Terrorism, a war criminal and the Middle East
Jewish Journal
May 31, 2013
Foreign films abound this summer, with several that concern the Middle East in various ways.
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review
Memories of Auschwitz, on a return trip
Jewish Journal
May 15, 2013
How does any man survive unspeakable trauma? After 70 years of controlled silence, Otto Dov Kulka, Czech-born Holocaust historian and Professor of History at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, has come forward to show us his roadmap in “Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death: Reflections on Memory and Imagination” (Allen Lane/Penguin: $23.95), an intricate journey of muffled grief and remembering, translated by Ralph Mandel.
What it really feels like to be alive today
Jewish Journal
May 7, 2013
David Shields, author of the hotly debated “Reality Hunger: A Manifesto,” has bewitched us once again with his innovative genre-bending meditation “How Literature Saved My Life” (Knopf, $29.95).
‘My Mother’s Wars’: Witness From Afar
Jonathan Kirsch
April 24, 2013
I met Lillian Faderman last Saturday when we both appeared on a panel titled “Holocaust Lives” at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. To be sure, the Holocaust figures crucially in her new memoir, “My Mother’s Wars” (Beacon Press, $25.95), but her book is more than a testimony of the Holocaust — it is a love story, a family memoir and, above all, an American tale.
The comfort of lies
Jewish Journal
April 9, 2013
The ups and downs of everyday life, the many dramatic struggles woven into the fabric of life, provide writers—this group of shameless voyeurs and hoarders of stories—with invaluable ideas for our novels.
Yiddish: The enduring language
Jonathan Kirsch
March 1, 2013
Among the many ways the Jewish people have sought to honor the Six Million, perhaps none is so life-affirming as the revival of interest in Yiddish, the mother tongue of the vast majority of the men, women and children murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators.
Elie Wiesel and questions of God and duty
Jewish Journal
February 15, 2013
The madness always calls him back. You only have to glance at Elie Wiesel’s tortured face to know that he is always at risk. Even after the countless novels and the Nobel Peace Prize.
Perspectives on occupation: Lessons from Israeli society
Jonathan Kirsch
January 23, 2013
The argument over Israel’s presence in the territories beyond the Green Line has recently come to focus almost exclusively on security issues, but there is literally no aspect of life in Israel that is not affected by its settlement policies. Indeed, the Jewish identity of Israel, and even the prospects for its continued existence, are called into question.
An age of broken glances: On ‘Why Love Hurts’
Rabbi David Wolpe
December 19, 2012
Each time I officiate at a marriage, I perpetrate a small fraud. I read the ketubah, the marriage contract, in its original Aramaic and then I read the “translation.\”
Who is a Jew?
Jonathan Kirsch
December 5, 2012
When Theodore Ross was just a boy, his mother took something away from him and never gave it back — his Jewish identity.
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