The latest news from the New York Jewish Week.
Thousands participated Tuesday in demonstrations against anti-Semitism across France. Protesters took to the streets in some 70 marches only hours after nearly 100 gravestones at a Jewish cemetery in the eastern French village of Quatzenheim were discovered vandalized with swastikas. Some protesters held posters saying “That’s Enough.” “Whoever did this is not worthy of the French republic and […]
Fiction “The Dark Young Man” by Jacob Dinezon, translated by Tina Lunson (Jewish Storyteller Press), is the first English translation of this 1877 novel of romance, assimilation and intrigue that is considered the first best-selling Yiddish novel. (February) A debut novel by a surgeon, Leo Rozmaryn, “Lone Soldier” (Kindle Direct Publishing) is a fast-paced thriller […]
Auschwitz: Not Long Ago. Not Far Away This epic-sized exhibition presents the grim reality of the Nazi death camp through more than 700 artifacts and objects, many on loan from the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, which helped organize the presentation. May 8-Jan. 3, 2020. Museum of Jewish Heritage, Edmond J. Safra Plaza, 36 Battery Place, mjhnyc.org. […]