The inaugural Robert Mortensen Book Prize is awarded to Camilla Townsend, co-author of On the Turtle’s Back: Stories the Lenape Told Their Grandchildren, published in 2023.
Rutgers University Press was proud to present Camilla Townsend with the inaugural Robert Mortenson Book Prize during the 2023 Rutgers University Celebration of Scholarship and during Native American Heritage Month. ...
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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 refugees, Holocaust survivors, and immigrants who settled in and around Vineland, New Jersey — once called the “Egg Basket of America” bec...
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 the Reproduction of Racial Ideologies in Solitary Confinement" out now!
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"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 about his grandparents. Stern’s journalistic expertise allows him to broaden his scope, deftly layering different perspectives and narratives throughout the book." —Rokhl Kafriss...
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"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 survivors, each with their unique hardscrabble story." —The Forward
Read the full review here: https://forward.com/forverts-in-english/540644/i-grew-up-jewish-on-a-chicken-farm-this-book-gets-it-right/
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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 ancestral heritage. Lida Clanton Broner was also an activist, and during her trip she lectured and circulated among South Africa's Black intellectual elite.
She also collected art, and in a new book, “The...
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 University Press in the following territories: UK, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia Pacific. From this date CAP will replace Eurospan as distributor, and orders will be supplied by Mare Nost...
These new farmers, adapting to an isolating rural way of life, found comfort in Yiddish culture, a link to lost families and hometowns
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By Seth Stern February 13, 2023
Few people know that after World War II, roughly a thousand Holocaust survivors settled in southern New Jersey as poultry farmers. My own grandparents were a...
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