April 10, 2023
NONFICTION Speaking Yiddish to Chickens: Holocaust Survivors on South Jersey Poultry Farms Mark Welch – April 10, 2023 Seth Stern has a deeply personal connection to the story he tells about the Jewish… READ MORE
April 5, 2023
Prof. Angela Hattery and Earl Smith sat down with KPFA Radio‘s Law and Disorder to talk with Cat Brooks about their new book “Way Down in the Hole: Way Down in the Hole: Race, Intimacy, and… READ MORE
“Journalist Seth Stern tells this story in his fascinating new book, Speaking Yiddish to Chickens: Holocaust Survivors on South Jersey Poultry Farms…Speaking Yiddish to Chickens is much more than one man’s story… READ MORE
How Much Garbage Does New Jersey Generate? ‘You Can’t Really Comprehend’ In Garbage in the Garden State, Jordan P. Howell traces NJ’s decades-long efforts to regulate and dispose of waste…. READ MORE
“I grew up Jewish on a chicken farm. This book gets it right…The beauty of Speaking Yiddish to Chickens lies in Stern’s skill at conveying the ups and downs of some 1,000… READ MORE
“Versfeld distills the complex mess generated by the intersection of TB and drug-use at both a societal and an individual level with startling clarity and brevity. Her message rings throughout… READ MORE
February 27, 2023
CLICK HERE TO LISTEN In 1938, an African American housekeeper and hairstylist from Newark, N.J., made a remarkable journey to South Africa, driven partly by her desire to understand her… READ MORE
February 20, 2023
The Mare Nostrum Group is delighted to announce that from the 1st July 2023 Combined Academic Publishers (CAP) will be responsible for the distribution, sales, and marketing operations for Rutgers… READ MORE
February 15, 2023
These new farmers, adapting to an isolating rural way of life, found comfort in Yiddish culture, a link to lost families and hometowns By Seth Stern February 13, 2023 Few people… READ MORE
January 27, 2023
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (January 27, 2023) — Rutgers University Press will publish an accessible and comprehensive history written and edited by historians from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History and the National Comedy Center with additional contributions from the Smithsonian’s National Museum… READ MORE
