Notable Books
Notable Books Scrolls of Testimony Abba Kovner, translated by Dr. Edward Levenston (Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, 2001) Abba Kovner—commander of Jewish partisans in the Vilna...
...Jewish life in 18th century rural Germany...
...The book, subsequently published in Hebrew, now makes its English debut (paired with Samuel Bak's illustrations...
...It was a miraculous discovery since the Nazis were known to confiscate and destroy all personal photos...
...HT The Last Album—Eyes From the Ashes of Auschwitz-Birkenau Ann Weiss (New York: W.W...
...Gallagher, waxing wistful about the what-ifs of fate, wants to reach through time to tell her aunts: "Ladies, go into the restaurant...
...It's not clear how these photos were saved, but Weiss offers several hypotheses...
...A study of Nazi Germany's relationship with the five European "neutrals...
...Portraits of Our Past—Jews of the German Countryside, Emily C. Rose (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society...
...Many of the stories chronicle Gallagher's wacky family: her bullheaded father, "creepy" Uncle Ben, and backward aunts, Frieda and Rose, who were struck by a car and killed while waiting for their sister outside a New York City restaurant...
...Notable Books Scrolls of Testimony Abba Kovner, translated by Dr...
...Select passages from Jewish mysticism with commentary...
...Weiss returned to Auschwitz and copied many of the photos, then tracked down some of the surviving individuals and collected their stories...
...Kovner's mission, with this volume, is to keep the Holocaust part of the "long collective memory of the Jewish people...
...sneaking through her Harlem neighborhood secretly carrying a copy of the Daily Worker, and lying about her Jewish name (Rosen) to land a job...
...An exhibit of these photos is currendy touring the world.—AP Books Received Sympathy For the Devil—Neutral Europe and Nazi Geiumny in World War II, Christian Leitz (New York: NYU Press...
...Rabbi Irving Greenberg named the collection one of the "greatest masterpieces of Holocaust literature...
...teenagers mugging for the camera...
...Edward Levenston (Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, 2001) Abba Kovner—commander of Jewish partisans in the Vilna ghetto, and esteemed Hebrew writer and poet— was working on his final Holocaust testimonial when he died in 1987...
...Divided into five meggilot (scrolls), the book is arranged to look like pages of the Talmud: The enormity of the Holocaust is told through poetry, prose, eyewitness testimonies, and diary entries...
...It includes Hirsch's reminiscences of civil rights marches, and of his fight to free Soviet Jews and promote progressive Judaism in the former Soviet Union.—AP How I Came Into My Inheritance and Other True Stories Dorothy Gallagher (New York: Random House, 2001) In this autobiographical collection of stories, Gallagher tells what it was like growing up as a "red diaper" baby: spending summers at the Workers' Childrens' Camp (where the camp song "was sung to the tune of Oh Moscow Mine...
...The result is The Last Album, a collection of 400 photos showing people as they lived: mothers, fashionably dressed, pushing babies in strollers...
...Zohar, translated and annotated by Moshe Miller (Morristown, N.J.: Fiftieth Gate Publications...
...AP From the Hill to the Mount—A Reform Zionist Quest Richard G. Hirsch (Jerusalem: Gefen, 2000) In this volume, Rabbi Richard Hirsch chronicles his social activism over the last four decades...
...Part autobiography, part compilation of essays, this "tale of two cities" covers a lot of ground: from Washington, D.C., where Hirsch was the founding director of the Religious Action Center and a Capitol Hill lobbyist, to his subsequent years in Jerusalem, where he established the headquarters of the World Reform movement...
...Norton & Company, 2001) When Ann Weiss, the daughter of Holocaust survivors, toured Auschwitz- Birkenau in 1986, the guide mistakenly unlocked a door, behind which were thousands of the personal photos Jews had brought with them to the camp...
...and grandparents posing formally...
Vol. 26 • October 2001 • No. 5
