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24/04/2025

I can think of no more fitting day than today, , to share the cover of the new English translation of Vladka Meed’s memoir, ON BOTH SIDES OF THE WALL, one of the earliest firsthand accounts of life in the Warsaw Ghetto, written by a dear family friend and forthcoming from .

Preorder your copy here: https://www.amazon.com/Both-Sides-Wall-Resistance-Firsthand/dp/0806544104/ref=sr_1_2?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.KS9YaOeEsOsxYd8lqEH-gvJJOLy1MCR-iZNI7ZVNkfRk6ueNbY8R8nPGm-I8BbSvPH6rPEXpHjn4FFOBDKXecyD4GOWZ8eaTG63EXk61fNsP0uW0EfkkAyQcBOmw10QPpeOb29jVvZRkm43lU4h9Y5n6fKcyBbH5kpc2v3uDCkFv-eJ11-kNT5SBZV2CeeLYuLsqpjEKUdUSeCzCXXK8qdFo4elanePFkSGoKX5yVUU.XWhbxrKlaM2I6OHaDatPR-1ipR0Y1gHrPV90k5AZif4&dib_tag=se&keywords=on+both+sides+of+the+wall&qid=1745468637&sr=8-2

18/04/2025

This book is an absolute must-read for ALL women! And, YES, you’re reading that right!! The term “BEDROOM GAP,” which coined to describe the discrepancy in sexual desires, expectations, and functioning between men and women over 40, has already been an word of the week!

03/04/2025

Yay!!!!

Congratulations to Robin Judd on being named College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor. The title of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor serves to honor full professor colleagues who have excelled in teaching, service, and research/creative activity, and whose work has demonstrated significant impact on their fields, students, college and university, and/or the public.

Robin E. Judd is a specialist in Jewish, transnational, and gender history, with particular interests in Holocaust studies, the history of antisemitism, the history of religion, the history of leadership, and the history of migration. She is the author of the award winning Between Two Worlds: Jewish War Brides After the Holocaust (University of North Carolina Press, 2023) and Contested Rituals: Circumcision, Kosher Butchering, and German-Jewish Political Life in Germany, 1843-1933 (Cornell University Press). Between Two Worlds won two National Jewish book awards and was named by the Jewish Women's Archive as one of its Summer 2024 Book Club picks.

Professor Judd teaches courses on Holocaust studies, modern Jewish history, German history, gender history, and history of migration. Judd has received seven teaching awards since arriving at OSU in 2000, including the Ratner Teaching Award (2020), the Ohio Academy of History Distinguished Teaching Award (2019), and the Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching (2015). She also received the Honors Faculty Service Award in 2022. In recognition of her work in Holocaust studies, Governor Dewine appointed her to Ohio’s Holocaust and Genocide Memorial and Education Commission in 2021.

19/03/2025

“I AM AFRAID OF SALMON.”

19/03/2025

So looking forward to this !

14/03/2025

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We are precipitously close to spring, but the season still lags. Looking out on gloomy weather and shuttered shops, one can feel caught in stasis. Perhaps you are yearning for […]

13/03/2025

Well, someone didn’t care for my edits.

12/03/2025

Boston peeps—don’t miss this!!

04/03/2025

Join me tomorrow and get ready for !

17/01/2025

A much needed salve. Professor Roberta Rosenthal Kwall Bloomsbury Publishing Inc

20/12/2024

My surreal gothic retelling of Hades & Persephone + Salvador Dali in a stone garden of monsters in Italy is $5.99 on eBook for a limited time! https://geni.us/InTheGardenOfMonsters2

19/12/2024

Honored to end the year in this most important note.

Roberta Rosenthal Kwall

30/10/2024

Huge congrats to Professor Melissa R. Klapper on the publication of this absolutely beautiful and important work! Order your copy now at 30% off, using code NYUAU30

Emma Mordecai lived an unusual life. She was Jewish when Jews comprised less than 1 percent of the population of the Old South, and unmarried in a culture that offered women few options other than marriage. She was American born when most American Jews were immigrants. She affirmed and maintained her dedication to Jewish religious practice and Jewish faith while many family members embraced Christianity. Yet she also lived well within the social parameters established for Southern white women, espoused Southern values, and owned enslaved African Americans.

The Civil War Diary of Emma Mordecai is one of the few surviving Civil War diaries by a Jewish woman in the antebellum South. It charts her daily life and her evolving perspective on Confederate nationalism and Southern identity, Jewishness, women’s roles in wartime, gendered domestic roles in slave-owning households, and the centrality of family relationships. While never losing sight of the racist social and political structures that shaped Emma Mordecai’s world, the book chronicles her experiences with dislocation and the loss of her home.

Bringing to life the hospital visits, food shortages, local sociability, Jewish observances, sounds and sights of nearby battles, and the very personal ramifications of emancipation and its aftermath for her household and family, The Civil War Diary of Emma Mordecai offers a valuable and distinct look at a unique historical figure from the waning years of the Civil War South.

24/10/2024

The knows what’s what! ’s IN THE GARDEN OF MONSTERS is DEFINITELY a best read!

16/10/2024

A behind-the-scenes look on how I created book-inspired recipes for IN THE GARDEN OF MONSTERS: A COMPANION COOKBOOK, edited by Crystal King.

02/10/2024

Thank you to for recognizing the import of this 📖! Shana tova to all those celebrating. May this be a happier, healthier, and more peaceful year for us all.