Book Review – ‘When God Stops Fighting’ by Mark Juergensmeyer
The full review is available through the journal of ‘Medicine, Conflict and Survival’ ‘When God Stops Fighting: How Religious Violence Ends’ by Mark Juergensmeyer. University of California Press, 2022. ISBN 9780520384729
Book Review – ‘We Share the Same Sky’ by Rachael Cerrotti
There are not many topics that are so often related to in modern-day Jewish literature as the Holocaust. ‘We Share the Same Sky’ is another to this growing pool of publications. However, Rachael Cerrotti’s work is much more than just a memoir or biography: it’s a story of transgenerational consequences of war and interfamily ties that continue to live many years after the initial bonds were established. The work is based on a podcast series Cerrotti previously did in collaboration with the USC Shoah Foundation. ‘We Share the Same Sky’ is both Cerrotti’s story of retracing and describing her grandmother’s life based on diary entries, personal memories and recollections of…