Book Review: An Address in Amsterdam by Mary Dingee Fillmore
By Deborah Shatz (EJNews) – What was it like to be a young Jewish woman living in Amsterdam during World War II? Author Mary Dingee…
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Bob Dylan sending acceptance speech to be read at Nobel ceremony
(JTA) — American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, will send a speech to be read aloud at the awards…
This former nebbish can help you become super popular — like him
By Curt Schleier (JTA) — To give you an idea of how uncool Jon Levy was as a kid, know this: His first kiss was in…
Dutch survivor’s diary called an Anne Frank story with a ‘happy’ ending
By Cnaan Liphshiz AMSTERDAM (JTA) — A Holocaust survivor dubbed “Rotterdam’s Anne Frank” in her native Netherlands published her wartime diary, which she wrote while hiding in…
Wirth Institute announces Jewish Studies Week at University of Alberta: November 7 – 11
(EJNews) – The Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies at the University of Alberta is hosting an exciting line-up of programming for their…