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Arts & Culture, People

Warren Kramer: A Survivor’s Story

95-year-old Warren Kramer, pictured above in his youth with his parents and grandparents, spends the colder half of each year in Memphis with his daughter, Adina Samberg, and her family, living in New York City with his other daughter Evelyn Moskowitz for the spring and summer months. Jewish…

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Holocaust Art & Essay Winners Announced

Memphis Jewish Federation’s 10th Annual Holocaust Artand Essay Competition invited students to respond to the topic SustainingCulture and Community: The Many Faces of Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto. Open to all students in Tennessee and the Mid-South, the contestdrew submissions from a diverse group of…

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An Israeli in Memphis: I Feel an Embrace

Tali Versano Eisman, resident of Memphis’s Israeli partner city Shoham and a member of the Memphis-Shoham project’s steering committee, visited Memphis in October to deepen ties between the two communities, and to speak at this year’s Israel Festival. In this piece, she reflects on her visit…

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