Category Books

Recalling the Catskills

image - A postcard of the legendary Kutsher’s resort

A postcard of the legendary Kutsher’s resort. After the Lower Eastside of Manhattan, there is perhaps no place that holds so enormous a place in the imagination of Jewish life in North America as the Catskills. The Catskill Mountains, really…

Anti-racism fundraiser

photo - Olga Campbell is raising money for the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre’s anti-racism programming

Olga Campbell is raising money for the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre’s anti-racism programming. (photo from Olga Campbell) Half of all sales during March of Olga Campbell’s multiple-award-winning A Whisper Across Time: My Family’s Story of the Holocaust Told Through Art and…

Novel journeys shared

photo - Ilana Masad participates in the Cherie Smith JCC Jewish Book Festival on Feb. 23

Ilana Masad participates in the Cherie Smith JCC Jewish Book Festival on Feb. 23. (photo from the JBF) Women are at the forefront of two new books. Specifically, how we perceive their (our) roles. Especially, with regard to motherhood. Ilana…

Klein speaks on climate crisis

photo - Seth Klein brings his book A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency to the Jewish Book Festival on Feb. 22

Seth Klein brings his book A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency to the Jewish Book Festival on Feb. 22. (photo by Erica Johnson) At this year’s virtual Cherie Smith JCC Jewish Book Festival, which runs Feb. 20-25,…

Jewish Poland in 1932

photo - This photo, called “Generations,” was taken by Tim Gidal in Tel Aviv in 1935

This photo, called “Generations,” was taken by Tim Gidal in Tel Aviv in 1935. (courtesy Zack Gallery) The current show at the Sidney and Gertrude Zack Gallery, Invisible Curtain: The 1932 Polish Photographs of Nachum Tim Gidal, was organized in…

Gidal’s photos speak volumes

image - Memories of Jewish Poland: The 1932 Photographs of Nachum Tim Gidal book cover

The book Memories of Jewish Poland: The 1932 Photographs of Nachum Tim Gidal lets the photos do most of the talking. And they speak strongly and with passion of a lively, bustling and diverse community, the vast majority of whom…

Interview insightful, fun

photo - Israeli writer Eshkol Nevo, whose latest novel is The Last Interview, opens the JCC Jewish Book Festival Feb. 20

Israeli writer Eshkol Nevo, whose latest novel is The Last Interview, opens the JCC Jewish Book Festival Feb. 20. (photo from JBF) This year’s Cherie Smith JCC Jewish Book Festival opens online Feb. 20, with Israeli writer Eshkol Nevo, whose…

Hope amid challenges

image - Out of the Dark book cover cropped

Lillian Boraks-Nemetz’s latest collection of poems offers comfort, even though she does not shy away from the tragedy of her Holocaust experience and ever-present memories of that period. From the very title, Out of the Dark, she gives hope. If…

Using chutzpah in business

photo - Uri Adoni shares “The Six Rules of Chutzpah” in his book The Unstoppable Startup

Uri Adoni shares “The Six Rules of Chutzpah” in his book The Unstoppable Startup. (photo from Uri Adoni) Uri Adoni, author of The Unstoppable Startup – Mastering Israel’s Secret Rules of Chutzpah, is on a mission to teach businesspeople how…

Benefits to writing memoir

photo - Junie Swadron recently released her latest book

Junie Swadron recently released her latest book. (photo from Junie Swadron) The Nov. 3 release of Junie Swadron’s most recent book, Your Life Matters! 8 Simple Steps to Writing Your Story, could not have arrived on the shelves of booksellers at…