The Unanswered Letter Demands an Allegiance to Remembering the Past...
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 Silence, a Journey from Vienna to Bolivia...
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.
read moreThe Prisoner’s Wife: Innocence Destroyed by World War II, Hope Restored by Resilience...
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.
read more“Anne Frank a Musical” Is a Tone-Poem with Dynamic Performances and a Piercing Inner Soul...
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.”
read moreNo, Natalie Portman, Illegal Immigrants in the US Are Not Equatable to Anne Frank...
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.
read moreDan Rabinowitz, “The Lost Library: The Legacy of Vilna’s Strashun Library in the Aftermath of the Holocaust”...
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.
read moreThe Unrelenting Nature of Antisemitism...
Historical examples of anti-Semitic strain hatred, and the libels inciting hatred and violence
read moreHow Do We Know Anything about the Holocaust?...
The only way the past can be known is through a convergence of evidence.
read moreHolocaust Survivor Sol Lurie Says His Destiny Was to Outlive Hitler and Educate a New Generation to Love Rather Than Hate...
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.
read more“Remembering Dvinsk” Is for Those Who Refuse to Forget...
Remembering Dvinsk provides a lucid account, without painting a romantic picture, of life in this historic town.
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