March 15, 2024
My life with Bruce Springsteen This essay is a Preview, an occasional feature at Current and a companion to our Review features. In Previews we publish short excerpts from new and upcoming… READ MORE
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
“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
“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
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
February 19, 2017
Is Botox really feminist after all? Kristen Barber, author of Styling Masculinity: Gender, Class, and Inequality in the Men’s Grooming Industry, helps Lindsy Van Gelder tackle this and other questions about economic… READ MORE
January 31, 2017
In this episode of NPR’s Hidden Brain, Deborah E. Lipstadt – author of Holocaust: An American Understanding – discusses the Holocaust and the global response to Jewish refugees and cautions about… READ MORE
November 23, 2016
A number of colleges across the nation are taking steps to confront their own historical ties to racism and slavery, and one of those is Rutgers — New Jersey’s state… READ MORE
November 22, 2016
Juan González interviewed Marisa Fuentes, co-editor of ‘Scarlet and Black,’ on the November 22nd episode of Democracy Now! From the Democracy Now! website: A sweeping new report reveals ties to… READ MORE
