel (1928 – 2016), Holocaust survivor and Nobel Prize laureate, perhaps best known for his memoir Night, and...