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Tag: Holocaust Memoir

0 Food Holocaust

Ten Minute Lox Salad

Leah Koenig in Jewish Table · 19 Feb

Leah Koenig's newsletter features a delightful collaboration with journalist and author Bonny Reichert, who shares a quick Ten Minute Lox Salad, a recipe cherished from her childhood.

0 Literature Culture

Teen novel about women vampires wins a top prize for Jewish children’s books

Penny Schwartz in JTA · 27 Jan

Night Owls, a debut novel by A.R. Vishny about two sisters who transform into estries, Jewish vampire folklore figures, has won the Sydney Taylor Book Award's gold medal for young adult fiction.

0 Holocaust History

New Holocaust memoir shifts the focus from survivors to descendants

Julia M. Klein in Forward · 23 Jul 2024

"Irena's Gift: An Epic World War II Memoir of Sisters, Secrets, and Survival" by Karen Kirsten explores the experiences of Polish Jewish survivors and their descendants, shifting the focus from survivors to their progeny.

0 Education Literature

Citing risk to Elie Wiesel’s ‘Night,’ Iowa judge blocks key parts of state book ban law

Andrew Lapin in Forward · 3 Jan 2024

A federal judge in Iowa has blocked key parts of a state law that prohibits school libraries from stocking books depicting sex acts, citing that it would prevent books about the Holocaust, such as Elie Wiesel's Night, from being accessible.

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Jewish Lives · 20 Apr 2023

Elie Wiesel, the author of Night and a Nobel Peace Prize recipient, is the focus of a new Jewish Lives biography by Joseph Berger called Elie Wiesel: Confronting the Silence.