
Golda’s War Diaries explores the secrets revealed in newly declassified files concerning Prime Minister Golda Meir’s time in office, and particularly her handling of the Yom Kippur War. The result is an intimate portrait of a leader in crisis yet very much in charge.
Henrietta Szold is among the most influential American Jewish women who ever lived. She founded Hadassah in 1912, a Jewish women’s service organization, that inspired hundreds of thousands of Jewish women to invest their energies in a cause that transcended their own personal lives. She also helped organize Youth Aliyah, which successfully rescued thousands of Jewish children from Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe during the 1930s and transported them to Palestine. The new film, Labors of Love, tells her inspiring story.
Nazism has always faced resistance: from the German artists who caricatured the Nazis in the 1920s, or the man who infiltrated the SS to try and expose the Holocaust in the 1940s, or the people who uncovered former Nazis as part of a groundbreaking documentary in the 1970s. Resisting Nazism is the first book to connect such stories, painting a vivid picture of resistance to hatred and extremism across the generations.
Raoul Wallenberg: Missing Inaction tells the heroic story of Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat responsible for saving thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust by issuing them Swedish protective documents, opening protected safe houses, and more. The big mystery of what happened to Wallenberg following his arrest in 1945 by the Soviet liberators of Hungary is at the center of the film.
The film Outsider. Freud. follows Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, from his earliest experiences with antisemitism, through his meteoric career, and ending with his escape after the Anschluss from Vienna to London, where he spent the final months of his life. (more…)
Julian Borger‘s family memoir I Seek a Kind Person — highlighted by The New York Times as one of the 100 must-read books of the year — is a gripping story of how the author’s Austrian Jewish father and other children were rescued through the placement of advertisements in British newspapers.