A new memoir by former B.C. NDP minister Selina Robinson describes betrayal by her own party
‘The NDP has turned on Jews,’ she says.
Azrieli Foundation paired Holocaust survivors with volunteer writers to ensure their life stories are preserved
Yvette Newman had always told her children and grandchildren about her idyllic childhood in Slovakia, as well as life during the Holocaust when her family was ultimately deported to the concentration camps. But there was no written record preserving her story for future generations, until an innovative program developed by the Azrieli Foundation matched her […]
A ‘superb’ memoir from an Israeli-Canadian author
Bill Gladstone reviews Ayelet Tsabari’s The Art of Leaving: A Memoir and Rachel Kadish’s The Weight of Ink.
Graphic artist digs up her family’s dark past
Norman Ravvin reviewes Nora Krug’s Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home.
Memoir by Ilana Kurshan, modern feminist, shows respect for Jewish tradition
Ilana Kurshan, a brilliant young graduate of Harvard and Cambridge, recently completed the daf yomi cycle and wrote about it in If All the Seas Were Ink: A Memoir.
Matti Friedman, Max Eisen, nominated for RBC Taylor Prize
Matti Friedman’s second nonfiction book, Pumpkinflowers, about Israel’s war in Lebanon, and Max Eisen’s By Chance Alone: A Remarkable True Story of Courage and Survival at Auschwitz were nominated.
