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Books Auschwitz would seem an unlikely backdrop for a love affair, yet this is a true story
Keren Blankfeld's 'Lovers in Auschwitz' tells of the relationship between David Wisnia and Helen Spitzer
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Books Picture book about family that celebrates Rosh Hashanah and Lunar New Year nabs top Sydney Taylor Jewish children’s book award
A Holocaust novel, a middle-grades story about an Orthodox girl and the publisher of the Sammy Spider series also got awards from the Association of Jewish Libraries
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Books This novel is a glowing portrayal of Israel’s early days. Now it’s being ‘review-bombed’ on Goodreads
Author Talia Carner condemned critics who described her forthcoming novel, 'The Boy With the Star Tattoo,' as Israeli 'propaganda' — but she agrees that she's written a Zionist book
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Books Anne Frank’s diary, ‘Schindler’s List’ among titles at center of major Florida book-ban lawsuit
The illustrated version of the diary has faced challenges, but Escambia County is the first known to pull the original diary
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Books Citing risk to Elie Wiesel’s ‘Night,’ Iowa judge blocks key parts of state book ban law
Iowa’s Republican governor signed the bill into law last year along with other culture-war legislation targeting transgender athletes and student pronouns in schools
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Books How did this feisty and ferocious Jewish-American writer fall so far into obscurity?
Mike Gold, author of 'Jews Without Money,' was an uncompromising leftist who epitomized the idea of a proletarian writer
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Books Florida district pulls many Jewish and Holocaust books, including Saul Bellow’s ‘Herzog’ and ‘Black, White and Jewish’
The Orlando-area district was the latest to purge Jewish- and Holocaust-themed books from the shelves in fear of a state law forbidding explicit content
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Books The best Jewish books of 2023
Grab one (or several) of these new classics before the new year
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Yiddish נײַ ייִדיש ליד פֿון ריקי רויז, „וואָס ווילסטו, מוטער, האָבן?“New song by Yiddish singing sensation Riki Rose — “What do you want, Mama?”
אין דעם אַרטיקל קענט איר אויך זען אַן אינטערוויו וואָס דער קאָפּאָזיטאָר און מוזיקער ר׳ צודיק האָט מיר איר געפֿירט וועגן דעם נײַ ליד.
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Culture Created in hiding during WWII, a Jewish artist’s underground ‘zines are finally rising to the surface
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Fast Forward Human Rights Watch’s top Israel-Palestine staffer quits over shelved report criticizing Israel
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Fast Forward Protests roil Australia ahead of Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s planned visit
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