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by Inge David
Inge took her grandson to see the Germany of her past.
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They visited Nuernberg where she lived as a small child, and a highlight of the trip was a meeting with the grandson of her father’s non-Jewish business partner who was the one who encouraged the family to leave Germany when the Nazis came to power.
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by Fonda Dubb
Fonda recounts her personal victories over the system
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of apartheid in South Africa. Working around a discriminatory bureaucracy , she used her considerable skills in ballet and cooking to enrich the lives of many children and adults who would otherwise have been excluded from the opportunities she gave them.
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by Esther Roiter
Esther Roiter tells the moving story of Holocaust survivors
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who went to America, and the poor conditions they lived in. She says that "We, the second generation, are obligated to teach our children about the flourishing yeshivot in Poland, and of Hungarian and German Jewry". Esther also talks of the burden of suffering carried by the second and even third generations of Holocaust survivors.
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by Liz Trakeniski
A heartfelt recall of the bravery, determination and
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the integrity of the former Soviet Union refuseniks. An amazing historical period of modern Jewish times.
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by Lydia Aisenberg
Lydia peruses an issue of B’Derech, a Zionist magazine
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published in the mid- 1940s in the Feldafing Displaced Persons Camp in Germany. The magazine taught the children about Jewish holidays and Israeli culture. She describes how Succot was celebrated there in comparison to what happens in a modern-day kibbutz
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by Evelynne Cherny
A visit to Portugal revealed a wealth of attractions
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linked to a rich Jewish history, including the city of Coimbra, famous for its university library, Lisbon, with its dwindling Jewish population, and many other other towns and cities, revealing the fascinating history of the Jews of Portugal.
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by Deborah Opolion
Re-assessing Vienna on a return visit in modern times
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with every move recalling the history of decimation earlier. Introducing the new sensibility and emerging hope amongst the younger generation and the growing Jewish population.
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by Flori Cohen
At an ESRA Modiin morning tea event, music therapist
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Atarah Fisher spoke on music as a means of coping amongst Holocaust survivors. In the camps, it became a means to relieve their torment and hardships, and provided support as an outlet for the expression of feelings.
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by Eli Libenson
The story of a student's experiences fifty years ago
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in attempting to assist negroes to register for the vote in America's South. This is a report adapted from an address given by the author on Martin Luther King Day in Israel this year.
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by Brian Fink
Brian Fink gives a fascinating review of the Magna
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Carta in its eighth centenary year. It is one of the most important historical documents of the Western World, and little known to most people - it has a Jewish connection. Read on to find out what the small print has to say about the Jews.
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by Rhoda Goodman
Beautiful Spain's history is richly entwined with that
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of the Jews. A guided tour through the narrow alleys of many older cities, is a revelation. Fascinating details of the Spanish Court's reliance on Jewish expertise in medicine, banking, etc. can give one a tantalizing look into the past.
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by Margo Donovan
Clinging to material evidence when searching for ancestry
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roots on coming on aliyah took this family on a journey through the Holocaust to the tragic story of their family's annihilation guiding them eventually to the grave of their patriarch and closure for their search.
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by Natalie Elgrod, Stanley Cohen
Few private individuals, especially young people, ever
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have a chance to get a glimpse at history in the making off the battlefield. Natalie Elgrod's father, Stanley Cohen, was an exception. This private memoir describes one of these rare instances.
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