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Michelle's article in The Lovely County Citizen
Read Michelle's article "A note from an Artery artist" that published in Eureka Springs' local paper The Lovely County Citizen on June 18, 2009. This article addresses the controversy around her painting "The Divine Mother" (4' x 8', acrylics)in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Click here to read it now.
Yael Even-Levy's Review of Haven in Africa
Frank Shapiro. Haven in Africa. Jerusalem and New York: Gefen, 2002. xii + 156 pp. $14.95 (paper), ISBN 978-965-229-285-8. Published on H-Judaic (October, 2004). Was Northern Rhodesia a haven for European Jewry on the eve of World War II? What happened to the numerous plans for Jewish immigration to the British protectorate of Northern Rhodesia in the 1930s? And why were these documents sealed and kept classified until recently? In Haven in Africa, Shapiro attempts to answer these questions while leading the reader to wonder about all the missed opportunities that prevented a mass settlement of German Jewry in Africa. Read more or download a printable version now.
Yael Even-Levy's Review of Zion in Africa: The Jews of Zambia
Hugh Macmillan, Frank Shapiro. Zion in Africa: The Jews of Zambia. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 1999. ix + 342 pp. $59.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-86064-405-4. Published on H-Judaic (November, 1999). Also cross-posted on Southern Africa Jewish Genealogy SA-SIG. From Yiddish-speaking cattle traders and adventurers in the nineteenth century to intellectuals and professionals in the twentieth, Zion in Africa chronicles the history and culture of the small Jewish community in Zambia and affirms that Zambian Jewry, as an ethnic group, indeed exists. The book is supplemented by maps of Zambia (also known before its independence in 1964 as Northern Rhodesia), with its eight neighboring countries in south central Africa, and central African cattle-trails (c. 1900s-1960). Read more or download a printable version now.
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