“This book will make people check themselves:” Jonathan Freedland on Escaping Auschwitz

By Raquel G. Frohlich November 21, 2022

The author of “The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World,” on Rudolph Vrba’s story, modern genocide, and the unfair expectations placed on survivors of great trauma.

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Reflections on National Novel Writing Month

By Hannah Rozenblat October 13, 2016

There’s a good reason Jews are referred to as the “people of the word.” Our focus on texts is a long-standing tradition that encourages respect, even reverence, for the written word. Words are meaningful, powerful. They can create entire worlds. I highly appreciated this concept even as a child when I used to create fictional…

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