This vivid and moving memoir describes the survival of a Jewish child in the hell of Nazi occupied Poland. Rubin Katz was born in Ostrowiec Swietokrzyskie, Poland, in 1931. This town, located in the p
Development, Learning, and Community uses data drawn from a study of pluralistic Jewish high schools to illustrate the complex and often challenging interplay between the cognitive and socio-aff ectiv
Nina Sadur, the playwright, occupies a prominent place in the Soviet/Russian drama pantheon of the 1980s and 1990s, a group that has with few exceptions been generally ignored by the Western literary
Central to this autobiography, Holocaust survivor Simon Malkes relates the story of a Nazi officer's role in saving Malkes, his family and a large number of other Jews from extermination. Malkes was b
From her immigration to Mandatory Palestine in 1933 until her death in 1950 American-born Dorothy Kahn Bar-Adon worked as a reporter for The Palestine Post (later The Jerusalem Post), while freelancin
The publication of "The White Chalk of Days: The Contemporary Ukrainian Literature Series Anthology" commemorates the tenth year of the Contemporary Ukrainian Literature Series. Co-sponsored by the Uk
The armed conflict in the east of Ukraine brought about an emergence of a distinctive trend in contemporary Ukrainian poetry: the poetry of war. Directly and indirectly, the poems collected in this vo
"A New Life in Israel, 1950-1954" is the last book in the trilogy about Shimon Redlich’s childhood and adolescence. In "Together and Apart in Brzezany" he discussed his childhood in prewar and wartime
A collection of essays which reflects the author’s skills and her ability to communicate and educate on a variety of levels. Her writing is informative and inspiring, passionate and poignant and rang
"Class of ’31" is a beautifully written memoir from Walter Jessel, a German Jew determined to answer the question that haunted him since emigrating to the United States in 1938: “Would the people of o
"Thoughts of a Polish Jew: To Kasieka from grandpa is a document of a personal and family memory, authored by Artur Lilien-Brzozdowiecki (1890-1958) in 1944/45. This memoir, which was written in Polis
Author Regina Grol is a professor of Polish and East European Studies. Here, she tells the story of her parents’ survival during the Holocaust, drawing on letters, historical documents, and interviews
Marianna Tax Choldin has studied censorship in Russia for 40 years. She describes the tension between her strong commitment to freedom of expression and her growing understanding of Russian and Soviet
This book tells the story of Krystyna Bierzynska, an acculturated Polish Jew, from her birth in Warsaw in 1928 up to the war’s end in May 1945, when she was reunited with her brother, Dolek, an office
For some twenty years from the late 1960s, and thereafter following a brief pause, representatives of British Jewry’s religious orientations held closed-door meetings at the Chief Rabbi’s residence in
This classic book of essays from the mid-1980s blends humor, nostalgia and cultural commentary with the practical problems of adjusting one’s digestion and cooking habits to a new country with complet
"100 Conversations You Need to Have" is an accessible and thought-provoking collection of life’s big questions and corresponding answers from some of history’s greatest philosophers. Readers are provi
This memoir is about a Jewish baby born in the Krakow ghetto in November 1942, three years after Hitler conquered Poland, and, remarkably, escaping death—one of a mere one half of one percent of Jewis
"Wheat Songs" is a memoir of two interconnected Greek-American Odysseys—an actual physical journey for the grandfather, Pericles Rizopoulos, and a philosophical quest by the author, Perry Giuseppe Riz
By its very nature, the ideals of religion entail sin and failure. Judaism has its own language and framework for sin that expresses themselves both legally and philosophically. Both legal questions –
