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Kevin Kelly’s Letter to Children About the Glory of Books and the Superpower of Reading in an Image-Based Digital Culture Holocaust

Kevin Kelly’s Letter to Children About the Glory of Books and the Superpower of Reading in an Image-Based Digital Culture

In his epoch-making 1632 book Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems: Ptolemaic and Copernican, Galileo made a subtle case for how reading gives us super-human powers. Printed books were a young medium then, still in many ways a luxury for the privil…
bubmag
October 3, 2019
Alex Borstein Holocaust

Alex Borstein

are immigrantsthey are holocaust survivors. My grandmother was in line to be shot into a pit. She said, ‘What happens if I step out of line?’ said, ‘I don’t have the heart to shoot you, but somebody will.’ And she stepped out of l…
bubmag
September 30, 2019
The Mail Holocaust

The Mail

Bearing Witness I read Zuzana Justmans Personal History about her experience in the Terezín concentration camp with interest and gratitude (My Terezín Diary, September 16th). I was one of those fortunate German-Jewish children whose parents were able to arra…
bubmag
September 30, 2019