Penn Press is thrilled to announce that Hannah Pollin-Galay’s 2024 book Occupied Words: What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish recently won a National Jewish Book Award from the Jewish Book... READ MORE The post Occupied Words by Hannah Pollin-Galay wins a National Jewish Book Award! appeared first on University of Pennsylvania Press.| University of Pennsylvania Press
In April 1996, the Academy of American Poets launched National Poetry Month to celebrate poetic language and its essential role in human communication.| Academic Studies Press
What events from the past do you recall today? The answer might seem quite obvious: it depends on the culture that influenced you most. Today is a January 27 is observed globally as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The date marks the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi concentration and extermination camp. The main concept is not limited to honoring the memory of the victims as it is also valuable to support the survivors, and to remind people about t...| Academic Studies Press
The end of the year provides an opportunity to reflect. This year had many highs and lows, including social and humanitarian tragedies throughout the The end of the year provides an opportunity to reflect. This year had many highs and lows, including social and humanitarian tragedies throughout the world. For many of us, books offer shelter, a place to search for answers to the complex challenges of our time, and a forum for reflection and analysis.| Academic Studies Press
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising started on April 19th, 1943. For 27 days, a few hundred young Jewish men and women, poorly armed with a few pistols and| Academic Studies Press
We are pleased to present here an excerpt from Roman Dziarski’s How We Outwitted and Survived the Nazis: The True Story of the Holocaust Rescuers, Zofia Sterner and Her Family, accompanied by a personal introduction from the author. The book tells the story how his family rescued Jews from the Holocaust and survived WWII, against the backdrop of the realities of the Nazi and Soviet occupation of Poland.| Academic Studies Press