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Professor of Germanic Studies at UVic; community-engaged Holocaust education | human rights studies | visual storytelling | arts-based action research | care ethics | visualnarratives.org | Image credit: Barbara Yelin (Emmie Arbel. The Colour of Memory)
a white orb covered in black speckles and spots rests on a dark sofa cushion. the left side is a dalmatian’s face, tucked in toward her haunches with her thin tail wrapped up to hug her face. she is looking at the camera with one sleepy brown eye.
This is Koyuki. Please do not disturb her. She's in ice cream scoop mode right now. Needs to focus. 12/10 (IG: fuji_bull)
it’s publication day for Anand Gopal’s extraordinarily deeply reported, and often exceptionally dramatic chronicle of intersecting lives repeatedly transformed by the passions and politics of the Syrian revolution & civil war…
check it out: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Days-o...
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On March 25, 2026, 7–9 pm, the Toronto #Holocaust Museum hosts a special evening celebrating survivor Rose Lipszyc and the launch of Two Roses: A Story of Deception and Determination in Nazi Germany, a new graphic novel that honours her story.
Details & registration: bit.ly/4tSAI99
Amid what detainees say is a clampdown in Dilley, TX, including seizures of kids' drawings and crayons, Christian Hinojosa stuffed letters in her jacket to hide them from guards. She told @micarosenberg.bsky.social and me her story. We published the letters today.
www.propublica.org/article/dill...
Today's gift link. "Working with Times Opinion and relying on our contacts in the Iranian diaspora and inside the country, we surveyed 40 Iranian doctors and nurses across 14 cities and 11 provinces about their experiences treating wounded protesters." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
A yellow background with gold confetti and party streamers, then the text “happy release day”. The following book covers are on the page: Maya’s Journey by Marcella White Campbell and Olivia Smith, Two Roses by Miriam Libicki and Rose Lipszyc, Falling For The Rabbi by Jennifer Wilck, The World Between by Zeeva Bukai
Four new Jewish books out today!
See our 2026 releases list here:
https://bookishlyjewish.com/?p=2653
In a new album, the Ukranian-born, New York-based pianist and composer Vadim Neselovskyi channels the horror and hope he's felt since Russia's incursion. n.pr/4rEeExF
“I miss my school and my friends I feel bad since when I came here to this Place, because I have been here too long,” wrote 9-year-old Susej, who said she had been held at Dilley detention center for more than 50 days.
“Four years later, the sirens still scream, and the Russian attacks have become even deadlier.
What’s changed is the world has become accustomed to the war raging in Europe. We’ve come to accept that things are never going back to the way they were before.”
My essay on four years of war in Ukraine
Pre-order your copy of Two Roses: A Story of Deception and Determination in Nazi Germany. In this graphic memoir, Miriam Libicki illustrates the memoirs of thirteen-year-old Rose Lipszyc and her aunt, Róza Finkielsztajn.
Learn more: bit.ly/4qAexSd
#Memoir #JewishStudies
a tiny brown & tan chihuahua in a pink sweater is sitting, looking up at the camera. two white strands of hair stick out the top of her head. they’re curled into a perfect heart.
This is Lexa. She really hopes you’ll be her valentine. Wouldn’t want to waste this look on just anybody. 14/10 (IG: bambiandlexa)
This is one of the loveliest books I've ever encountered in a lifetime of reading: The Wanting Monster – a tender modern fable about the difficult art of resting at the still point of enough www.themarginalian.org/2025/05/29/t...
Parchment is seeking literary work—non-fiction, fiction, reviews, translations, liturgy, interviews, poems, cartoon—that celebrates curiosity and ignites conversation.
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Join HBI tomorrow, Tuesday, 4 PM EST online for a special panel discussion on Jewish Women's Graphic Novels about the Holocaust with Rachel Perry, Victoria Aarons, @tahneeroksman.bsky.social and @cschallie.bsky.social. bit.ly/JewishWomens...
