Finding My Mother Alive Again by Watching Her Holocaust Tape
By Linda Pressman (Kveller via JTA) — On June 28, 1998, my mother sat down to be interviewed for the Shoah Foundation. It was her…
Literature
9 Jewish books to read this summer
By Victor Wishna (JTA) — Sure, winter might seem like the ideal time of year for curling up with a good book — but summer is when…
Kirk Douglas: How the 100-year-old found true love
By Tom Tugend LOS ANGELES (JTA) — When movie star Kirk Douglas married Anne Buydens in Las Vegas, the justice of the peace asked Anne…
7 new books about the Holocaust you should read, according to scholars
By Josefin Dolsten (JTA) — From Anne Frank’s diary to Elie Wiesel’s “Night,” books about the Holocaust remain some of the most powerful and well-known…
Don’t pass over these 8 new books for spring
By Victor Wishna (JTA) — You know the story: When the Israelites made their exodus from Egypt, they fled in such haste that they did…