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Donald H. Harrison is the publisher and editor of San Diego Jewish World.
Harrison began his journalism career in 1962 on the UCLA Daily Bruin. Following graduation he joined the staff of the Associated Press, and later became politics writer for The San Diego Union. Afterwards he pursued a career in tourism, helping to establish San Diego’s Cruise Ship Program as well as Old Town Trolley Tours of San Diego. He also wrote for such Jewish publications as the San Diego Jewish Press Heritage and San Diego Jewish Times before starting San Diego Jewish World in 2007.
Don’s latest work is the three-volume Schlepping and Schmoozing Along the Interstate 5.
He is the author of six previous books. Those with links may be obtained on Amazon.
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – The Samuel Project, filmed in San Diego and screened at the San Diego International Film Festival, is a gentle post-Holocaust story starring Hal Linden as Samuel, a Holocaust survivor who is reluctant to talk about what the Nazis did to him and his family. Despite prodding by his
‘Samuel Project’ stars Hal Linden as Holocaust survivor Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, San Diego Calendar, USA
At Vitoria: a City’s Medieval Promise between Christians and Sephardic Jews by Marcia Riman Selz;© 2016, Archway Publishing; ISBN 9781480-852976; 217 pages plus appendices, $17.99. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – While the Basque people of Vitoria, Spain, were Christians, like the Jews, they were outsiders, not quite like the other Christians of Castile
Friendship between Basques and Jews fuels novel Read More »
Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History
I Survived: My Name is Yitzkhak by Harry A. Butowsky, © 2015 Word Association Publishers, ISBN 9781633-851009; 201 pages including appendices, $18. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – This book came to me “over the transom,” that is, without any previous warning. Even though it is three years old, I’m glad that I
Surviving the Shoah by hook or by crook Read More »
Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – The new 16-unit Bellamar Point Loma condominium at the corner of Rosecrans and Byron Streets in the Roseville section of the Point Loma neighborhood gained some additional luster on Tuesday, Oct. 9, when Mayor Kevin Faulconer, City Councilwoman Lorie Zapf, and members of the La Playa Trails
Plaque recalling first Roseville Hotel unveiled Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego County
Editor’s Note: This is the 31st in a series of stories researched during Don and Nancy Harrison’s 50th Wedding Anniversary cruise from Sydney, Australia, to San Diego. Previous installments of the series, which runs every Thursday, may be found by tapping the number of the installment: 1, 2,3,4, 5, 6, 7,8, 9, 10, 11, 12,13, 14,15, 16, 17, 18,19,20, 21, 22, 23, 24,
Cruise ship fun at the Equator Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Travel and Food
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – If you were a reader of Harper’s Bazaar or Vogue, especially during the 20th century, you might have become very familiar with the fashion photography of Irving Penn, who was born to a Jewish father and Christian mother in 1917. He took up a camera in the 1930’s and
Photographer Irving Penn in retrospect at MOPA Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Obituaries & memorials, San Diego Calendar
Six Thousand Miles to Home by Kim Dana Kupperman, Legacy Edition Books; © 2018, ISBN 9781732-349704; 236 pages plus afterword, author’s notes, and appendix, $25. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – There are aspects of the story that are hauntingly familiar: A banging on the door and an arrest; people being crammed so tightly
Novel relates a lesser known Holocaust experience Read More »
Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History
One Happy Divorce by Jennifer Hurvitz Weintraub; © 2017 Warren Publishing, ISBN 9781943-258543, 93 pages, $12.95. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – “One Happy Divorce” sounds like an oxymoron, doesn’t it? Author Jennifer Hurvitz Weintraub wouldn’t argue that hers was pain-free, or that she hasn’t experienced periods of loneliness in the five years since
Some tips for a ‘happy’ divorce Read More »
Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Travel and Food
Hitler’s American friends: The Third Reich’s Supporters in the United States by Bradley W. Hart; Thomas Dunne Books; © 2018; ISBN 9781250-148957; 283 pages including extensive notes and bibliography, $28.99 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Former California Gov. Gray Davis, a liberal Democrat, and the Koch Brothers, billionaire businessmen and Libertarians often
Historian chronicles Hitler’s friends and fellow travelers Read More »
Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, International, USA
Struck: A Husband’s Memoir of Trauma and Triumph by Douglas Segal, © 2018, Prospect Park Books, ISBN 9781945-551383; 253 pages plus acknowledgments, $16. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Doug Segal, a contract writer and producer for Hollywood, wrote this compelling memoir after his wife Susan, a sometime actress, was severely injured in
Facing and recovering from near death Read More »
Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Science, Medicine, & Education
What the Night Sings by Vesper Stamper; © 2018, Alfred A. Knopf, ISBN 9781524-700376; 266 pages including appendices, $19.99. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –Set in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after the Holocaust, but with a lengthy flashback to the events that preceded the main story, this novel tells of a teenage girl’s struggle
Holocaust novel probes girl’s dilemma of self-definition Read More »
Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison
By Donald H. Harrison LA JOLLA, California – While the pro-Israel lobby does its work through public testimony, private meetings with members of Congress, and by making reportable contributions to the campaigns of candidates who support Israel, the opposing Arab lobby goes about its business in other, more subtle, ways, says Mitchell Bard, author of
Author tells SWU of workings of the ‘Arab Lobby’ Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, USA
Editor’s Note: This is the 30th in a series of stories researched during Don and Nancy Harrison’s 50th Wedding Anniversary cruise from Sydney, Australia, to San Diego. Previous installments of the series, which runs every Thursday, may be found by tapping the number of the installment:
Tales of two cruise directors Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Travel and FoodBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Scaffolding, a Hebrew-language film with English subtitles, is a story of Asher (Asher Lax), a troubled 12th grade student, whose temper gets him in trouble with teachers, administrators, and other students alike. Asher has no respect for boundaries, nevertheless he has about him an innate sense of justice.
Scaffolding movie constructs troubled youth’s story Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast