Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler
Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler on the refreshing lack of moralizing in Jesse Eisenberg’s film A Real Pain.
Finally, a Holocaust Movie That Trusts Us
Tag: Holocaust
“[She] Told Me She’d Written a Book about Our Family, “Kissing Girls on Shabbat”… I Only Wish We had Reconnected Sooner”
Chloe Safier
Chloe Safier talks to her cousin, Sara Glass, about “Kissing Girls on Shabbat,” leaving Orthodox Judaism, and buying yoga pants for the first time.
Talking “A Castle in Brooklyn” with Shirley Wachtel
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Shirley Russak Wachtel talks to Lilith about how grief and betrayal threaten to destroy what were once unbreakable bonds in her novel A Castle in Brooklyn.
Jennifer Rosner on the Price of Being Saved
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Sometimes the price of being saved is much higher than we could ever expect or know—and Jewish children hidden during the Holocaust found that out the hard way.
A Comics Artist Takes on Her Family’s War Story
Yona Zeldis McDonough
A comic strip about going into hiding during the Holocaust: Miriam Katin’s We Are On Our Own.
Talking to Anne Burt, Author of “The Dig”
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Anne Burt talks to Lilith about her debut novel, The Dig, and her character’s struggle to reconcile her own ambitions while remaining loyal to her beloved, idealistic brother.
Meryl Ain on “Shadows We Carry”
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Author Meryl Ain talks to Lilith about twins, bloodlines, and Jewish identity in her post-Holocaust novel, “Shadows We Carry.”
A Girl During the War: A Story of Courage and Grit
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Anita Abriel, the author of novels set during World War II, on why she endows her young protagonists with such courage and grit.
Continuing the Story of Ivanhoe’s Rebecca
Yona Zeldis McDonough
A Novel About a Jewish female doctor. In the Middle Ages.