The Long Shadow of Austria’s Nazi Past
Last spring, my wife Anne-Marie and I had traveled to Linz, Austria’s third largest city, to attend the May 4 ceremony marking the liberation, by...
What I Learned from Teaching Black Literature
In the late 1960s, Jewish professor Michael Krasny stepped in to teach Black Literature at San Francisco State University.
A Jewish Activist Remembers Surviving a Bombing Raid in Nazi Germany
“I wanted readers to see and feel what it was like to be a child subjected to intensive bombing,” writes Marione Ingram, who as a child survived the Allied bombing of Hamburg, Germany, in 1943.
Memoir | International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the Danish Rescue
Danes from all walks of life stepped up during the Holocaust to save Jews—including my relatives. How is Denmark observing International Holocaust Remembrance Day in the wake of October 7?
Memoir | Seeing Green in Southern Israel
The crisis in the agricultural sector is acute, but inside the avocado trees, my head swims with green, with the bounty of this fruit.
An Activist Remembers Her Civil Rights Journey
“I wanted readers to see and feel what it was like to be a child subjected to intensive bombing,” writes Marione Ingram, who as a child survived the Allied bombing of Hamburg, Germany, in 1943.