Together in Manzanar by Tracy Slater
The True Story of a Japanese Jewish Family in an American Concentration Camp On a late March morning in the spring of 1942, Elaine Yoneda awoke to a series of terrible choices: between her...
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Dancing with Muddy: Muddy Waters, Eric Clapton, and My Lucky Life in and Out of the Blues by Jerry Portnoy
Jerry Portnoy grew up in Chicago hearing the blues being played outside his father’s rug store on famed Maxwell Street during the late 1940s and early ’50s. After dropping out of college, he became...
The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams by Jonathan Ned Katz
Eve Adams was a rebel. Born Chawa Zloczewer into a Jewish family in Poland, Adams emigrated to the United States in 1912. The young woman befriended anarchists, sold radical publications, took a new name,...
The Shelter and the Fence: When 982 Holocaust Refugees Found Safe Haven in America by Norman H. Finkelstein
The story of Holocaust refugees who found shelter in the United States–with unique parallels to today’s stories of asylum seekers. In 1944, at the height of World War II, 982 European refugees found a...
The Curious Case of Kiryas Joel: The Rise of a Village Theocracy and the Battle to Defend the Separation of Church and State by Louis Grumet, John M. Caher
Twenty years ago, in the middle of the night and on the last day of the legislative session, the New York State Legislature created a publicly funded school district to cater to the interests...
When the Diamonds Were Gone: A Jewish Refugee Comes of Age in America in the 1940s by Julian Padowicz
After a grueling and dramatic escape from occupied Poland in 1939, at age eight, Julian and his mother arrive in America in 1941 with big plans. Julian’s beautiful, former socialite mother Barbara wants to...
