My First Yizkor

Tablet
June 11, 2024

Belief: Personal Essay

It’s Yom Kippur 1982, a sunny September morning in Montreal. I’m at synagogue with my grandparents, wearing a blush-colored dress with a bib of cream frills, sucking hard Life Savers I’ve fished out of my bubbie’s linty pockets. Around me, they chant lullingly, peacefully, until suddenly: The children must leave the room.

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15 Books About Lesser-Known Women Who Made History

Bookriot
March 7, 2022

The traditional historical narratives that put male experiences at the center have the unfortunate tendency to draw a veil over the contributions of women. This tendency deprives us of the knowledge about the experiences of half of those who came before us, across all spheres of human history – politics, science, literature, art.

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Five Best: On Resistance

Wall Street Journal
Sept. 3, 2021

1. “The Light of Days” illuminates the compelling if little-known stories of the courageous young women, some of them still in their teens, who helped turn youth groups into resistance cells in Nazi-occupied Poland.

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Author Discussion on Women Heroes of World War II

C-Span Book TV
April 10, 2021

Judy Batalion, the daughter of Holocaust survivors and author of The Light of Days, and Rebecca Donner, author of All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days, shared the stories of women who fought against Germany during World War II. This was a virtual event hosted by the San Antonio Book Festival.

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The Light of Days

C-Span Book TV
April 18, 2021

Judy Batalion recounted the Jewish women who served as resistance fighters against the Nazis in Poland during World War II. This was a virtual event hosted by the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City.

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The Light of Days: The Untold Story of the Jewish Resistance’s Women Fighters

Irish Times
April 18, 2021

Book review: The unspeakable is succeeded by the unthinkable in this passionately written history.

“Heroic girls” the historian Emmanuel Ringelblaum called them, writing in 1942 from the misery of the Warsaw ghetto. “Nothing stands in their way. Nothing deters them. The story of the Jewish woman will be a glorious page in the history of Jewry during the present war.”

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