Shoah survivor Henryk Gurman dies at 89
Known as ‘Grandpa Henry’ to the high school students he sometimes taught, Gurman survived a German labor camp and immigrated ...
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Buy an AJW gift subscription, get 2 FREE Renaissance Festival tickets
The 2013 Minnesota Renaissance Festival kicks off on Aug. 17 and runs through Sept. 27. There will be live armored ...
A Shoah memoir of courage, perseverance
Sky Tinged Red, by Isaia Eiger, translated by Dora Eiger Zaidenweber, Beaver’s Pond Press, 415 pages, $19.95 Reviewed by NEAL ...
"Honoring Our Graduates" — in the May 24 AJW
PLEASE NOTE: DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS EXTENDED TO FRIDAY, MAY 17 You can celebrate your high school or college grad with ...
Reliving a Holocaust experience
Helga’s Diary: A Young Girl’s Account of Life in a Concentration Camp, by Helga Weiss, W.W. Norton, 240 pages, $24.95 ...
Helping immigrants, building community
By ROBIN DOROSHOW Despite having lived west of the Mississippi for many years, I remain a St. Paul gal at ...
Andy Statman: Ascending on the wings of music
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Andy Statman, a musician’s musician, who has played with everyone from Bob Dylan to Itzhak Perlman, returns ...
Perlman and Helfgot play Jewish ‘comfort music’
Renowned violin virtuoso Itzhak Perlman pursued this collaboration with Israeli-born Cantor Yitzchak Meir Helfgot. The 10 songs on Eternal Echoes: ...
Glossy Swedish film explores Jewish identity
The film is not a Jewish parable so much as a story of discovering and accepting one’s place in the ...
Fulfilling Gilda’s dying wish
By ERIN ELLIOTT BRYAN / Community News Editor “Having cancer gave me membership in an elite club that I’d rather ...
