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Friday, 18 May 2012 22:00
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Blooms of Darkness, in Green's graceful, grave and irresistibly readable English version, tells the story of Hugo, a young Jewish boy in an occupied town in eastern Europe who loses his parents...
Friday, 18 May 2012 13:00
In a humorous and touching re-working of Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence, debut novelist Francesca Segal substitutes for 1870s New York a tightly-knit Jewish community in present-day...
Friday, 18 May 2012 13:00
The gulag has never won the public profile of the Nazi concentration camps. Some 18 million people passed through the Soviet Union's labour camps. Millions died. But, for Russians and foreigners...
Friday, 18 May 2012 12:10
Contrary to Peter Beinart's thesis in The Crisis of Zionism, American Jews need not -- and most have not -- checked their liberalism at the door in order to maintain unwavering support for the...
Thursday, 17 May 2012 06:47
Erik Larson tells the story of an American family in Hitler's Berlin in In the Garden Of Beasts.
Thursday, 17 May 2012 00:56
Despite its sleazy exoticism, London's Soho in the 1930s boasted one local institution that catered to middlebrow suburbia.
Thursday, 17 May 2012 00:23
Morning Edition's Steve Inskeep talks to journalist Christopher de Bellaigue about his book Patriot of Persia: Muhammad Mossadegh and a Tragic Anglo-American Coup.
Wednesday, 16 May 2012 21:00
A lawyer and a caretaker with similar backgrounds follow different paths in contemporary Jerusalem with the same motivation: to leave their small-town Arab lives behind and be accepted for the new...
Monday, 14 May 2012 21:18
A Holocaust survivor who escaped from a Second World War labour camp has won a literary prize for a novel inspired by his experiences. Aharon...
Monday, 14 May 2012 13:00
Aharon Appelfeld, who lives outside Jerusalem, was born in 1932 in Czernowitz in Bukovina, now in Ukraine. German was his mother tongue. "I come from a deeply assimilated Jewish home," he told me...
Monday, 14 May 2012 13:00
An octogenarian Holocaust survivor has won The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for a novel loosely based on his experiences during the Second World War in which he escaped from a labour camp.
Monday, 14 May 2012 11:22
The following is an excerpt from "Chicago Stories" by Michael Czyzniejewski [Curbside Splendor, $14.99], a collection of humorous, fictional tales "narrated" by famous Chicagoans,...
Friday, 11 May 2012 21:00
The author wants American Jews to force changes in Israeli policy to protect the democratic legacy of Labor Zionism. He also explains why that's unlikely to happen.
Nearly all the considerable...
Nearly all the considerable...
Friday, 11 May 2012 13:00
Brick Lane, east London's most mythologised street, was once a labyrinth of Jewish immigrant culture and Hasidic custom. Orthodox Hasidim had settled in the area during the 1880s after fleeing the...
Friday, 11 May 2012 05:45
In Paul Preston’s history of the Spanish Civil War, the atrocities under Franco mirror those in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany.
Wednesday, 09 May 2012 05:46
I travelled to Rome and walked in O'Flaherty's footsteps across the city to the safe houses he used. In Ireland, I visited the homes of O'Flaherty's friends and relatives and began to build up a...
Monday, 07 May 2012 03:29
Walter Cronkite was an obscure wire service scribbler, just one of dozens of expatriate American journalists trying to describe the war against Hitler from bomb-ravaged London. Forty-eight hours...
Monday, 07 May 2012 02:19
Curatorial infighting, rivalry and the perception of a "glass ceiling" which kept Jews from rising to the position of museum director all colored Selz's tenure at MOMA.
Friday, 04 May 2012 10:00
The streets of the village of Ste Madeleine are steep and cobbled, with a château and a school run by nuns perched at the top. Jeanne and Marie-Angele attend the school, playing together but not...
Friday, 04 May 2012 01:55
William Dodd served for four years as the ambassador to Germany before resigning — after repeated clashes with both Nazi Party officials and the State Department. Erik Larson chronicles Dodd's...
Tuesday, 01 May 2012 06:53
The Metropolitan Museum in New York, in its current exhibit on the collection of Gertrude Stein and her family, has made a decision to suppress the ugly truth about her collaboration with Nazism...
Tuesday, 01 May 2012 02:00
While the right to self-defense is a principle deeply rooted in Jewish biblical and rabbinic sources, this week's Torah portion actually calls on us to think about how not to stand our ground as...
Tuesday, 01 May 2012 01:53
The online history archive Europeana has travelled Europe collecting personal stories of the First World War.
Sunday, 29 April 2012 23:55
The Patagonian Hare is full of Lanzmann's cloying self-regard, but we accept it for the single reason that he created Shoah, his 1985 documentary about the Nazi war against the Jews, one of the...
Sunday, 29 April 2012 18:20
JERUSALEM -- Benzion Netanyahu, historian, Zionist activist and influential father of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, died Monday in his Jerusalem home, the Israeli leader's...
