Memories get classified in ways that seem at first blush straightforward. They can be short-term or long-term, semantic or episodic. Semantic memories consist of remembered facts not personally ...

Growing up, Jane Ziegelman often heard stories about the old country from family members gathered at her grandmother’s home in Queens, N.Y. In time young Jane would become familiar with many of the ...

In this bittersweet account, culinary historian Ziegelman (A Square Meal) introduces readers to a remarkable but little-known artifact of the Jewish diaspora: yizkor books, or memory books. When the ...

Drawing from memory, reportage and personal loss, the author Hoihnu Hauzel pieces together stories of displacement, grief and ...

The complexity of identity, belonging and memory forms the central theme of Aatish Taseer’s book, A Return to Self. Spanning ...