“Let There Be Light” Finds Meaning Between the Lines
Liana Finck’s “Let There Be Light: The Real Story of Her Creation” is hardly the first time a mere mortal has reinterpreted the story...
Last Word: Creating a Protagonist with Joel Burcat
Joel Burcat claims he didn’t base his protagonist Mike Jacobs on himself, but the similarities are undoubtedly there.
Both are environmental lawyers, Jewish and attended...
‘The Boy in the Striped Pajamas,’ Decried for its Holocaust Inaccuracies, Is Getting a...
A best-selling children’s novel that the Auschwitz Memorial and Museum has said “should be avoided by anyone who studies or teaches about the history of the Holocaust” is getting a sequel.
Book Suggests Alexander Hamilton Was Jewish
Andrew Porwancher is uncomfortable drawing comparisons between himself and Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Books: ‘Last Resort’s Slow, Satisfying Suspense
"Last Resort"
Andrew Lipstein
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
At my alma mater Bryn Mawr College — only a mile away from its cousin Haverford College, where both...
Dvora Hacohen, Joshua Cohen, Dara Horn Win Big at 2021 National Jewish Book Awards
Dvora Hacohen’s biography of Hadassah founder Henriette Szold won two honors, including Jewish Book of the Year, from the Jewish Book Council in their annual awards list.
Books: ‘Tunnels’ Digs for Complicated Truth
“Tunnels”
Rutu Modan
Drawn & Quarterly
In graphic novelist Rutu Modan’s most recent work “Tunnels,” published on Nov. 2 by Drawn & Quarterly, archaeologist Nili is hardly...
From ‘Tree of Sorrow’ to Family Trees: Passing Down Holocaust Memories
Richard Bank’s pocket watch, given to him by his grandfather and Shoah survivor Ludwig Frank, hasn’t kept time for decades, save for two occasions.
The...
Local Family Publishes Holocaust Book
Maurice Chorney was one of those Holocaust survivors who never really talked about his experience.
But when his daughter, Helene Shipon, was moving Chorney from...
Books: Palatable Pandemic, Familiar Face Returns
“Our Country Friends” Makes Pandemic Palatable
“Our Country Friends”
Gary Shteyngart
Penguin Random House
For Gary Shteyngart, who wrote about the painful adult consequences of his botched circumcision...
