Sydney Jewish Writers Festival

Fiona Harari launches her book - We are Here

Wed, 28 Feb 2018 23:10:00 GMT

These are the last adult witnesses - in their own words.When Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, he quickly began to realise his dream of a racially superior nation free of 'inferior' groups. His goal included the eradication of European Jewry, a plan that would ultimately claim six million lives. By 1945, almost two in three European Jews were dead. So were millions of other victims of Nazism.For those who survived, liberation came with the enormous weight of guilt and memory as they began the second part of their lives, often in faraway places such as Australia, which would become home to one of the world's highest per capita communities of Holocaust survivors.Now the last of those adult survivors have reached an age once considered unattainable. They outlasted Nazism, and today, in their tenth and eleventh decades, have outlived most of their contemporaries. Eighteen of these Australians, originally from all over Europe, tell what it is like to have endured those years, and how they lived long after them.

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Henry Rosenbloom - Miracles Do Happen

Mon, 28 Aug 2017 05:37:00 GMT

Henry Rosenbloom talks about his book Miracles Do Happen at the 2017 Shalom Sydney Jewish Writers Festival.

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Rachel Seiffert - A Boy in Winter

Mon, 28 Aug 2017 04:50:00 GMT

Rachel Seiffert talks about her book A Boy in Winter at the 2017 Shalom Sydney Jewish Writers Festival.

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John Safran - Depends What you Mean by Extremist

Mon, 28 Aug 2017 04:09:00 GMT

John Safran talks about his book Depends What You Mean by Extremist at the 2017 Shalom Sydney Jewish Writers Festival.

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Jessica Friedmann - Things That Helped

Mon, 28 Aug 2017 03:59:00 GMT

Jessica Friedmann chats about her book Things That Helped at the 2017 Shalom Sydney Writers Festival.

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Lexi Landsman - The Perfect Couple

Mon, 28 Aug 2017 03:41:00 GMT

Lexi Landsman talks about her latest novel The Perfect Couple at the 2017 Shalom Sydney Jewish Writers Festival.

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Amy Gottlieb - The Beautiful Possible

Mon, 28 Aug 2017 03:31:00 GMT

Amy Gottlieb talks about her book The Beautiful Possible at the 2017 Shalom Sydney Jewish Writers Festival.

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Mark Tedeschi - Murder at Myall Creek

Mon, 28 Aug 2017 03:05:00 GMT

Mark Tedeschi discussed his latest true crime novel Murder at Myall Creek at the 2017 Shalom Sydney Jewish Writers Festival.

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Bram Presser - The Book of Dirt

Mon, 28 Aug 2017 02:31:00 GMT

Bram Presser discusses his debut novel The Book of Dirt at the 2017 Shalom Sydney Jewish Writers Festival.

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Mark Dapin - Jewish Anzacs

Mon, 28 Aug 2017 01:48:00 GMT

Mark Dapin talks about his latest book examining Australian Jews in the military, Jewish Anzacs as part of the 2017 Shalom Sydney Jewish Writers Festival.

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Mark Baker - Thirty Days: A Journey to the End of Love

Mon, 28 Aug 2017 01:11:00 GMT

Mark Baker discusses his latest book Thirty Days: A Journey to the End of Love at the 2017 Shalom Sydney Jewish Writers Festival.

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