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Dog

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Book review by Anne Sarzin Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and narcotics and alcohol addictions are at the core of Yishay Ishi Ron’s extraordinarily powerful and...

Shalom announces shortlist for Australian Jewish Writer Awards

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The shortlists have been announced for the 2026 Shalom Collective Australian Jewish Writer Awards, recognising Australian writing on Jewish subjects published in 2025. The winners...
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Female guards and Nazi brutality

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Book review by Dr Anne Sarzin It took courage and endurance for historian N. Koster to research and write Female...

Sydney Jewish Writers Festival takes stories from page to stage

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The Sydney Jewish Writers Festival will move beyond the printed page this August with the launch of Festival of...

Conversations with my Rabbi

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 Nikki’s Conversations with her Rabbi Book review by Dr Anne Sarzin Writing the book Conversations with my Rabbi clearly proved both...

From Music to Mayhem

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Book review by Dr Anne Sarzin From 1924 to 1933, a jazz band comprising seven young, creative and brilliant musicians—six...

Who will rescue us?

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The story of the Jewish children who fled to France and America during the Holocaust Book review by Dr Anne...

Heart of a Stranger

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Book review by Dr Anne Sarzin Everything about Rabbi Angela Buchdahl’s compelling memoir is unusual. This is the only autobiography...

Chaim Grade’s “Sons and Daughters”

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Book review by Dr Anne Sarzin Chaim Grade’s Sons and Daughters transports one brilliantly and completely into the bygone world...

New book records Shepparton’s lost Jewish farming community

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Physiotherapist Devorah Zmood has launched her first book, “Shepparton Jewish Agricultural Settlement Migrant Stories”, documenting the history of the...

Jewish Queen Berenice and the Roman Empire

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Book review by Dr Anne Sarzin While eclipsed in history and literature, right up to the present day, by the...

Children’s book scrapped after illustrator’s remarks on Bondi victims

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The University of Queensland Press (UQP) has cancelled a forthcoming children's book after concluding it could not proceed without...

Creating a Secure Life

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Book review by Dr Anne Sarzin In an insecure world with shifting sands beneath our feet, stable and significant relationships...

The High Road: Confessions of a homicide cop

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Book review by Dr Anne Sarzin If you think the confessions of a homicide cop are not your beat, this...

Carole King made the earth move

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Book review by Dr Anne Sarzin Generations have lived the most significant events in their lives to the soundtrack of...

Sydney Writers’ Festival faces criticism over antizionist bias in programming

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The Sydney Writers’ Festival is drawing sharp criticism for what Jewish community leaders describe as a heavily one-sided approach...

Sydney Jewish writer awards expand to six categories

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Shalom Collective will present six prizes at its annual Australian Jewish Writer Awards in August, adding poetry, illustrated manuscripts...

Ausländer

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Escape, exile, beginnings and endings   Book review by Dr Anne Sarzin The word ‘Ausländer’, the eponymous title of this book,...

Library loses literary awards after ‘martyr’ blowback

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A library has lost its role managing a state's literary awards after an Indigenous writer was criticised for her...

Howling in protest

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Book Review by Dr Anne Sarzin The wailing and complaining that reverberate throughout Howard Jacobson’s latest novel, hOWL, will resonate...

Hannah Senesh: dream and reality

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Book review by Dr Anne Sarzin If you thought you knew the real story of Hannah Senesh, think again. Canadian...

The Watchmaker’s War

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Nazis—and their nemesis—surface in 1950s Melbourne     Book review by Dr Anne Sarzin Danny Ben-Moshe’s superb thriller, The Watchmaker’s...

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