Each Story Matters: Talking with Hadley Freeman
Hadley Freeman discusses her new memoir, HOUSE OF GLASS.
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Posts Tagged: Auschwitz
Remembering as Deconstruction: Eduardo Halfon’s Mourning
To scrutinize the past, one must approach the walls between then and now.
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How to Keep Calm and Carry On
Your mind doesn’t play tricks on you. You play tricks on your mind.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #60: Leah Kaminsky
Leah Kaminsky’s debut novel, The Waiting Room, depicts one fateful day in the life of an Australian doctor and mother, Dina, living in Haifa, Israel. Dina is trying to maintain normalcy as she goes about her work as a family doctor, cares for her son, and fights to preserve her faltering relationship with her husband, […]
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Farewell, Professor Wiesel
Faith is about action, Professor Wiesel said that day. Faith is about what you do with that faith. Belief in God is to do, not to accept. So always the question: what can we do?
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The Rumpus Interview with Rachel Hall
Rachel Hall discusses her debut collection Heirlooms, her mother’s experience growing up in a French Jewish family during World War II, and crossing genre borders in her writing.
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Used to Be Schwartz
When I told my friend Aharon that my family name used to be Schwartz, he said, “Used to be Schwartz—sounds like a Borscht Belt act.”
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Helga’s Diary by Helga Weiss
Malcolm Forbes reviews Helga Weiss’s HELGA’S DIARY today in The Rumpus Book Reviews.
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“Open Heart,” by Elie Wiesel
When eighty-two-year-old Elie Wiesel was told he needed emergency heart surgery he was surprised rather than afraid.
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Visiting Auschwitz
Like most Jewish girls, I read The Diary of Anne Frank at a young age. From the moment I closed the book, the Shoah dominated the mental landscape of my nine-year-old days and commandeered my nights.
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