Page 1 of a child’s handwritten letter, written in Spanish in a cursive script. Translation: “Hello I am Ender and I am 12 years old, I have been at this center for 2 months. I arrived here for an immigration appointment and I don’t think they should grab immigrants who are innocent, like instead of grabbing criminals because I mean they prefer to lock up children than look for people who really shouldn’t be in the U.S. They told me I could only be here 21 days but I have already spent more than 60 days waking up eating the same repetitive meals, going outside and that the majority of guards never pay attention to people, eating dinner always the same as the day before, seeing people cry every day for the same reasons, trying to sleep in that horrible uncomfortable bed, going to the doctor and that the only thing they tell you is to drink more water and the worst thing is that it seems like the water is what makes people sick here…”
Page 2 of a child’s handwritten letter, written in Spanish in a cursive script. Translation: “…going to wait for the bad answers from the judges, hearing the bad news from people who no longer have hope, having to share a room with minimum 3 families, and all that so they send us back to our countries.” Below the text is a drawing in pen of three women, titled “My family” and labeled with “Mama,” “Sister,” and “me” in Spanish.
5/ “I have already spent more than 60 days waking up eating the same repetitive meals…going to the doctor and that the only thing they tell you is to drink more water and the worst thing is that it seems like the water is what makes people sick here…”
From 12-year-old Ender, detained 60+ days
A child’s illustration, made in what appears to be crayon, of more than a dozen figures standing together. It’s titled “Mi Familia” and credited to “Luisanney Toloza, 5 años.”
4/ “Mi Familia,” by 5-year-old Luisanney Toloza from Venezuela, who had recently crossed the U.S.-Mexico border
A haunting portrayal of a historical atrocity, an inspiring account of a modern friendship, a beautiful work of art, and a meditation on memory itself.
#EmmieArbel: The Colour of Memory by Barbara Yelin is OUT NOW in the UK!
🔗 buff.ly/ofxTUIJ
#selfmadehero #indiecomics #graphicnovel
As a child Emmie Arbel survived the Holocaust. It scarred her for life. Barbara Yelin provides a fascinating, compassionate and absorbing biography. @selfmadehero.bsky.social
theslingsandarrows.com/emmie-arbel-...
lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · 49m I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated. Quote lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Jan 25 Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.
INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.
Welcome home, Liam! I hope folks in similar situations to him are reunited with their loved ones soon
Please check out comics4liam.com and thank you to the folks who set this up! #comics4liam
Here is a collection of sworn testimonies from detainees being held in ICE custody. Until reading these testimonies, I wasn't fully aware of what is happening. Please read them yourself. We need to know this. We need to understand the consequences of ICE/CBP arrests. assets.aclu.org/live/uploads...
“Who Will Draw Our History?" brings together over 75 works of early Holocaust memory created by 10 Jewish survivors. Guest curated by Rachel E. Perry with Kniznick Gallery @brandeisuniversity.bsky.social arts coordinator Olivia Baldwin. Open now until April 30.
www.brandeis.edu/hbi/artist-p...
Text: Jewish Women's Graphic Novels About the Holocaust, below: headshots of Rachel Perry, Victoria Aarons, Tahneer Oksman, and Charlotte Schallié, Text below: Rachel Perry, Victoria Aarons, Tahneer Oksman, and Charlotte Schallie
FEB 10: Jewish Women's Graphic Novels About the Holocaust, mod. by Rachel Perry w/ Victoria Aarons, @tahneeroksman.bsky.social & @cschallie.bsky.social.
A companion to HBI’s exhibit, Who Will Draw Our History? Women’s Graphic Narratives of the Holocaust. 4 PM EST, ONLINE Reg: bit.ly/JewishWomens...
Liam was taken from Columbia Heights, the town just south of my high school in Fridley and just north of the Arts district in NE Minneapolis. I spent a lot of time with friends there after extracurriculars. News of his abduction completely broke my heart. I’m glad he’s home. #Comics4Liam
What's it like to create during a crisis? I talked with members of the Minneapolis comic community like @trungles.com, @zandercannon.bsky.social, K. Woodman-Maynard, and more about making comics during ICE's occupation, the ICE Out Comics initiative, and more.
This is open to non-subscribers.
Mit Aktionen wie „Ice Out Comics“ protestieren US-Künstler gegen das Vorgehen der Einwanderungsbehörde ICE. Sie machen Schicksale von Betroffenen anschaulich und werben für Zivilcourage: www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/comic...
Judge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept."
Astonishing thing for a judge to do.
ICE Took Liam Conejo Ramos. His Classmates Have Something to Say. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/o...
