Jewish writers, Bible stories and Holocaust history are on new list of every banned book in the US
3 Jewish writers are among 10 most-banned authors on PEN America report documenting 33% increase in book bans
3 Jewish writers are among 10 most-banned authors on PEN America report documenting 33% increase in book bans
Senators and witnesses debated what level of parental involvement is appropriate in public schools and libraries
The Holocaust memoir gets a reprieve as Urbandale awaits guidance from the state’s Department of Education
The censorship of Paula Vogel's 'Indecent' in Jacksonville is a new and troubling development in the so-called culture wars
Look for deli raves, Nora Ephron and Yiddish women writers to dominate the new year
McMinn County in Tennessee recently banned their middle schools from reading Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel “Maus,” a work that for decades has powerfully introduced young readers to the realities of the Holocaust. Shortly thereafter, residents of nearby Mount Juliet held a mass book burning, during which they tossed copies of “Harry Potter” and “Twilight” into…
Have you ever discovered an incident from your own family’s history in a famous work of art? I have. As a child, my mother would tell me stories about our family’s experiences during the Holocaust. Some of them had happened to her parents, Chaya and Mendel, who had fled to the Soviet Union after the…
It would seem counterintuitive that a graphic novel featuring mice and cats as Jews and Nazis would be a more effective Holocaust teaching tool than the diary of a young girl who died in Bergen-Belsen. Yet, after a Tennessee school district unanimously voted to ban Art Spiegelman’s “Maus” from its eighth grade curriculum due to…