Andrew Silow-Carroll

2 weeks ago | timesofisrael.com | Andrew Silow-Carroll |Grace Gilson |Andrew Lapin |Andrew Marszal

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2 weeks ago | jpost.com | Andrew Silow-Carroll |Zvika Klein |Yaakov Katz |Liat Collins

(JTA) — Steven Spielberg had already donated money to the Yiddish Book Center when he asked if the center’s founder, Aaron Lansky, might fly out to Los Angeles and drop by his office. The filmmaker doesn’t usually meet with the beneficiaries of his philanthropy, Lansky told me recently, but wanted to explain his support for what is now the Steven Spielberg Digital Yiddish Library at the YBC, an online collection of more than 12,000 Yiddish titles.

2 weeks ago | clevelandjewishnews.com | Andrew Silow-Carroll

Steven Spielberg had already donated money to the Yiddish Book Center when he asked if the center’s founder, Aaron Lansky, might fly out to Los Angeles and drop by his office. The filmmaker doesn’t usually meet with the beneficiaries of his philanthropy, Lansky told me recently, but wanted to explain his support for what is now the Steven Spielberg Digital Yiddish Library at the YBC, an online collection of more than 12,000 Yiddish titles.

3 weeks ago | timesofisrael.com | Cathryn J. Prince |Andrew Silow-Carroll |Gavriel Fiske

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3 weeks ago | jewishtimes.com | Andrew Silow-Carroll

A debut novel about a Ukrainian Jewish World War II veteran, and family secrets unveiled against the backdrop of the 2014 Russian-Ukrainian war, has won the 2025 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. “Your Presence Is Mandatory” by Sasha Vasilyuk is the second book by an immigrant from the former Soviet Union to win the annual prize, which was established in 2007 and alternates between awarding works of fiction and nonfiction. Honoring emerging writers, the prize comes with a $100,000 award.