Once again, I found myself reading a Holocaust memoir in which a surviving parent did not want to reveal too much information, if any, about their Holocaust experience to their child/children. The Pages In Between: A Holocaust Legacy of Two Families, One Home, by Erin Einhorn, is a novel written by a daughter whose mother, [...]
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The Pages of Time
Posted in Book Reviews, General, Non-Fiction, tagged Erin Einhorn, Female Authors, memoirs, The Pages In Between on December 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Giving and Goodness
Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, General, Non-Fiction, tagged Authors, Bill Clinton, Books, Giving, Non-Fiction on December 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I finished reading the book Giving, by Bill Clinton, a while back. I thought this would be a good book to recommend to those who might want some suggestions how to be productive in the area of “giving“.
Givingtakes on many forms, from monetary to volunteering, and Clinton’s book, shows us avenues through [...]
Annie Leibovitz’s New Book
Posted in Authors, General, Non-Fiction, tagged Annie Leibovitz, Annie Leibovitz at Work, female photographers, Jewish photographers, photographers, photography on November 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Annie Leibovitz at Work, by Annie Leibovitz, is her new book that will be released on November 18th. I have pre-ordered a copy.
I am passionate about photography, and Leibovitz’s book looks to be not only a wonderful book of portraits and photographs, but also an excellent resource on photography-making. According to the publisher, [...]
The Black Seasons, by Michal Glowinski
Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, General, Non-Fiction, tagged Authors, Books, Holocaust, memoirs, Mical Glowinski, Non-Fiction, The Black Seasons on November 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Black Seasons by Michal Glowinski is a poignant rendering of portions of Glowinski’s childhood memories from the Warsaw Ghetto to his life while hiding from the Nazis, to being rescued by Catholic nuns and becoming a Holocaust Survivor.
“The word drifted into my ears as people around me deliberated: will they lock us in [...]
I Am My Family, by Rafael Goldchain
Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, General, Non-Fiction, tagged Authors, Books, I AM My Family, photography books, Rafael Goldchain on November 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I Am My Family: Photographic Memories and Fictions, by Rafael Goldchain is a very unique and interesting look at one man’s family through ancestral photographs.
The unique perspective regarding I Am My Family, is the fact that Goldchain has literally infused himself into the ancestral photographs.
“Rafael Goldchain’s I Am My Family is a family [...]
Four Girls From Berlin
Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, General, Non-Fiction, tagged American writers, Authors, Books, female writers, Holocaust, Jews, Judaidm Jew, memoirs, Non-Fiction, Shoah, Writers, WWII memoirs on October 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Four Girls From Berlin: A True Story of Friendship That Defied the Holocaust, by Marianne Meyerhoff, is a beautiful memoir of courage and friendship under horrendous circumstances. The story is about Lotte Meyerhoff who was a German Jew, and was the author’s mother. It is an affecting story of how she survived the [...]
Does the Soul Survive?
Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, General, Non-Fiction, tagged American Jews and afterlife, American writers, Authors, belief in past lives, belief in soul survival, Books, death and dying, Does the Soul Survive?, Elie Kaplan Spitz, Jew, Jewish, Jewish Authors, Jewish belief in past lives, Jewish belief in soul survival, Jewish beliefs, Jewish Customs, Jewish education, Jewish learning, Jewish Life, Jewish Practices, Jewish Religion, Jewish Traditions, Jewish Writers, Jews, Judaism and afterlife, Judaism and the soul, male writers, Non-Fiction, past life beliefs, Rabbi Spitz, Religion, religion and dying, religion and Judaism, religion and soul survival, Religious Journeys, soul survival, souls, spiritual books, spiritual education, spiritual life, spiritual writing, spirituality and death, Spirituality books, Writers on October 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Does the Soul Survive?” (A Jewish Journey to Belief in Afterlife, Past Lives & Living With Purpose) is Rabbi Elie Kaplan Spitz’s extremely thought-provoking book. We travel with him on his steps towards awareness.
Does the Soul Survive? is a compilation of experiences from firsthand accounts that were told to him by others, from experiences his [...]
A Tranquil Star by Primo Levi
Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, General, Non-Fiction, tagged anti-semitism, Books, Jew, Jewish, Jewish Authors, Jewish Writers, Jews, Religion, fiction, stories, family relationships, family dynamics, short stories, A Tranquil Star, descriptive language, fiction short stories, fiction stories, Italian Jewish Authors, Italian Jewish writers, Jewish Italian Writers, metaphysical commentary stories, metaphysical stories, mountain hiking, prewar short stories, primitive life, Primo Levi, Primo Levi short stories, Primo Levi's A Tranquil Star, short stories on universe, short story commentary, short story fiction on September 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A Tranquil Star – Unpublished Stories, by Primo Levi is quite the collection of seventeen short stories within a 164 page count. Levi is well-known for his Holocaust memoirs, but in this book of short stories, he goes beyond the Holocaust, into the world of the his deep imagination, bringing us parables of the metaphysical [...]
Flory: A Miraculous Story of Survival, by Flory Van Beek
Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, General, Non-Fiction, tagged anti-semitism, Books, by Flory Van Beek, Flory, Flory Van Beek, Flory-A Miraculous Story of Survival, Genocide, German Occupation Holland, historical Holocaust memoirs, History, history Holland, Holland German occupation, Holland History, Holland Jews, Holland Jews WWII, Holocaust history, Holocaust Holland History, Holocaust/Genocide, Jew, Jew Wishes, Jewish, Jewish Customs, Jewish Life, Jewish Religion, Jewish Society, Jews, Judaism, memoirs, Nazi Holland, Nazi Occupation Holland, Non-Fiction, personal account, personal history, personal story, Religion, Shoah, Shoah History, WWII Holland Jews on September 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Flory – A Miraculous Story of Survival“, by Flory Van Beek, is an incredible and compelling memoir. Flory Van Beek speaks from her heart, her soul illuminating each page, creating word-imagery filled with life survival in Holland during the Holocaust.
I could not put “Flory” down, and read it straight through, memsmerized by the incredible [...]
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Italy’s Sorrow, by James Holland
Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, General, Non-Fiction, tagged Authors, Books, Cassini WWII, Genocide, historical books, historical WWII documentation, History, history of WWII, Holocaust/Genocide, Italian Campaign, Italian Campaign books, Italian Campaign history, Italian Campaign of WWII, Italian fascists, Italian History, Italian Jews, Italian Partisans, Italian society, Italians and WWII, Italy history, Italy World War II, Italy WWII, James Holland, Jew Wishes, Jewish Italians, Naples WWII, Salerno WWII, Sicily WWII, War, war commentary, World War II Italy, Writers, WWII commentary, WWII historical book, WWII History, WWII Italian Campaign, WWII Italy, WWII Naples, WWII Salerno, WWII Sicily, WWII war-torn Italy on December 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Not much is known about how Italy was thrust in the middle of World War II, with the fascist regime. Not much is known about the allied forces who were involved in the war in the liberation of Italy. Italy’s Sorrow: A Year of War, 1944-1945, by James Holland is a book that [...]
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