Tag: Books
Is ‘A Court of Thrones and Roses’ author Sarah J. Maas Jewish?
Fantasy novels are full of deadly trials, ancient magic, and brooding love interests. But for millions of readers, the worlds created by Sarah J. Maas have always carried something quieter beneath the spectacle: traces...
Write the collection of memories of the woman you are
After more than a decade of writing a women’s column, I decided that it was time to write a book about motherhood. I wanted to explore the transition from a couple building a life...
Ann Godoff, founding publisher of Penguin Press, dies at 76
Ann Godoff, the influential publishing executive who helped launch and shape the careers of several bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning authors, died of complications from bone cancer in Albany, N.Y., on Feb. 24. She was...
Book Review: “Holocaust Literature” books
When we hear the term “Holocaust literature” we often associate it with books about the Holocaust—Elie Wiesel’s Night being a particularly famous example. But “Holocaust literature” can also carry a quite different meaning—that is, literature written during the...
Bookshelves – by Dennis A Gura
We’ve something like
One hundred and fifty
Bookshelves in our house.
Some might think that
Excessive, but as I am
Of a bookish disposition
I think this is about right:
Enough that there is always
Something at hand, interesting to read
Enough that
I...
Meet Itamar Hayun: Author of ‘The Elite Warrior Mindset’
Itamar Hayun wears his many hats with practiced steadiness. At home, he’s the father to four-year-old Yonatan. In uniform, he has served as a reservist combat soldier in the Givati Brigade’s Sapper (Engineering and Demolitions)...
‘Hairspray’ to ‘South Park’: A story shaped by Jewish humor
Marc Shaiman likes to joke that for half a century he’s been “the funny Jewish guy at the piano,” a role as old as vaudeville and as enduring as a well-timed joke.
But behind the...
Still learning of liberators, all these years later
Like many children of survivors, Bernice Lerner has spent most of her life ruminating on the Holocaust and writing about big questions. How was the Holocaust allowed to occur? What is the connection between...
‘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...
New book reunites letters of Holocaust survivors that show how ‘unsettling’ it is to...
Goldie Morgentaler was going through her late mother Chava Rosenfarb’s belongings in 2011 when she found a package of letters in Polish. When Morgentaler opened them, she was surprised to see that they weren’t...