JEWISH HERITAGE
New York, N.Y. 10013
Tel. (212) 925-9067
Fax: (212) 343-2553
E-mail: alanadelson@verizon.net
Keeping Jewish Heritage Alive Through
Literature
Jewish Heritage is
one of the world’s oldest and most active organizations
dedicated to enriching the literary bookshelf with works of
literature related to Jewish history and culture.
By partnering with archives to bring
unpublished works to a broad readership and supporting
contemporary authors Jewish Heritage has helped bring to light
many books of great literary and historical significance.
Black Grass
Golem of Auschwitz Read by Robert Zukerman
Book the Author
Full houses, strong audience appreciation has resulted from dramatic readings of the stories and conversations with the author. Click on the links below to see how Black Grass and Other Stories
have been presented as short fictions in response to the Holocaust. Holocaust Story: "Black Grass" Read by Norma Fire
"The Golem of Auschwitz" Read by Robert Zukerman
And on the following link for a conversation with the author, Bernard Otterman, on the origins of the stories, and for a reading of the title story. As presented on June 5, 2008, 6:30pm, at the Center for Jewish History,
New York City.
Holocaust Author Bernard Otterman Discusses His Book with Alan Adelson
The International Initiative in the
Literature of the HolocaustIn 1999, under establishing grants from the
National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on
the Arts, the Lowe II Foundation and the Strochlitz Foundation,
Jewish Heritage launched an intensified effort to bring the
most worthy memoirs written by Holocaust survivors to
publication. Mentors working under Jewish Heritage’s
auspices have assisted hundreds of authors, most of them
Holocaust survivors, to bring their books to the light of
print.
The project emphasizes cross-generational
assistance which puts professionally accomplished young writers
and editors to work assisting authors from the heroic
generation which brought Jewish culture to America. Our mentors
work with authors to organize, edit and complete book-length
memoirs documenting the Jewish immigrant experience and Jewish
culture’s roots in Europe.
Publishing House and Literary Agency
In addition to providing editorial
assistance, the Jewish Heritage functions as both a publishing
house and a specialized, not-for-profit literary agency,
enriching the Jewish bookshelf around the world by bringing
significant literary, cultural and historical works to the
light of print in the existing literary marketplace.
Jewish Heritage’s recent releases
include the very widely acclaimed Regions
of the Great Heresy: Bruno Schulz by
Jerzy Ficowski, published by WW Norton, Drohobycz, Drohobycz, True Tales from the Holocaust and
Life After by Henryk Grynberg,
published by Penguin, winner of the 2002 Koret Jewish Book Prize in
fiction, and under the project’s own imprint, the
Holocaust memoirs, My Shadowlife by Richard Bugajer and Judaism is Indestructible, a Rabbi’s Holocaust Memoir by Isidore
Greengrass, as well as the beautiful collection of art
reproductions and midrashic interpretations of Scripture, Biblical Visions, by
Janet Shafner.
Publishers
Over the years Jewish Heritage has
developed close working relationships with editors at many
publishing houses, including Random House, Harcourt Brace, St.
Martin's Press, Norton, Viking/Penguin, Oxford University
Press, the University of Illinois, the University of Michigan
Press, the University of Calgary Press, Southern Illinois
University Press, the University of Michigan Press.
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