Weber Herlinger, Ilse. Dancing on a Powder Keg: Letters and Poems. Translated from the German by Michal Schwartz, with afterword by Ulrike Migdal, and Theresienstadt essay by Ruth Bondy. Charlottetown, PE and Jerusalem: Bunim and Bannigan and Yad Vashem,

Review of Weber Herlinger, Ilse. Dancing on a Powder Keg: Letters and Poems. Translated from the German by Michal Schwartz, with afterword by Ulrike Migdal, and Theresienstadt essay by Ruth Bondy. Charlottetown, PE and Jerusalem: Bunim and Bannigan and Yad Vashem, 2016.

Whitewashing Narratives: Israeli Media and the Framing of the Kidnapped Yemenite Babies Affair

This essay offers a review of ongoing media analysis of the kidnapped Yemenite Babies Affair in light of recent changes in public awareness since the emergence of social media and the more recent formal governmental recognition. It argues that the government’s efforts to silence this affair over decades would not have been possible without the media’s full cooperation. Moreover, the public denial of this affair contributes to the ongoing intra-Jewish rift and racism in Israeli society today. Questions regarding the reconciliation and remembrance of this affair in the public sphere will strongly influence the identity formation of Yemenite and Mizrahi children of future generations.

Kraut, Florence Reiss. How to Make a Life: A Novel. She Writes Press. N.P.: 2020

Review of Kraut, Florence Reiss. How to Make a Life: A Novel. N.P.: She Writes Press, 2020.

The Yemenite Children Affair: A Moral Call

The immigration to Israel of most of Yemenite Jewry in 1948–1950, titled “Operation Magic Carpet” is symbolic of a miraculous leap in space and time from distant Yemen to the modern Jewish state. The Yemenite Jews’ utopian ethos, however, was far from able to foresee the trauma that awaited them in the transit camps where they were placed after their arrival in Israel: the kidnapping of thousands of infants in what became known as the “missing Yemenite-Jewish children affair.”

Abigail of Maon and the Wise Woman of Abel: Speaking Truth to Power

In 1 Samuel Abigail of Maon and then in 2 Samuel the Wise Woman of Abel dare to Speak Truth to Power. Each woman employs the wisdom of a moral appeal to the male aggressor’s better inclinations to deescalate a situation where her community is seriously threatened with violent and immediate annihilation.

Batalion, Judy. The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos. New York, NY: William Morrow, 2020.

Review of Batalion, Judy. The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos. New York, NY: William Morrow, 2020.

“For me, every child is the whole wide world:” An interview with Naomi Zipori

An interview with Naomi Zipori whose brother, Zion, disappeared in Rosh Ha'ayin during the winter of 1950.

Cecilia Razovsky, the American Activist Who Rescued German Jewish Children (1933-1945)

This article deals with the reaction of one particular American Jewish sector – the Jewish women - and their response to Nazi persecution of European Jews in the 1930s and the 1940s. As against the widespread accusations that American Jews did not do enough to help their co-religionists during those tragic years, this paper claims that Jewish women, of all social standing – from homemakers to professionals – were actively involved in organizing rescue operations and assisting refugees. Of particular note is one extraordinary woman – Cecilia Razovsky-Davidson.

Libyan Jewish Women's Lore: From Homeschooling to Formal Education

The source of Libyan Jewish women's lore was the environment in which they lived, which was shaped—intellectually, socially, and economically—by the gender norms of Libyan Jews. These norms were based on Jewish traditions and the surrounding Muslim society, which since the mid-sixteenth century was under Ottoman rule until the Italian occupation of 1911. Formal education for Jewish girls became available in Libya from the 1870s, first through European enterprises and from the 1930s also by the community. This paper examines Libyan Jewish women's lore and what was the impact of the developing educational, social, and economic opportunities for growing numbers of Libyan Jewish women, mainly in the urban society, on their cultural capital from the late nineteenth century until the mass Jewish emigration from Libya starting in the late 1940s.

Chalmers, Beverley. Birth, Sex and Abuse: Women’s Voices Under Nazi Rule. Tolworth, Surrey, UK: Grosvenor House Publishing Ltd, 2015.

Review of Chalmers, Beverley. Birth, Sex and Abuse: Women’s Voices Under Nazi Rule.Tolworth, Surrey, UK: Grosvenor House Publishing Ltd, 2015.