A special Holocaust section: five women’s stories of survival, tools to teach these texts to future generations. How a huppah quilt became a record of dearest family and friends.
Table of contents Get the issueHow does Lilith work with Holocaust survivors? And how can our readers teach their text?
Moving? Graduation? A birthday? Reminder: We can create prayers, as this bat mitzvah mother does.
Three new plays and one film by Jewish women.
A week in a Jewish teen’s life in the Warsaw ghetto. Responding: Ellen Bass, co-author of The Courage to Heal.
After 3 Holocaust years in hiding in Poland, a spunky child survives and thrives, her pain transformed into one little fetish: shoes. Responding: Julie Heifetz, high school theater arts teacher and Holocaust author.
A daughter of Holocaust survivors gives us chilling instructions.
Is anti-Semitism still "the fashion" in Poland? Responding: "Mrs. Slomovic," 69, a Holocaust survivor and 33-year veteran of Hebrew school teaching.
A small motherless child, smuggled back and forth across borders. Responding: Leah Strigler, a 26-year-old Wexner fellow still in graduate school.
THE INFAMOUS “SPEECH EXAM”Deborah Dash Moore’s review of Ruth Jacknow Markowitz’s My Daughter the Teacher mentions anti-Semitism as one force which drove teachers out of the public school system. It also prevented Jews from even becoming teachers. The infamous “speech exam,” required at Brooklyn College before one was allowed to do student teaching, sidetracked me... Read more »
