Book Review
By Dianne R. Layden, PhD Janet Bond Brill spent 37 years with her mother-in-law Edna before losing her — and she refused to let Edna’s story disappear with her. The result is Little Edna’s War, a Warsaw Ghetto memoir written in Edna’s own voice as a
Arts Feature
by Dianne R. Layden, Ph.D. In her remarkable first book, Melting Point: Family, Memory, and the Search for a Promised Land, Rachel Cockerell presents history and memoir in an experimental format in which original source material, with all its nuances, is presented as historical context – the search in the
Jewish European History
by Dianne R. Layden, Ph.D. The short play Etty about the life of Dutch woman Esther “Etty” Hillesum (1914-1943) during the German occupation was performed by Susan Stein in schools and houses of worship in New Mexico in October 2025.* I saw the performance in Albuquerque at Congregation
US History
By Dianne R. Layden, Ph.D. Frances Levine will speak about Jewish women and men on the Santa Fe Trail on Zoom on September 8, 2025, 7:00 PM. Register with the New Mexico Jewish Historical Society, 505-348-4471 or BIT.LY/NMJHS-FL. Dr. Frances Levine is well