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Crime fiction: Every city has an evil shadow

Jan 8, 2025 | jwire.com.au | Anne Sarzin

Browse > Home / Books, Featured Articles / Crime fiction: Every city has an evil shadow – J-Wire Read on for article Book review by Dr Anne SarzinThe old-fashioned detective work in numerous American TV crime dramas –from the eponymous sleuth in Colombo tracking obscure clues, the brilliance of Jessica Fletcher in Murder she wrote, or the penetrating mind of Sherlock Holmes won legions of fans around the world and shaped our expectations of crime fiction.
Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz

Dec 25, 2024 | jwire.com.au | Anne Sarzin

Browse > Home / Books, Featured Articles / Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz – J-Wire Read on for article Book review by Dr Anne SarzinFirst English translation of 1950 Hungarian Holocaust memoirAs I write this review on the eve of Chanukah, it seems clear to me that Holocaust survivor Jozsef Debreczeni, the author of Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz, possessed a strength of the soul we attribute to the valiant Maccabees.
By any other name: Her voice will be heard - Book review by Dr Anne Sarzin

Dec 24, 2024 | jwire.com.au | Anne Sarzin

Browse > Home / Books, Featured Articles / By any other name: Her voice will be heard - Book review by Dr Anne Sarzin – J-Wire Read on for article Holiday reading: Jewish claimant to Shakespeare’s playsThe Elizabethan age was a crucible for creative endeavours unrivalled in subsequent centuries. What a miracle that William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe, two of the world’s greatest dramatists, should co-exist at that time.
A laugh and a tear with David Baddiel

Dec 19, 2024 | jwire.com.au | Anne Sarzin

Browse > Home / Books, Featured Articles / A laugh and a tear with David Baddiel – J-Wire Read on for article Book review by Dr Anne SarzinWhat does it mean to ‘spill the beans’ about family, to look beyond the curated images we present to the world in social media? Two years ago, I read American feminist Letty Pogrebin’s book Shanda: A memoir of shame and secrecy, which exposed her family’s fiercely guarded secrets.
Ittay Flescher’s dream of enduring peace

Dec 7, 2024 | jwire.com.au | Anne Sarzin

Browse > Home / Books, Featured Articles / Ittay Flescher’s dream of enduring peace – J-Wire Read on for article Book review by Dr Anne SarzinDreams are enshrined in the biblical literature of Jewish people; our patriarch Jacob dreamed of a ladder with angels ascending and descending, generating over thousands of years a multiplicity of interpretations.
Robert Manne’s Memoir: a witness to history

Nov 26, 2024 | jwire.com.au | Anne Sarzin

Browse > Home / Books, Featured Articles / Robert Manne’s Memoir: a witness to history – J-Wire Read on for article Book review by Dr Anne SarzinPolitical scientist, author and public intellectual extraordinaire, Robert Manne has engaged courageously and unflinchingly in bitter and divisive debates that have alienated large sections of the Australian commentariat, while also winning him supporters who applaud his efforts to right the wrongs of history, as he perceives them.
Unravelling the mysteries of Indian-Jewish food

Nov 19, 2024 | jwire.com.au | Anne Sarzin

Browse > Home / Books / Unravelling the mysteries of Indian-Jewish food – J-Wire Read on for article Book review by Dr Anne SarzinWhen Sydney writer Elana Benjamin pictures her childhood, the first image that enters her mind is her Nana Hannah’s Bondi apartment crowded with her father’s nine brothers and sisters, their husbands, wives and children, the sounds of laughter and loud conversation interspersed with Arabic and Hindustani.
John Safran provokes and pontificates

Nov 14, 2024 | jwire.com.au | Anne Sarzin

Browse > Home / Books / John Safran provokes and pontificates – J-Wire Read on for article Book review by Anne SarzinWhen you review a book by iconoclastic John Safran you don’t anticipate in your wildest dreams that it will feature anything remotely sacramental. At a guess, possibly something excremental.
Seeds sown in a Season of Death

Nov 3, 2024 | jwire.com.au | Anne Sarzin

Browse > Home / Books, Featured Articles / Seeds sown in a Season of Death – J-Wire Read on for article A book review by Dr Anne SarzinMark Raphael Baker (1959-2023), former Associate Professor at the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation at Monash University, authored two significant memoirs, The Fiftieth Gate (1997), in which he probed his parents’ survival in Buchenwald during the Holocaust.
Deborah Conway: new challenges for a brave artist

Oct 10, 2024 | jwire.com.au | Anne Sarzin

Browse >Home / Books, Featured Articles / Deborah Conway: new challenges for a brave artist – J-Wire Read on for articleA book review by Anne SarzinBy now, there isn’t a Jewish person in Australia who hasn’t heard of the musician and singer Deborah Conway. In the past year, she has emerged as an unofficial spokesperson for the Jewish community, bold, courageous and outspoken, pushing back against the upsurge in Jew-hatred and the demonising of Israel.