New Jewish Books
The newest episode of The Book of Life podcast, hosted by librarian Heidi Estrin, features a long and juicy virtual panel discussion about the Holocaust’s place in Jewish children’s literature. It’s called “Enough with...
Jessica Cohen, translator Beautifully translated from Hebrew, Our Holocaust is a novel narrated by a nameless child of Holocaust survivors. A prizewinner in Israel, it tells the story of relatives who are “collected” by...
By Anetta Glowacka-Penczynska, Tomasz Kawski, Witold Medykowski Edited by Tuvia Horev The Jewish community of the city of Kleczew came into existence in the sixteenth century. It remained large and strong throughout the next...
When Europe Was a Prison Camp weaves together two accounts of a family’s eventual escape from Occupied Europe. One, a memoir written by the father in 1941; the other, begun by the son in...
The Holocaust robbed Zofia Weiss of all she holds dear. The Secret State Police have confiscated her home, killed her friends, and imprisoned the man she loves. After searching through displaced persons camps and...
Pharmacology professor Michael Ross retires from the world of academia in 1970 and opens a community pharmacy in a peaceful upstate New York town. He puts the horrific tragedies of his past behind him...
Based on 1200 interviews with Holocaust survivors and their children transcribed during telephone calls he received in a 1992 campaign to help American Jews and other individuals reclaiming property they had lost during the...
In Honor of the 70th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz … The Dream Special Release … is there a way for past lives or past generations to return? Is there a parallel universe?...
SS Obersturmfuhrer Paul Meissner arrives in Auschwitz wounded and fit only for administrative duty. His most pressing task is to improve camp morale, so he establishes a chess club for enlisted men. Soon Meissner...
Seventy years after it took place, the Holocaust committed against the Jews of Europe during World War II continues to cast a giant shadow over humankind. Man’s inhumanity to man is not a thing...
