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...
Mandy Patinkin Headlines San Diego’s ‘JFest’ June 4
Broadway’s master songman, Mandy Patinkin, accompanied by Adam Ben-David on piano, will bring his newest theatre concert Mandy Patinkin in Concert: BEING ALIVE, to Balboa Theatre on Tuesday, June 4 at 7:30 p.m. This powerful...
He survived the Holocaust, now he lives with the granddaughter of Nazi Party members
The story of a Holocaust survivor who today shares his Berkeley home with the granddaughter of unrepentant members of the Nazi Party will be told next week during a screening of the film “Near...
Yale Strom’s American Socialist opens in San Diego May 11
Eugene Victor Debs (November 5, 1855 – October 20, 1926) was an American union leader, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or the Wobblies), and five times...
A David and Goliath battle: Acclaimed documentary by Northampton filmmaker tells the story of...
‘Labor of love” might be a cliche. But when it comes to her new film, “Four Winters: A Story of Jewish Partisan Resistance and Bravery During WWII,” Julia Mintz says the expression is very much...
Holocaust survivors remember childhood traumas
Survivors of the Holocaust: True Stories of Six Extraordinary Children, edited by Keith Shackleton, illustrated by Zane Whittingham; Sourcebooks, © 2019; ISBN pending, 96 pages.
This set of six memoirs, illustrated cartoon style, is intended...
With Heirs’ Permission, Rube Goldberg Reimagined as a Modern 6th Grader
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...
Festival of best Israeli documentaries goes digital, with special track in English
The National Library of Israel’s sixth annual Docu.Text Film Festival is going digital, with a special track for English-speaking international audiences.
The festival, running from Nov. 15-25, features award-winning documentary films, question-and-answer sessions and an array of special...
Israeli short film ‘White Eye’ in the running for an Oscar
When Tomer Shushan had his bicycle stolen, the Israeli-born son of Moroccan Israeli immigrants went through a range of complicated emotions. Once he started the process of getting the bike back, he began 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...