Tag: World War II

It’s an election year, 2024, and there’s not much we can do about it. Election campaigns in the United States ...

By NEAL GOSMAN When I returned from the American war in Vietnam, it took me several years to actually come ...

Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER One era’s innovative, effective, nationally praised project can lose appeal in another, as shown by the ...

Aharon Appelfeld, one of Israel’s most acclaimed writers, escaped from a Nazi concentration camp in Transnistria, at the age of ...

Maggie Bearmon Pistner remounts her one-woman show, which tells the story of her mother’s army service during World War II ...

In Germany, more than a dozen years after the end of World War II, the citizenry remained ignorant of the ...

Their Promised Land: My Grandparents in Love and War, by Ian Buruma, Penguin Press, 305 pages, $26.95 Reviewed by NEAL ...

Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film, by Glenn Kurtz, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ...

By PHIL ROBIN “If you look under ‘vital aging’ in the dictionary,” wrote Bob Ramsey, “I’m pretty sure you’ll find ...

A Master Plan for Rescue, by Janis Cooke Newman, Riverhead Books, 320 pages, $27.95 Reviewed by ROBIN DOROSHOW This latest ...