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Visual Arts Sweet Noise: Love in Wartime Max Hirshfeld, with essays by Michael Berenbaum and Stuart E. Eizenstat
Nonfiction The Volunteer: One Man, an Underground Army, and the Secret Mission to Destroy Auschwitz Jack Fairweather
Nonfiction Embracing Auschwitz: Forging a Vibrant Life-Affirming Judaism that Takes the Holocaust Seriously Joshua Hammerman
Nonfiction Quest for Eternal Sunshine: A Holocaust Survivor’s Journey from Darkness to Light Myra Goodman
Recommended Reading 5 Books That Informed ‘The Fortunate Ones’ Earlier this week, Ellen Umansky recalled the complicated kashrut of her childhood home. With the recent release of her novel The Fortunate Ones, Ellen is guest… Ellen Umansky February 27, 2017
Poetry Auschwitz-Birkenau, January 27, 2015: A Poem During this past week’s ceremony at Auschwitz to mark the 70th anniversary of its liberation, Menachem Z. Rosensaft penned a poem to commemorate the… Menachem Z. Rosensaft January 30, 2015
Essay Liberation Menachem Z. Rosensaft is General Counsel of the World Jewish Congress and editor of the newly published God, Faith & Identity from the Ashes: Reflections… Menachem Z. Rosensaft January 12, 2015
