Before I tell you how Siggi Wilzig became a “Wall Street legend,” let me tell you about the kind of jobs he had after immigrating to the United States as a survivor of Auschwitz. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Business & Finance, Donald H. Harrison, Holocaust, International, Jewish History, USA
By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — Several years after Jewish Poets-Jewish Voices was inaugurated, one of the programs in the series became designated for the work of students, a showcase for student poets in our community. This year, that program will be on Zoom, Sunday, March 27, at 3:30 p.m. Sara Appel-Lennon, co-chair
Jewish Poets-Jewish Voices to Feature San Diego Jewish Academy Students Read More »
Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Eileen Wingard, San Diego County
By Toby Klein Greenwald It is always amazing to me how there are families who react to unbearable tragedy by creating something deeply meaningful and beautiful for the Jewish people and, indeed, for the world. This is what the family of Esther Horgen has done. Esther, 52, was brutally murdered by a terrorist on December
Scroll of Esther Honors Another Esther, Terror Victim Esther Horgen Read More »
Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Jewish Religion, Middle East, Toby Klein Greenwald
If you hear of a Jew appointed to a position of authority at one of the Nazi concentration camps, what word comes immediately to mind? Is it “collaborator?” In “The Nazis Knew My Name,” the late Magda Hellinger tells of her experience being appointed first as a block leader and later as a camp leader by the Nazis during her three year incarceration in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp complex. She relates that it was never her choice to be a block or camp leader, and that had she refused, she most likely would have been severely disciplined or sent to the gas chambers. As a leader, she was expected to keep order in the block, and later in a full camp, or else. [Donald H. Harrison]
Camp Leader at Auschwitz Details How She Helped Other Jewish Prisoners Read More »
Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History
Author Susan J. Cohen is a compassionate attorney who handles many immigration cases on a pro bono basis for the Boston branch of the national Mintz Levin law firm. This book, written with the help of journalist Steven T. Taylor, tells of eleven cases in which she helped immigrants obtain asylum or permanent residency in the United States. [Donald H. Harrison]
Attorney Provides Insight into U.S.’s Broken Immigration System Read More »
Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, International, USA
A Girl During the War by Anita Abriel; New York: Atria Books © 2022; ISBN 9781982-181185; 317 pages; $17. SAN DIEGO – Many people have asked themselves if they had lived under the Hitler regime, and if they weren’t Jewish, would they have had the courage to protect a Jew, knowing if they were caught
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts
This is a sexually explicit novel set in Romania during the Holocaust. The protagonist, Daniela Mielstone, is 15 years old when the novel begins and still a teenager when the Holocaust ends. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison
Enthralled by the stories Cysner told, Harris immediately asked the UC Santa Barbara History Department if she could change her dissertation subject so that it could be based upon Cysner’s experiences, both in Poland, where he was a prisoner of the Nazis, and in the Philippines, where he later became a prisoner of the Japanese. The department agreed, even though this meant changing Harris’ academic advisor and the schedule of courses to which she would commute from her home in San Diego. [Donald H. Harrison]
Cantor’s Archive Led to Book on Philippine Rescue of European Jews Read More »
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When the man and woman drawn to each other are both septuagenarians you know this will not be the usual type of love story, although a love story it is. [Donald H. Harrison]
Love and Foreign Travel Share This Novel with the Occult Read More »
Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison
By Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — Urim Publications in Jerusalem and New York has just published Faith Fulfilled: Megillat Esther and The Maariv Evening Service for Purim with Commentary from the Writings of Rabbi Eliezer Berkovits. It is compiled and edited by Rabbi Dr. Reuven Mohl. The book is excellent. Rabbi Berkovits’
A Scholarly Rabbi Comments on the Book of Esther and More Read More »
Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish Religion
“A Jewish Bestiary: Fabulous Creatures from Hebraic Legend & Lore,” by Mark Podwal; The Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, PA, ©2021; ISBN 9780271091730; 70 pages, plus bibliography; $14.86. By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California – Close contact between animals and humans, according to the Hebrew Bible, happened soon after creation: God brought them before
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish Religion
A Persian Passover by Etan Basseri (Illustrated by Rashin Kheiriyeh); Moosic, Pennsylvania: Kalaniot Books, © 2022; ISBN 9781735-087566; 32 pages including glossary; $19.99. SAN DIEGO – The red-cheeked children on the cover of this charming little story are Ezra, who likes to run, and his little sister, Roza, who adores her big brother. Unfortunately, Ezra
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A free-floating melody is in the ether; however, no one listens to it. The melody needs a sense of purpose. [Book review by Donald H. Harrison’
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish ReligionBy Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — Bart C. Ehrman is a highly respected historian who was once a protestant clergyman who became an agnostic when he saw what biblical scholars consider the numerous errors, inconsistencies, forgeries, and deceits in the New Testament. He offers readers in Forged a view of the conclusion
‘Forged’ Offers Real Insight on Bible’s Authors Read More »
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