Biblioracle: New book on Anne Frank considers both the person and the cultural pawn she’s become
Franklin dives into all of this by considering Anne Frank through a series of different lenses — child, refugee, prisoner, ...
How these Jewish genealogists are repairing Nazi ‘dirty deeds’
Genealogists volunteering for the Looted Books Project recently returned a volume to a 103-year-old Holocaust survivor in Florida who was given the book in 1930 as a gift for her good performance in ...
Nazis stole this Holocaust victim’s books. How his grandson unexpectedly got them back
Leibl Rosenberg, an official representative of the Jewish community in Nuremberg, Germany, has dedicated his life to finding ...
Jewish Journal13d
‘Fighter in the Woods’: A Book for Young Readers about the Holocaust
Scholastic Publishers has now produced a series of books written by Joshua M. Greene telling the story of young girls and ...
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Greenwood theologian's book explores religious responses to suffering, evil
The theologian-in-residence at First Presbyterian Church in Greenwood, the Rev. Cliff Cain, explores religious responses to ...
The Forward on MSN3d
Two middle-aged women defied the Nazis. One ‘wrote’ a book that betrayed the other.
Matthew Goodman tells the true story of Kate Bonnefous and her Jewish friend Etta Shiber, who rescued Allied soldiers trapped ...
Pierre Joris, Translator of the ‘Impossible’ Paul Celan, Dies at 78
A notable poet in his own right, he was best known for rendering into English the words of a poet who reacted to the ...
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The Soille Family Hides During the Holocaust
Esther Soille decided to go up the ladder through the back window to the apartment, for she believed that if the Nazis found ...
Uri Shulevitz, whose picture books evoked Holocaust survival, dies at 89
The Caldecott winner sketched his first drawings as a young Polish Jew fleeing the Nazis and grew up to become an acclaimed ...
The Atlantic15d
The Dangers of Philo-Semitism
After reading his book, I had no clue how downgrading the historical import of the Holocaust would enhance the struggle against racism. In the final paragraphs of the book, he applauds the campus ...
‘Six million different stories’ | ‘Violins of Hope’ author shares stories of Jewish musicians during Holocaust
On Saturday, the Knox County Library held an author talk to coincide with the exhibit. Dr. James Grymes wrote a book ...
Tennessean25d
Race, sex and the Holocaust: As book bans grow across the state, some genres see more bans
Even a surprising number of books about the Holocaust were removed in Monroe County. In addition, some books related to book bans were also banned: the classic “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury ...