As the High Holy Days approach, the importance of introspection and self-reflection cannot be overemphasized. We owe it to ourselves and those we love to make positive resolutions for the new year.
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“There is a question mark, almost lost in a sea of names on the walls of an old synagogue in Prague. Each was a resident of the Czech districts of Bohemia and Moravia during the war. All were victims of the Nazis. One entry bears the name of my father, Hanus Stanislav Neumann, born on February 9, 1921. It is different. Unlike the others on that wall, it has no date of death.”
I’m Betty Martin with Martin’s Must Reads and those are some lines from the beginning of
When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father’s War and What Remains by Ariana Neumann. Ariana grew up in Venezuela with her father and stepmother. It wasn’t until after her father’s death that Ariana knew anything about her father’s life during WWII, including that he was Jewish.
Yaniv Iczkovits, author of The Slaughterman s Daughter. (Photo by Eric Sultan)
LONDON Israeli writer Yaniv Iczkovits is no stranger to winning literary prizes for his historical novel, “The Slaughterman’s Daughter.” Since its publication in Hebrew in 2015, Iczkovits has received both the Ramat Gan and Agnon prizes, and the book was also shortlisted for Israel’s prestigious Sapir Prize. But Iczkovits describes being announced the winner of the 2021 Wingate Literary Prize this past March as his best moment as a writer.
“I was sure I wasn’t going to win. Everyone had prepared me and said I had no chance, that they’re going to go for the big names,” Iczkovits tells The Times of Israel via Zoom, from his home in Tel Aviv.