“Taking the Fight South:
Chronicle of a Jew’s Battle
for Civil Rights in Mississippi”
of Schock
en Books
Courtesy sy
“With her reputation as a vilde chaya (wild
animal), Fanny Keismann isn’t like the
other women in her shtetl in Russia’s Pale
of Settlement — certainly not her obedient
and anxiety-ridden sister, Mende, whose
‘philosopher’ of a husband, Zvi-Meir, has
run off to Minsk, abandoning her and
their two children.” What more do you
need than that? ❆
Courte Yaniv Iczkovits
(Feb. 23)
e of Notr
“The Slaughterman’s Daughter”
ersity of Univ
In 1976, historian and civil rights activist
Howard Ball moved his family from the
Bronx to Starkville, Mississippi, where
they’d stay until 1982. Ball describes the
experience of his Jewish New York brood
as they fend off KKK phone calls and fi ght
for a more just future.

ress Dame P
Howard Ball
(Feb. 21)
jbernstein@jewishexponent.com; 215-832-0740
There are many pages
in a long, rich life.

What will you be inspired
to do next?
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Or just find peace in watching
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...to be continued
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