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7 Elie Wiesel books that show the range of his influence
Jewish Journal
July 7, 2016
Most people know Elie Wiesel as the author of “Night,” one of the first published autobiographical accounts of what life was like inside Nazi concentration camps.
The secret of Warren Bennis’s success
Marty Kaplan
August 6, 2014
Though the size of Warren Bennis’s obituary in the New York Times was epic – all six columns across, filling most of the space above the fold on the back page of the A section – its text made no mention of something about him I always thought inextricable from who he was and the success he achieved.
Gwen Edelman reappears with ‘Train to Warsaw’
Jewish Journal
June 6, 2014
Author Gwen Edelman remains shrouded in mystery. In an age of relentless author promotion she has chosen to remain “virtually” invisible. She has no website or Wikipedia page, and it is almost impossible to find out the sketchiest details of her personal biography.
Survivor, storyteller, celebrity, sage: Elie Wiesel at 85
Jonah Lowenfeld
September 24, 2013
When talking about Elie Wiesel, who turns 85 on Sept. 30, it is far too easy to fall into a list of superlatives. As a child who survived Auschwitz and other concentration camps, Wiesel witnessed more death and more horrors than most human beings ever will. A onetime journalist who wrote for Hebrew- and Yiddish-language newspapers, starting in the 1950s, Wiesel has gone on to publish more books than most writers ever do, including “Night,” which has become the second-most widely read work of Holocaust literature in the world.
Jewhoo!
Jonathan Kirsch
June 19, 2013
One of the profound changes in American popular culture that emerged during the 1960s was the willingness of famous Jews to openly embrace their Jewishness rather than hiding it behind phony names and personas.
Jay Neugeboren gets reel with latest novel
Jonathan Kirsch
March 21, 2013
\”For far too long, Jay Neugeboren has been known as a writer’s writer and as the nurturing teacher of future writers,” Sanford Pinsker wrote in the Forward about one of Neugeboren’s earlier books. “It is high time for a wider audience.”
Comedy writer Sol Weinstein dies at 84
Jewish Journal
December 12, 2012
When I first moved to California from Philadelphia in 1978, Leon Brown, editor of the Jewish Exponent, told me to look up his friend Sol Weinstein.
Frankfurt ripped for honoring scholar who backs Israel boycott
Jewish Journal
September 6, 2012
Protests are mounting against plans by the city of Frankfurt to honor Jewish-American scholar Judith Butler, a staunch critic of Israel.
Authors return to scene of Israeli espionage
Jewish Journal
July 18, 2012
We think we have some important stories to tell, and thus we returned to the subject of Israeli espionage. Our first effort in that field was a book in 1990 titled “Every Spy a Prince.” Twenty-two years later, we spoke with more people and got more stories — about recent events, but also new details about important operations going back to the beginnings of the Jewish state in 1948.
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