Forget Russia: A Tale of Inter...

Dec 27, 2020 by

Forget Russia Bordetsky-Williams’ quasi-biographical historic novel, splices together three generations across two continents.

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The Unanswered Letter Demands ...

Oct 22, 2020 by

When a journalist comes across a letter written in 1939 she is moved by its desperate plea for help – and begins a quest to find the truth.

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Exile Music: The Sound of Sile...

Jun 25, 2020 by

Raised in Vienna, the daughter of classic musicians, Orly flees to Bolivia. Marvel at her power to survive, adapt and thrive in this captivating novel – Exile Music.

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The Prisoner’s Wife: Innocence...

Apr 23, 2020 by

The Prisoner’s Wife is a tale of epic proportions. It does not shrink from the cruelty of war which, in this telling, is offset only by the strength of love.

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“Anne Frank a Musical” Is a To...

Sep 19, 2019 by

With “Anne Frank a Musical,” producer-director David Serero has broken new ground. He and the work’s creator, composer and lyricist Jean-Pierre Hadida, are currently presenting American audiences with a cantata that is more of a tone-poem, a deeply felt response to an iconic story that persists as a shining beacon to a Jewish future whose mantra is “Never Again.”

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No, Natalie Portman, Illegal I...

Jul 22, 2019 by

Actress Natalie Portman, believes herself competent to compare Anne’s experience during the Holocaust to that of an undocumented migrant hiding in the US fearing deportation. The analogy is specious.

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Dan Rabinowitz, “The Los...

May 24, 2019 by

Dan Rabinowitz, founder and editor-in-chief of the Seforim Blog (seforim.blogspot.com), a website dedicated to the study of Hebrew books, has written a fascinating work about Vilna’s Strashun Library, bringing to light this institution which serviced a wide diversity of Jewish men and women and changed the nature of what a public library’s function could be.

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The Unrelenting Nature of Anti...

Apr 29, 2019 by

Historical examples of anti-Semitic strain hatred, and the libels inciting hatred and violence

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How Do We Know Anything about ...

Apr 10, 2019 by

The only way the past can be known is through a convergence of evidence.

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Holocaust Survivor Sol Lurie S...

Apr 3, 2019 by

Meet Sol Lurie, a native of Kovno in Lithuania, who was only 11 years old when the Nazis marched into his town in June 1941 and herded all the Jews into a ghetto.

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“Remembering Dvinsk̶...

Jul 17, 2018 by

Remembering Dvinsk provides a lucid account, without painting a romantic picture, of life in this historic town.

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