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Survivor, storyteller, celebrity, sage: Elie Wiesel at 85
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!
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.
Hungarian Jews seek removal of anti-Semitic writers from curriculum
Hungarian Jews urged the government to take four anti-Semitic authors off the national high school curriculum.
Author charged in Jewish online dating scam
American author Mitchell Gross was indicted for allegedly scamming women he met on an online Jewish dating service.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Studs Terkel dead at 96
\” . . . My mother came from Bialystock, near the Russo-Polish border, a very cosmopolitan town decimated by the Nazis. My father came from a suburb [and was] a tailor. Chicago is the biggest Polish population of any city outside of Warsaw . . . \”
Debbie Friedman, L.A. Opera, Norman Mailer and David Mamet
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Married . . . at last!
I got married for the first time at 50. The groom was 51. Yes, we are both Jewish. We met online.