Gallery 1 — Louise Steinman

The Crooked Mirror: A Memoir of Polish-Jewish Reconciliation

REVIEWS

Forum Żydów Polskich (in Polish), 2021.

Beit Polska, Praise for the Polish Translation of The Crooked Mirror

Wall Street Journal, January 2, 2014,
Reviewed by Diane Cole

Foreign Affairs, March/April 2014
Reviewed by Robert Legvold

Los Angeles Times , November 15, 2013
Reviewed by J. Hoberman

Los Angeles Review of Books, November 2, 2013
“A Way Forward: Louise Steinman’s “The Crooked Mirror,” Reviewed by Piotr Florczyk

Kirkus Reviews, November 5, 2013
“Steinman’s elegiac book is a powerful reminder of how ideologies can become “crooked mirror[s]” that distort reality… "

Photos

Crack in the Wall, Kazimierz Dolny. [photo: Tomasz Cebulski]

Janina and Marian Bereska, 1946? Radomsko. courtesy Bereska family archive.

Marian Bereska, Radomsko Train Station. photo: LS

Interview with Marian Bereska, who with his mother Janina, rescued three Jews in Radomsko. [pictured: Maciej Ziembinski; Szymon Bereska, Tomasz Cebulski] Radomsko, Poland.

Bearing Witness Retreat at Auschwitz-Birkenau. 2002.

Cricoteka, Kantor Studio. Boska Komedia Festival, Krakow. photo: LS

Rabbi Singer, High Holy Day service, Los Angeles.

Council at Bearing Witness Retreat, Birkenau l photo credit: Peter Cunningham

Maria and Cheryl in the market, Kolymyja, Ukraine.

Misterium, Lublin, Poland l by Tomasz Pietrasiewicz