Book Review: ‘No Forgotten Fronts’
During World War II, many people turned to The Washington Post for their news. On the other hand, G.I.’s who were former San Diego State College students turned to Prof. Lauren C. Post.
“Doc” Post, a professor of geography...
Prof. Jack Jacobs discusses “Jews and the Left”
JEWS AND THE LEFT RECONSIDERED
Thursday, June 22 | 7:00pm
Admission: Free
Lecture and Book Launch
In the last decades of the 19th century, and the first decades of the 20th, Jews held highly visible positions in a...
One-Legged Mongoose
A New York Jewish Memoir
“Marc Straus has written an astonishing memoir full of humor and hilarity, heart and vision. This year’s sleeper hit, I predict. A must-read!” —Mary Karr, author of The Liars’ Club and Lit
“…how a sometimes...
A Holocaust book for older preteens
That there are casualties and atrocities in war for both soldiers and civilians is summed up best by General U. S. Grant, “War is hell!” How about when there is no war? Should civilians...
“Who will write our history”, by Samuel Kassow
The Germans killed the people, the Russians the intellectuals and the others killed our memory wanting to make us believe that we died like sheep when the reality is exactly the opposite; the Jews...
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...
Adventures in Yiddishland. Postvernacular Language and Culture by Jeffrey Shandler
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...
Historian looks at Italian-Jewish efforts to fight Fascism
In the lineup of 2 0th-century "bad guys," Adolf Hitler usually comes out on top, with Joseph Stalin running a close second. Behind them, Francisco Franco often appears and, farther down, Benito Mussolini.
Now, with the publication...
New book: A slam dunk for African-American hoopsters who take to Israel
Canadian sports executive, lawyer and author of the new book Alley-Oop to Aliyah: African American Hoopsters in the Holy Land, David A. Goldstein is often asked why he decided to write about hasbara, or positive propaganda used to...
Book on rescuers, liberators, survivors of World War II gets new tech for new...
To commemorate the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II and the liberation of Europe from Nazi Germany on May 8—International March of the Living—a book about the era just got an...