Yona Zeldis McDonough
Two best friends jump off a train heading for Auschwitz, leaving their mothers still on board.
The Light After the War: Jews in Caracas
Author: Yona Zeldis McDonough
Real Life Mysteries: A Lost Voice and Communication With the Dead
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Everyone loves a great mystery on the page, but what about in real life?
The Fraught and Frayed Bonds of Sisterhood
Yona Zeldis McDonough
I wanted the characters in The Wartime Sisters to be imperfect and layered, to make good and bad choices, to be difficult, to fail, and also to grow. It’s important to me that people recognize pieces of themselves and their family members when they read about Ruth and Millie.
One Book, Three Protagonists…and Three Authors!
Yona Zeldis McDonough
A novel with three main protagonists and three different time periods is not so uncommon. But when that book is written by three different authors, that’s pretty unusual.
Love and the Law in “That’s Not a Thing.”
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Romance and lawyering meet in this charming new novel.
Otherness and Family Secrets—Stories from the Borscht Belt
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Ultimately, the keeping of secrets, especially those that are transferred generationally, are corrosive to the holder, involving emotional cover-ups and internal suffering.
After She Lost Her Father, She Found Him
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Jill Santopolo on her new novel, More Than Words.
The Power of Humor for Smashing the Patriarchy
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Historically, [women] haven’t been allowed to be members of the Country Clubs and smoky back rooms where real power sits. That’s the tragedy. The genius of comedy, if you can make it work, is taking tragedy and holding it up to a funhouse mirror so it’s no longer scary, but rather funny.
A Jewish Girl’s Summer Among New England WASPs
Yona Zeldis McDonough
“The Last Book Party,” a novel by Karen Dukess
Chutzpah: A Former Israeli Defense Intelligence Commander’s Guide to Business and Parenting
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Living with chutzpah provides the opportunity to constantly practice the soft skills defined by the World Economic Forum as the skills for the future. These include: analytical thinking, active learning, creativity and originality, critical thinking, complex problem solving and more.