Emily Hahn (January 14, 1905 – February 18, 1997) was an American journalist and writer. Considered an early feminist and called “a forgotten American literary treasure” by The New Yorker magazine, she was the author of over 50 books and more than 200 articles and short stories. [Wikipedia]
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Love affairs between Arabs and Jews seldom turn out well. In this debut novel by an Israeli Jewish writer, such an affair ends as badly as that between Shakespeare’s fictional Romeo and Juliet. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Guri Stark, Alecia Rodney and Michael Moskowitz are the three poets to be featured in the Jewish Poets—Jewish Voices at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 21, program in the Astor Judaica Library of the Lawrence Family JCC. [Eileen Wingard]
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He identified Amon Göth, the commandant of Plaszow, whose brutality was graphically depicted in the movie Schindler’s List. Göth used to shoot inmates for target practice from a vantage point overlooking the concentration camp. Touring the camp, Göth would abruptly murder inmates on a whim. He reveled in making Jews quake. [Donald H. Harrison]
When Jews were expelled from Portugal, many moved East to form the Sephardic community we all know, but as many Jews, perhaps 100,000, moved West to the Americas in the 16th century. Today it is estimated that a quarter of Hispanic Catholics in the Americas derive from Jewish stock, with many now awakening to their heritage. [Mark A. Schneegurt, Ph.D.]
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The title of this book, referencing “tortoise” and “hair,” immediately brings to mind Aesop’s Fable about the race between the tortoise and the hare in which the slow and steady tortoise defeats the brilliantly fast but overly distracted hare. [Donald H. Harrison]
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I live the struggles of the Jewish people,
every day,
anywhere they happen.
Aren’t Jews one wherever they are?
Aren’t we one with the Jewish state of Israel? … {José Galicot}
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In 1966, a fire that started on a top floor of the 10-story Jewish Theological Seminary building in New York City destroyed 70,000 books and other written items. Many were extra copies of the books stored below; others were irreplaceable items such as the Torah scrolls sent for safekeeping from Danzig during the Holocaust. [Donald H. Harrison]
The plot of this delightfully written, dreamlike narrative revolves around Joel, a preschooler whose mother Lea committed suicide after asking Teo, a male friend who admired her from afar, to look after him. The life of Teo’s elderly father, Vic, apparently is resuscitated after Joel enters their lives. [Donald H. Harrison]
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In the USSR, Jewish life, Jewish religion and Jewish education were forbidden. Anyone who wanted to learn about Jewishness had to seek out ways to learn about it at his or her own risk. Jewish melodies could pour from different and unexpected sources. Lord George Gordon Byron suddenly turned out to be one such source for me. [Alex Gordon]
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This is a carefully compiled record of the situation of German Jews between 1907 and 1942, the last year being when the author’s father, Benno Neuberger, was executed for treason on September 18 in Berlin, and his mother, Anna Neuberger, was murdered on September 19 by the Nazi death machine at Treblinka. [Donald H. Harrisons]
Well-Researched Historical Fiction Tells Tragic Holocaust Family Story Read More »
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This book written for children between the ages of 4 and 9 will have adults chuckling and children delighted. The collaboration between author Sutton and illustrator Chappell prompts readers to wonder who is babysitting whom. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Mia, having learned from Edie Rose, makes a list and goes around to an interreligious and interracial group of neighbors in the building, who immediately agree to contribute foods for a seder … [Donald H. Harrison]
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The story, intended for children between the ages of 4 and 9, teaches several lessons. Author Kierzenblat’s main message reinforces the ethical concept of being kind to animals. Another is the fact that Jews lived throughout the Diaspora, incorporating into their daily lives the customs of the people around them. [Donald H. Harrison]
Children’s Book Teaches Kindness to Animals in an Exotic Jewish Locale Read More »
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