News and commentary posted in the Videos section of Jewish Literary Review.
October 6, 2011
In a few weeks, the new Sholem Aleichem documentary, “Laughing In The Darkness,” will come to my neck of the woods here in Atlanta. (You can find the schedule of screenings here.) I’m not sure what to expect. The trailer … Continue reading
October 5, 2011
I’m late in posting this but the movie based on Tatiana de Rosnay’s novel Sarah’s Key is out in theaters now. You can check out the trailer above. The 2008 novel is, in part, a fictionalized account of the 1942 … Continue reading
April 18, 2011
Enjoy the coming seder. In the meantime, have fun with this little video from the folks over at aish.com.
April 13, 2011
This week marks the 50th anniversary of the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem. To commemorate the event, Israel’s Holocaust memorial museum, Yad Vashem, has uploaded the entire trial onto YouTube. If you search for the trial on YouTube, you … Continue reading
December 7, 2010
David Grossman is an Israeli writer whose latest novel, To the End of the Land, is receiving rave reviews. The book explores the effects of war on an individual family and Israelis from all different political stripes have embraced it … Continue reading
October 13, 2010
At one point, I began to believe that every Jewish home had at least one mezuzah and one copy of Rabbi Joseph Telushkin’s Jewish Literacy. Both seemed ubiquitous in the circles I ran around in. All joking aside, I’ve relied … Continue reading
October 8, 2010
Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel spoke with White House Senior Advisor David Axelrod at the 92nd Street Y on Wednesday night and the talk received some significant press coverage. Over on Politico, reporter Ben Smith described how the two mused over … Continue reading
September 21, 2010
Here’s the trailer for Annexed, a new young adult book by Sharon Dogar that imagines the Anne Frank story from the perspective of Peter van Pels, the teenage boy who also hid in the annex. Dogar is a child psychotherapist … Continue reading
February 10, 2010
I became a big fan of Jonathan Safran Foer when I read Everything Is Illuminated. Anyone who read that book knows the author is a vegetarian. That’s to be admired. Although I am not a vegetarian, I respect those who … Continue reading
January 12, 2010
In this interview, author Jonathan Lethem discusses several aspects of writing, including how he began writing on a manual typewriter he received when he was 14. Interestingly, he says you can’t teach someone to write a novel but you can … Continue reading
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My name is Steven H. Pollak and I have written for the Baltimore Jewish Times, the Atlanta Jewish Times, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and American Jewish Life magazine.
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