Book Review | A Madcap Holocaust Holiday
An elderly Holocaust survivor dies and goes to heaven.
An elderly Holocaust survivor dies and goes to heaven.
In a recent article in School Library Journal, news editor Kara Yorio observes that for a long time, “[children’s] books about Jewish people or by Jewish authors fit into two categories: the Holocaust and holidays,” while Jewish secondary characters often seemed stereotyped.
Lori Zabar’s new book reveals the family history behind the iconic grocery store.
A European country bombed into rubble. Refugees streaming across multiple borders.
In her latest young adult novel, The Assignment, author Liza Wiemer asks readers what they would do to stop antisemitism—or any form of hate or injustice.
The most formative experience of my college years wasn’t in a classroom.
In the midst of a long conversation about men, women, love, sex and his own adolescence, the late Amos Oz reminds his interlocutor Shira Hadad that “the most important word in our whole conversation today is ‘sometimes.’”
Thirty members of the Sayeret Matkal, the elite commando unit of the IDF that rescued hostages from a hijacked flight in Uganda, share their memories of the rescue in a book, newly translated from the Hebrew.
Munich in the years following World War I was a nasty, bloody microcosm of the political catastrophes in Europe that preceded and followed Germany’s defeat in that war.
The time is summer, 1960; the place, Washington, DC; the protagonist, 16-year-old Carl Bernstein on his way to buy a suit for a job interview as a copy boy at the Evening Star, the city’s major afternoon paper at that time.
A whole generation has gone through the Jewish life cycle with Anita Diamant.
Barbara Goldberg’s poetry has always displayed an insatiable appetite for grief and desire.