Holocaust center to present Tisha B’Av film screening, survivor interview
The Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family Campus in Farmington Hills, Mich., will hold a virtual event and film screening of the documentary “Hidden” on July 30, along with an interview with Holocaust survivor Miriam Ferber.
The event is timed...
Online movie series to feature rescuers and rescued during years of Holocaust
The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous (JFR) is launching a Monday-night movie series, from July 27 to Aug. 21, each week airing one of its award-winning documentaries that highlight Righteous Gentiles who saved Jews...
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...
A tale of adventure, romance, and Russian anti-Semitism
A Bend in the Stars by Rachel Barenbaum, Grand Central Publishing, © 2019; ISBN 9781537-46288; 451 pages plus acknowledgments; reading group guide; author Q&A; $16.99.
Now in paperback, A Bend in the Stars takes its name from the...
Streaming movies about American racial violence
The Birth of a Nation: Not to be confused with the racist silent film of the same title, this is a reconstruction of the Nat Turner rebellion. Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu, YouTube
Black Wall...
The Pessin Affair
Salem on the Thames: Moral Panic, Anti-Zionism, and the Triumph of Hate Speech at Connecticut College. Richard Landes. Published by Academic Studies Press, 2020. 32.95 pp.218
At Connecticut College, in the Spring of 2015, Andrew...
Novel tells of a woman surviving as a man in POW camp
The Prisoner’s Wife by Maggie Brookes, Berkley imprint of Random House, ©2020; ISBN 9789593-197752; 400 pages, $17.
The young wife dressed in men’s clothing, with her breasts tightly corseted. She shaved her head and pretended that...
FDR not as portrayed in ‘Plot Against America’
In HBO’s recent adaptation of the Philip Roth novel The Plot Against America, American Jews are coerced by President Charles Lindbergh to move to rural parts of the country so they will become “Americanized” and...
Streaming movies about American anti-Semitism
Street Scene (1931): Elmer Rice play about immigrants living in a tenement reveals the stereotypes they have of each other.
Black Legion (1937): Bogart movie about nativist racist group in Detroit. Euphemisms are used, but Jews also...