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Items with the tag:

ghetto

Fic­tion
28 Days: A Nov­el of Resis­tance in the War­saw Ghetto
David Safier, Helen MacCormac (trans.)
Poet­ry
The Tale of a Niggun
Elie Wiesel, Mark Podwal (illus.)
Essay

Renais­sance Revealed: The Oppres­sion of Jews in Italy in the 1500s

Cather­ine Fletcher
September 14, 2020
Fic­tion
Beyond the Ghet­to Gates: A Novel
Michelle Cameron
Poet­ry
The Full Pome­gran­ate: Poems of Avrom Sutzkever
Avrom Sutzkeverk, Richard J. Fein (trans.), Justin Cammy (intro.)  
Fic­tion
The World That We Knew: A Novel
Alice Hoff­man
Essay

A Ghet­to in the Mid­dle of a City

Yes­ter­day, Gwen Edel­man wrote about a recent vis­it to War­saw. Her most recent nov­el, The Train to War­saw (Grove Press), is now avail­able. She will be blog­ging here…
Gwen Edel­man
April 24, 2014
Essay

In My Char­ac­ters’ Shoes

Gwen Edel­man​’s first nov­el, War Sto­ry, was trans­lat­ed into eight lan­guages, won the Prix du Pre­mier Roman Etranger in France, and was a Koret Jew­ish Book Award…
Gwen Edel­man
April 23, 2014
Essay

Jonathan Kirsch on the Ques­tion of Jew­ish Resis­tance and Her­schel Grynszpan

Jonathan Kirsch, book edi­tor of The Jew­ish Jour­nal, con­tributes book reviews to the print and online edi­tions and blogs…
Jonathan Kirsch
May 6, 2013
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War­saw Ghet­to Uprising

Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-TeeterToday marks the 70th anniver­sary of the War­saw Ghet­to Upris­ing. Read about the Pol­ish trib­ute here and learn more about the War­saw…
Nao­mi Firestone-Teeter
April 19, 2013
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Ire­na Sendler Read­ing List

Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-TeeterIre­na Sendler is one of the ​“Oth­er Schindlers.” Dur­ing World War II she helped cre­ate over 3,000 false doc­u­ments to help…
Nao­mi Firestone-Teeter
August 18, 2011
Essay

Tes­ti­fy­ing for the Holocaust

Last week, Deb­o­rah Lip­stadt wrote about eerie anniver­saries and Han­nah Arendt. Her posts have been appear­ing as a part of Jew­ish Book…
Deb­o­rah E. Lipstadt
May 2, 2011
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Beyond Pain Towards Celebration

Post­ed by Libi AdlerNew book by Naa­va Piat­ka, No Good­byes, hon­ors both of her Holo­caust sur­vivor par­ents’ pasts. Already known inter­na­tion­al­ly for her…
Libi Adler
October 8, 2009
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Icon of Loss

Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-TeeterThe touch­ing, haunt­ing paint­ings by Samuel Bak, inspired by the lit­tle boy from the famous Stroop Report pho­to tak­en in the War­saw…
Nao­mi Firestone-Teeter
October 1, 2009

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