Author: Tamar Schwartz

The Heron’s Vigil: Faith, Literature, and the Formation of the Witnessing Self: Faith observant in the literary setting of “Rebecca”
By Categories: Books, Literature

Click Here to Read: The Heron’s Vigil: Faith, Literature, and the Formation of the Witnessing Self
Faith observant in the literary setting of “Rebecca” by Robert Goodman on the Spoken Word Poetry Substack on October 4, 2025.

Great Blue Heron Image: Dori  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

At YIVO, an unfinished Yiddish dictionary gets the last word — as opera
By Categories: Arts, History, Literature

Click Here to Read: At YIVO, an unfinished Yiddish dictionary gets the last word — as opera. To mark its centenary, YIVO stages a work about the competing visions for a monumental, and aborted, reference work about the language of Eastern Europe’s Jews By Andrew Silow-Carroll on the Jewish Telegraph website on September 17, 2025.

A brief history of Babi Yar, where Nazis massacred Jews, Soviets kept silence and now Ukraine says Russia fired a missile
By Categories: History, Politics

Click Here to Read: A brief history of Babi Yar, where Nazis massacred Jews, Soviets kept silence and now Ukraine says Russia fired a missile by Jeffrey Veidlinger on the Conversation website on March 7, 2022.

Babi Yar Holocaust memoria Image:Віктор Полянко  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.