About People: In the Sept. 21 Jewish World
In this week's edition of the AJW, "About People" has the boldface names: Halie Soifer, Beth Kieffer Leonard, Dean Phillips,...
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Herb Fantle: A good life in America
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Not many members of Minnesota’s Jewish community saw Adolf Hitler speak. In 2012, Herb Fantle, who survived...
Herb Alpert: It’s all about the feel
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR On the phone last week from his home in Malibu, renowned musician Herb Alpert wished me a...
Nora Krug: Searching for truth in the Shoah’s aftermath
Nora Krug, who was raised in Karlsruhe, Germany, several decades after the Holocaust, has created an intriguing graphic memoir, Belonging:...
Hard times in the Bronx with ‘Awake and Sing!’
By DORIS RUBENSTEIN What song is playwright Clifford Odets referring to in his 1935 drama Awake and Sing!? For most...