Friday, 27 April 2012 03:05
News that Adolf Hitler's racist manifesto, Mein Kampf (My Struggle) would be republished in Germany was met with mixed reactions from Jewish groups. The Sydney...
Thursday, 26 April 2012 00:12
In my novel The Baker's Daughter, four chapters are from the perspective of a Nazi officer. Writing these was no easy task.
Thursday, 19 April 2012 03:07
A killer is doomed to live out the afterlife as Pooh Bear. A magical goldfish grants wishes, and disgruntled divorced dads abound. Welcome to the absurd and very tender world of Suddenly, a Knock...
Thursday, 19 April 2012 01:36
Alice is always ready for something new: a new thought, a new book, a new idea, new people. Her curiosity is insatiable. Well beyond an age when many begin to turn away from everything different...
Wednesday, 18 April 2012 13:14
The Walk of Remembrance was a one-hour peace walk on Wednesday evening through Northwest Portland to honor the victims of The Holocaust.
Wednesday, 18 April 2012 01:41
Having told us that Isaac is Abraham's son, why does the verse go on to state that Abraham gave birth to Isaac? The Sages have taught us that such a redundancy in the Torah must come to teach us...
Tuesday, 17 April 2012 08:34
On Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, I will remember the six million who perished -- and I'll also remember a man I met in Lithuania, a man I'll call Steponas. I didn't expect to encounter...
Monday, 16 April 2012 22:16
As we prepare to commemorate, Holocaust Remembrance Day, it is almost sickening to read how "the flesh and the skin were consumed in fire" (Leviticus 9:11), and even more so to consider these...
Monday, 16 April 2012 20:22
Umberto Eco’s latest masterpiece, a novel banned in China charting the devastating human cost of the blood trade, and a Holocaust survivor's haunting tale are all in the running to win the...
Monday, 16 April 2012 20:22
Umberto Eco’s latest masterpiece, a novel banned in China charting the devastating human cost of the blood trade, and a Holocaust survivor's haunting tale are all in the running to win this...
Sunday, 15 April 2012 10:30
Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli's autobiographical novels were the Victorian precursors of celebrity memoirs, says Daisy Hay.
Sunday, 15 April 2012 06:55
The Shunammite (a woman of the town of Shunem) is a wealthy married woman living in the time of the kings of Israel and Judah. She does lovingkindness out of a sense of abundance and majesty:...
Saturday, 14 April 2012 18:00
The son of an Ojibwe mother and a Jewish father writes about Native American reservation life in this nonfiction work.
David Treuer never planned on writing nonfiction. "I was happy working on my...
David Treuer never planned on writing nonfiction. "I was happy working on my...
Saturday, 14 April 2012 10:00
A NATURAL WOMAN is the story of how a nice young Jewish housewife and mother from Brooklyn conquered the world of music and didn't lose her mind in the process.
Saturday, 14 April 2012 10:00
A NATURAL WOMAN is the story of how a nice young Jewish housewife and mother from Brooklyn conquered the world of music and didn't lose her mind in the process.
Friday, 13 April 2012 01:27
Peter Beinart aims to save Israel from itself, and the United States from the Israel lobby.
Thursday, 12 April 2012 10:00
In his memoir If This is a Man, the Italian writer Primo Levi recalls that the most terrifying time for him at Auschwitz was not the years of incarceration by the Nazis, when beatings, hunger,...
Thursday, 12 April 2012 10:00
Reminiscent of the TV series In Treatment, Israeli-born Noam Shpancer's very readable novel gives readers the chance to access the secrets of the therapy room in fictional form.
Thursday, 12 April 2012 10:00
IN early 1945 defeat loomed for the Third Reich but something kept Germany and its citizens fighting the Allies.
Thursday, 12 April 2012 03:08
Bearing in mind that much of the church is already leaning in to its "Good Passover," I offer this trio of poems to wish you all a Kalo Anastasi, a very "Good Resurrection."
Thursday, 12 April 2012 00:15
Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli's autobiographical novels were the Victorian precursors of celebrity memoirs, says Daisy Hay.
Wednesday, 11 April 2012 09:26
A.N. Wilson's new book "Hitler: A Short Biography" is a fascinating portrait, but doesn't solve the mystery of how a third-rate artist and undistinguished soldier captured the German imagination...
Tuesday, 10 April 2012 23:17
Here is a European writer, one of the greatest and most eminent, for he is Nobel prize laureate Günter Grass, who has nothing better to do than to publish a poem in which he explains that there...
Tuesday, 10 April 2012 03:03
When it comes to the modern American Jewish experience, change is the one constant. Just about the only thing that does not seem to have changed what appears to be the outsized participation of...
Tuesday, 10 April 2012 03:00
While we need to make strong commitments to create meaningful religious identities and vibrant communities, love cannot flourish through the dogmatic imposition of one person's view of truth to...
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