Growing up, journalist Michael Visontay knew that his Hungarian-born father had survived Auschwitz (while losing his own mother there), and that the family had ultimately emigrated to Australia after ...

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Singer and songwriter Christina Perri just released a new children's book inspired by her hit song 'A Thousand Years.' Shop it on Amazon. Buy now.

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Sixty years after he first began serializing it in the Yiddish press, and 42 years after publisher Alfred A. Knopf acquired the book, “Sons and Daughters” — the last novel by the late, great ...

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The Charles Tylers of Mechanic Street, Great Barrington, turned up a 100-year-old geography book and several periodicals one evening while remodeling their kitchen.

In The Trouble of Color, Johns Hopkins History Professor Martha Jones explores racial identity by digging into her own family ...