Yona Zeldis McDonough
Sometimes the price of being saved is much higher than we could ever expect or know and Jewish children hidden during the Holocaust found that out the hard way. The… Read more »
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Tag: Holocaust
A Comics Artist Takes on Her Family’s War Story
Yona Zeldis McDonough
A comic strip about going into hiding during the Holocaust: Miriam Katin’s We Are On Our Own.
Talking to Anne Burt, Author of “The Dig”
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Anne Burt talks to Lilith about her debut novel, The Dig, and her character’s struggle to reconcile her own ambitions while remaining loyal to her beloved, idealistic brother.
Meryl Ain on “Shadows We Carry”
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Author Meryl Ain talks to Lilith about twins, bloodlines, and Jewish identity in her post-Holocaust novel, “Shadows We Carry.”
A Girl During the War: A Story of Courage and Grit
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Anita Abriel, the author of novels set during World War II, on why she endows her young protagonists with such courage and grit.
Continuing the Story of Ivanhoe’s Rebecca
Yona Zeldis McDonough
A Novel About a Jewish female doctor. In the Middle Ages.
Would Whoopi Goldberg Have Been Punished If…?
Zohara Armstrong
Race in the United States is most certainly real. But just because something is constructed to be a social reality, does not mean it is true or based on facts and science.
These Jewish Sisters Ran a Safe Haven During the Nazi Occupation
Yona Zeldis McDonough
A Q&A with Roxane Van Iperen, who realized her house in the woods was once a refuge for Jewish children.
Violence, Loss and Healing—Emily Barth Isler’s “Aftermath”
Yona Zeldis McDonough
I love showing a roadmap to forgiveness in the book. In a story that shares more than enough examples of how life can be horribly unfair and sad, I want kids to see examples of how things can go well or be done helpfully. How things can go right.