Yona Zeldis McDonough
Author Meryl Ain talks to Lilith about twins, bloodlines, and Jewish identity in her post-Holocaust novel, “Shadows We Carry.”
Meryl Ain on “Shadows We Carry”
Tag: Holocaust
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.
Would Whoopi Goldberg Have Been Punished If…?
Zohara Armstrong
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.
These Jewish Sisters Ran a Safe Haven During the Nazi Occupation
Yona Zeldis McDonough
A Q&A with Roxane Van Iperen, who realized her house in the woods was once a refuge for Jewish children.
Violence, Loss and Healing—Emily Barth Isler’s “Aftermath”
Yona Zeldis McDonough
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.
Judy Batalion, a First Class Disrupter
Yona Zeldis McDonough
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 Q&A with Jennifer Robson, Author of “Our Darkest Night”
Yona Zeldis McDonough
A 1942 novel about an Italian Jewish woman trying to survive the Holocaust with the family of farmers who take her in.
Saving Leonardo de Vinci’s “Lady with the Ermine”
Yona Zeldis McDonough
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>