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Apr.06.2013
Shortly before she passes away, my 99-year-old Aunt Irene asks if I would continue the upkeep of her sister’s grave. Something she had done for decades...
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Feb.24.2013
The first time I went to J.'s apartment (1992) in Davis, CA, I saw the books. Nazi books. And it freaked me out. Because I didn’t realize at the time that publishers of WWII history books had their own sensationalistic marketing strategies just like other publishers. So I...
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Nov.18.2012
Hostage by Elie Wiesel is a short novel that compresses a modern day drama within a much longer history that stretches beyond the Holocaust to the origins of the Jewish faith.
The story line is as follows: For scant reason having to do with him as a particular Jew, Shaltiel is...
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Nov.09.2012
There are days when all is golden and the sky is soft and life is a smooth breath that we inhale without thought to its origins. Yet on this planet we are interconnected now in ways heretofore undreamed of; the pain of one drowned at sea or trapped under...
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Nov.05.2012
Women and Madness- A Response to Shoshana Felman’s Essay
In the essay “Women and Madness: the Critical Phallacy”, Shoshana Felman asserts the woman voice by giving a feminist reading of the short story “Adieu” by Honore Balzac: “With a ‘...
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Jul.16.2012
I'm not sure if I am of two minds about this or if I am being a hypocrite. I suppose it can be both. Although I appreciate the idea of artistic presentation in "real" places, I feel that the conceit described here is close to being a mockery of the reality itself. Actors are going to...
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Jul.16.2012
We’ve been having those freezing summer mornings in the Bay Area. The wind rattled my windows all night long, and right now, the sky is the color of dirty snow. The leaves are shivering. Me too. The physical sensation is reminiscent of fear and of love, which have been much on my mind.
Summer...
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Jul.08.2012
I found a box of old photos in my mother’s apartment after her death, which reminded me of the stories my parents had told me about their adventurous lives as survivors of the Holocaust and about their lost loved ones. This led to my first book: "A CENTURY OF LOVE: 1905-2004", a...
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Jun.06.2012
photo: cover of French version, second edition, from the book's Wikipedia page
Very effective book--about the French populace not recognizing the culpability of the French police being the Nazi's stooges in 1942--that would have been great without the emphasis on the present-day...
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Apr.21.2012
Poetry Super Highway has published its (14th) Annual Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) Anthology, including the work of 80 accomplished poets. I submitted late, and consider myself lucky to have been included. Sadly, I can only post a link to the anthology, not to my specific page, so I...
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