A police procedural set close to home
Wild Justice has many of the characteristics of a well-conceived university humanities course, forcing the reader to think about important moral issues and to bring the wisdom of the past to bear on his or her deliberations.
Book details survivor experiences in Montreal
David Silverberg reviews The Montreal Shtetl: Making Home After the Holocaust by Zelda Abramson and John Lynch.
How it Happened examines the Holocaust in Hungary
Peter Farkas reviews Erno Munkácsi’s How it Happened: Documenting the Tragedy of Hungarian Jewry.
Efraim Karsh: Palestinian-Israeli conflict not inevitable
Paul Lungen interviews Efraim Karsh, a scholar of Middle Eastern history who has published 15 books.
Halevi tries to build a bridge with Palestinians with his letters
Mordechai Ben-Dat expounds on the importance of Yossi Klein Halevi’s Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor.
When they come for the typewriter ribbons
Norman Ravvin reviews Vasily Grossman: A Writer’s Freedom.
Jack Kuper almost lost himself in the Shoah – almost
The fascinating story of Jack Kuper, author of Child of the Holocaust: A Jewish Child in Christian Disguise.
Jennifer Teege: Uncovering her family’s Nazi past
Ron Csillag interviews Jennifer Teege, author of My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family’s Nazi Past.
Examining the right’s disdain for tikun olam
Ari Blaff reviews Jonathan Neumann’s book To Heal the World? How the Jewish Left Corrupts Judaism and Endangers Israel.
Female authors featured at Shaar learning series
Exciting highlights from Congregation Shaar Hashomayim’s upcoming Tuesday Night Learning at the Shaar program in Montreal.
