Supernatural Tales Embody Wishes of Holocaust Rescue
Courage to Dream: Tales of Hope in the Holocaust by Neal Shusterman with illustrations by Andrés Vera Martínez; New York: Graphix imprint of Scholastic Inc; © 2023; ISBN 9780545-313483; 245 pages plus after-words by author...
A memoir of overcoming racism
The Color of Love: A Story of a Mixed-Race Jewish Girl by Marra B. Gad; 2019, Bolden, An Agate Imprint; ISBN 9781572-842755; 233 pages; $17
At the age of three days, Marra B. Gad was adopted...
History of Conflict with Israel Tilts Toward the Palestinians
Although this book claims to be an objective history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it clearly is a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel narrative.
The author, Michael Scott-Baumann, a resident of Cheltenham, England, had volunteered for a group calling...
Couple’s Post-Holocaust Reunification Story Has Emotional Impact
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
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...
Investigative reporting ‘almost impossible’ in modern work culture, journalist Edward Jay Epstein says
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...
Book Presents 21 Jewish Role Models for Grade School Girls
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
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
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...
Jewish Historians of England
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...