Memoirs in Honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day from IPBooks

By Tamar SchwartzJanuary 27, 2022January 27, 2022 Books, History, Literature, Politics

Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27th)

Please consider purchasing any of these books about or personal stories of lives touched by the Holocaust from IPBooks.

Click Here to Read about and Purchase: City Within a City by Basia Temkin-Berman|
Click Here to Read and Purchase: Never Again: Echoes of the Holocaust As Understood Through Film by Sylvia Ginsparg
Click Here to Read About and Purchase: Inter Alia: A Memoir by Ernest Kafka|
Click Here to Read About and Purchase: Memories of a Chaotic World: Growing up as the daughter of Annie Reich and Wilhelm Reich by Lore Reich Rubin
Click Here to Read about and Purchase: Mirrored Reflections: A Memoir by Kitty La Perriere
Click Here to Read About and Purchase: Survival Skills: Norway, Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust: A Family Story by Anne-Marie Foltz

and a moving book which is distributed by IPBooks:

Click Here to Read About and Purchase: My Mother’s Eyes by Anna Ornstein

From the reverent to the raunchy, YIVO’s vast archives of Yiddish life are reunited online

By Tamar SchwartzJanuary 16, 2022January 16, 2022 Arts, Books, History

Click Here to Read: From the reverent to the raunchy, YIVO’s vast archives of Yiddish life are reunited online by Andrew Silow-Carroll on the Jewish News of Northern California website on January 11, 2022. Y
Yiddish Translation of All Quiet on the Western Front. Image: Shalom Books. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

The Runaway Daughters of Galicia

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 10, 2021December 10, 2021 History, Literature

Click Here to Read:: Rebellious Jewish girls fled their Galician villages, leaving their mark on books, film, and even Orthodox education BY Rachel Manekin on the Tablet wesbite on December 10, 2021.
Image: Photographed and published by B.W. Kilburn, Littleton, N.H Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Pope Meets a Jewish Link to His Boyhood

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 9, 2021December 9, 2021 History

Click Here to Read: Pope Meets a Jewish Link to His Boyhood By Alessandra Stanley in The New York Times on March 13, 2000.
Pope John Paul II Image: Zkoty1953 Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

Jerusalem on the Rhine

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 7, 2021December 9, 2021 History

Click Here to Read: Jerusalem on the Rhine:: Preserving the history of three German cities that loom large in Jewish history: Speyer, Worms, and Mainz by Elisabeth Becker on the Tablet website on December 06, 2021.
Synagogue in Worms (Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany).Image: Pancho Suenderhauf Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

The ‘organized escape’ of psychoanalysts from Austria during Nazi occupation

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 7, 2021December 7, 2021 History, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: The ‘organized escape’ of psychoanalysts from Austria during Nazi occupation by By Wanda Rudich on the La Prensa Latina website on December 5, 2021.
Waiting room of the former Sigmund Freud ordination in Vienna. Image: Bwag Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

This Mysterious Ancient Civilization’s DNA Was Not What We Thought it Was

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 2, 2021December 2, 2021 History, Science

Click Here to Read: This Mysterious Ancient Civilization’s DNA Was Not What We Thought it Was: The origins of the ancient Etruscans had remained an unsolved mystery hidden in their DNA — until now By Elizabeth Rayne on the SyFy website on November 27, 2021.

Etruscan sarcophagus from Cerveteri c. 520 BCE. Terra cotta, length 2 m. Museo Nazionale di Villa Giulia, Rome. Image: Frank Axelsson Piblic Domain via Wikimedia Commons