Minyan: Ten Interwoven Stories by John J. Clayton; © 2016 Paragon House; ISBN 9781557-789204; 262 pages; $17.95 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Author John J. Clayton is a masterful story teller, whose universal plots are enriched by his familiarity with the Jewish idiom. Whether he is writing about children acting out in protest
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison“We Are Jews Again,” Jewish Activism in the Soviet Union by Yuli Kosharovsky, translated by Stefani Hoffman, edited by Ann Komaromi, Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY, © 2017, ISBN 978-0-8156-3519-2, p. 319, plus appendices, notes, bibliography, and index, $37.95 By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California – Many Jews participated in the 1917 Russian Revolution, ousting
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Murder at the River Ben Retirement Resort by Stan Schatt; © 2017; SelfPub: ISBN 9781548-656195; 235 pages. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – The fictional Miriam Lipsky writes detective novels, but when a friend accused of murder asks her to sleuth out who really dunnit, she finds the doing is not as easy as
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Strangers in Budapest by Jessica Kenner; Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill; © 2017; 337 pages. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Edward, a Jewish man in his 70s, and Annie, a young married woman in her 30s, are brought together by a mutual acquaintance back in the United States, a woman who asked Annie
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Story by Donald H. Harrison; photo by Shor M. Masori SAN DIEGO – Miriam Libicki, whose graphic memoir about life as a clerk in the Israel Defense Forces was on sale at the annual Comic-Con Convention, has been plunging into issues of personal identity: hers and those of Russian-born friends. She grew up in Ohio
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Story by Donald H. Harrison; Photos by Shor M. Masori SAN DIEGO – Trina Robbins is known in the comic book industry as the first female artist to draw Wonder Woman, back in 1986 for D.C. Comics. She went on to become a mentor for other women comic book artists, and that was apparent on
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Shor M. MasoriBy Melissa Levine, Lead Copyright Officer, Librarian, University of Michigan. The Library of Congress is in Washington, D.C. Valerii Iavtushenko/Shutterstock.com Imagine you wanted to find books or journal articles on a particular subject. Or find manuscripts by a particular author. Or locate serials, music or maps. You would use a library catalog that includes facts
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Books, Poetry & Short StoriesBy Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — Comic-Con is upon us, so we can expect hotels to be booked solid and the trolleys to be filled with an assortment of Jedi, droids, cyborgs, mutants, monsters and aliens. Like most nerds, I was a great fan of fantasy and science fiction in my youth, captivated by the
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SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Beth Israel’s Men’s Club will host Richard Lederer, Ph.D., as guest speaker at its Wednesday, Aug. 16, Dinner Forum. Lederer will take his audience on a joy ride through the glories and oddities of the marvelous English language. Attendees should be prepared to laugh and learn. He is the author
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, San Diego CalendarMajor publishers are vying for the rights to a memoir by James Comey, in which the former FBI director will outline his views on leadership and describe, among other things, his brief and controversial tenure in the Trump administration. Agents of the literary kind are now the only ones who Comey has working for him—and
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, USASAN DIEGO (Press Release) – Four weeks. Four sites. Four hundred students. Yes, United Way of San Diego County is going to need some help. In the second year of the “Readers in the Heights” initiative, helping students prevent summer slide and be active learners all summer long, United Way has expanded it from 40
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, San Diego CountyAuthor Stephen Senise says it’s no coincidence that Britain’s most infamous unsolved crime is alleged to have been committed by a Jew — it was planned that way all along By Robert Philpot LONDON — It is the greatest whodunit in British history. For nearly 130 years, writers, criminologists, historians and amateur sleuths have pondered
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Theresienstadt 1941-1945: The Face of a Coerced Community by H.G.Adler; Cambridge University Press, 2017 By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — This monumental monograph, to which no book review can hope to do justice, comprises more than 850 pages and constitutes a far-reaching and detailed account, or rather scientific analysis, of the concentration camp that was
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Jewish HistoryA new biography celebrates Béla Guttmann, the superstar coach who still has soccer’s greatest praying by his Vienna grave for a miracle By JP O’ Malley LONDON — On May 23, 1990, Eusébio da Silva Ferreira — considered by many to be one of the greatest soccer players of all time — took a short
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