Promoted as an educational coloring book, We Shall Never Forget 9/11: The Kid’s Book of Freedom fails the grade.
Berlin Library Assembles Rare Jewish Texts
By Siobhan O’Leary Berlin’s national library is assembling a new collection of rare Hebrew and Yiddish texts published by Jewish Holocaust survivors in Displaced Person Camps between 1945 and 1950. Approximately 400 titles were published in the DP camps, around 200 of which are in the library’s possession. According to the Boersenblatt, a majority of the religious texts published were …
Is Yale’s Cartoon Controversy Just More Publishing Cowardice?
Sherry Jones, author of The Jewel of Medina, discusses self-censorship and publishers who stand up against threats to freedom of speech and freedom to publish.
Bonus Material: Yale’s Experts Predicted Violence if Cartoons Were Published
By Edward Nawotka Yale University’s decision not to reproduce the September 30, 2005, Jyllands-Posten cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad in Jytte Klausen’s The Cartoons That Shook the World is the subject of today’s lead editorial by author Sherry Jones. Yale, for its part, issued a statement saying that it had consulted with numerous individuals who warned the school printing the cartoons …