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Journeys Through The Twentieth Century, Stories From One Family is
a fascinating study of memory and identity, spanning almost two
centuries, using the unique archive of one extended Jewish family.
Journeys Through The Twentieth Century, Stories From One Family is
a fascinating study of memory and identity, spanning almost two
centuries, using the unique archive of one extended Jewish family.
This collection of book reviews from the pen of Michael Milston
brings together the great minds of twentieth-century Jewish
philosophy and offers up critical but compassionate interpretations
of their works. Milston's approach is not neutral but he has
recognised and put into practice that most important aspect of book
reviewing: 'the sublimation of the ego of the reviewer to the
book'. The result is a body of essays that refuse to be in conflict
or collusion, preferring a dialogic relationship with influential
philosophers such as Fackenheim, Amery and Hannah Arendt. A
Critical Review is a profound and eloquent introduction to
post-Holocaust Jewish thought.
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This book begins with an audacious question: Has there ever been a
better home for Jews than Canada? By certain measures, Canada might
be the most socially welcoming, economically secure, and
religiously tolerant country for Jews in the diaspora, past or
present. No Better Home? takes this question seriously, while also
exploring the many contested meanings of the idea of "home."
Contributors to the volume include leading scholars of Canadian
Jewish life as well as eminent Jewish scholars writing about Canada
for the first time. The essays compare Canadian Jewish life with
the quality of life experienced by Jews in other countries, examine
Jewish and non-Jewish interactions in Canada, analyse specific
historical moments and literary texts, reflect deeply personal
histories, and widen the conversation about the quality and timbre
of the Canadian Jewish experience. No Better Home? foregrounds
Canadian Jewish life and ponders all that the Canadian experience
has to teach about Jewish modernity.
Traveling in Europe in August 1938, one year before the outbreak of
World War II, David Kurtz, the author's grandfather, captured three
minutes of ordinary life in a small, predominantly Jewish town in
Poland on 16 mm Kodachrome colour film. More than seventy years
later, through the brutal twists of history, these few minutes of
home-movie footage would become a memorial to an entire community,
an entire culture that was annihilated in the Holocaust. Three
Minutes in Poland traces Glenn Kurtz's remarkable four year journey
to identify the people in his grandfather's haunting images. His
search takes him across the United States to Canada, England,
Poland, and Israel. To archives, film preservation laboratories,
and an abandoned Luftwaffe airfield. Ultimately, Kurtz locates
seven living survivors from this lost town, including an eighty six
year old man who appears in the film as a thirteen year old boy.
Painstakingly assembled from interviews, photographs, documents,
and artifacts, Three Minutes in Poland tells the rich, funny,
harrowing, and surprisingly intertwined stories of these seven
survivors and their Polish hometown. Originally a travel souvenir,
David Kurtz's home movie became the sole remaining record of a
vibrant town on the brink of catastrophe. From this brief film,
Glenn Kurtz creates a riveting exploration of memory, loss, and
improbable survival, a monument to a lost world.
Many scholars have endured the struggle against rising anti-Israel
sentiments on college and university campuses worldwide. This
volume of personal essays documents and analyzes the deleterious
impact of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement on
the most cherished Western institutions. These essays illustrate
how anti-Israelism corrodes the academy and its treasured ideals of
free speech, civility, respectful discourse, and open research.
Nearly every chapter attests to the blurred distinction between
anti-Israelism and antisemitism, as well as to hostile learning
climates where many Jewish students, staff, and faculty feel
increasingly unwelcome and unsafe. Anti-Zionism on Campus provides
a testament to the specific ways anti-Israelism manifests on
campuses and considers how this chilling and disturbing trend can
be combatted.
Winner of the 2021 National Jewish Book Award for Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice Finalist for the 2021 Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction. A startling and profound exploration of how Jewish history is exploited to comfort the living.
Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating essays since she was a teenager. Often asked by major publications to write on subjects related to Jewish culture―and increasingly in response to a recent wave of deadly antisemitic attacks―Horn was troubled to realize what all of these assignments had in common: she was being asked to write about dead Jews, never about living ones. In these essays, Horn reflects on subjects as far-flung as the international veneration of Anne Frank, the mythology that Jewish family names were changed at Ellis Island, the blockbuster traveling exhibition Auschwitz, the marketing of the Jewish history of Harbin, China, and the little-known life of the "righteous Gentile" Varian Fry. Throughout, she challenges us to confront the reasons why there might be so much fascination with Jewish deaths, and so little respect for Jewish lives unfolding in the present.
Horn draws upon her travels, her research, and also her own family life―trying to explain Shakespeare’s Shylock to a curious ten-year-old, her anger when swastikas are drawn on desks in her children’s school, the profound perspective offered by traditional religious practice and study―to assert the vitality, complexity, and depth of Jewish life against an antisemitism that, far from being disarmed by the mantra of "Never forget," is on the rise. As Horn explores the (not so) shocking attacks on the American Jewish community in recent years, she reveals the subtler dehumanization built into the public piety that surrounds the Jewish past―making the radical argument that the benign reverence we give to past horrors is itself a profound affront to human dignity.
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