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‘Women and War’

Growing up in Beverly Hills, Marissa Roth remembers her father and mother, both European refugees, as parents who repressed their emotions and personal suffering, and forbade their children to cry.

Adding Soul to the Syllabus

One by one, a class of sixth-graders read aloud a passage and title that each has selected to go with one of Zion Ozeri\’s striking black-and-white portraits.

Seated with the young critics at Morasha Jewish Day School, the New York photographer seems pleased when students accurately discern the context of his untitled images, which the students have filtered through their study of Jewish values.

Neither does he hesitate to crib from one who summoned a particularly apt metaphor for a photo of candle lighting. \”What was that title?\” he asked, scrambling for pen and paper during a morning-long session last month.

Heroes’ Stories Discovered Again

\n\”The Jews of Ethiopia: A Personal Journey Back to Their Past\” consists of a collection of some 60 black-and-white photos taken by Dr. Wolf Leslau during a number of explorations of the Ethiopian hinterlands, starting in the mid-1940s.

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