Yona Zeldis McDonough
Author Meryl Ain talks to Lilith about twins, bloodlines, and Jewish identity in her post-Holocaust novel, “Shadows We Carry.”
Author Meryl Ain talks to Lilith about twins, bloodlines, and Jewish identity in her post-Holocaust novel, “Shadows We Carry.”
Anita Abriel, the author of novels set during World War II, on why she endows her young protagonists with such courage and grit.
A Novel About a Jewish female doctor. In the Middle Ages.
Race in the United States is most certainly real. But just because something is constructed to be a social reality, does not mean it is true or based on facts and science.
A Q&A with Roxane Van Iperen, who realized her house in the woods was once a refuge for Jewish children.
I love showing a roadmap to forgiveness in the book. In a story that shares more than enough examples of how life can be horribly unfair and sad, I want kids to see examples of how things can go well or be done helpfully. How things can go right.
Revolvers hidden in loaves of bread and teddy bears… Explosives hidden in their underwear… Jewish teenagers at Auschwitz who stole gunpowder and helped blow up a crematorium?! None of these stories had made it into the tales of the Holocaust that I’d heard.
A 1942 novel about an Italian Jewish woman trying to survive the Holocaust with the family of farmers who take her in.
A novel that traces the fraught journey of Leonardo de Vinci’s famous <em>Lady with the Ermine</em>, and how this priceless work of art was ultimately saved from the Nazis. </p>