Dear friends and colleagues,
You have before you my April publications

1. השליחות האינטרנציונלית של ז׳אן־רישאר בלוך. עיתון 77,#441 , עמוד 40 24 מרץ 2025.

https://iton77.com/%d7%92%d7%99%d7%9c%d7%99%d7%95%d7%9f-341

The material presented in this paragraph was published March 31 in the literary magazine Iton 77. I sent it to you in the newsletter of my works published in March, but the link to the magazine's website was not sufficient to read the essay, as this issue of the magazine was closed to readers. So I am sending you the text of the article on the French writer Jean-Richard Bloch in Word.     

2. Jewish Biography: Jacques Offenbach, Musical Satirist. San Diego Jewish World, March 31, 2025.

https://www.sdjewishworld.com/2025/03/31/jewish-biography-jacques-offenbach-musical-satirist/

This work is dedicated to the French composer Jacques Offenbach, the founder of the operetta genre.

3. פרופ' אברהם פרנקל: מהזוועות במינכן למהפכה הציונית. הידען, 4 באפריל 2025.

https://www.hayadan.org.il/abraham-halevi-frankel

This essay is about German-Israeli mathematician Abraham Fraenkel, a prize-winning Israeli mathematician 

4. Jewish Biography: Samuel Marshak, Soviet Children’s Writer. San Diego Jewish World, April 7, 2025.

https://www.sdjewishworld.com/2025/04/07/jewish-biography-samuel-marshak-soviet-childrens-writer/

The hero of this article is the Soviet children's poet and outstanding English translator Samuil Marshak

5. Jewish Biography, Bernard Lecache, Founder of the International League against Racism and Antisemitism. San Diego Jewish World, April 14, 2025.

https://www.sdjewishworld.com/2025/04/14/jewish-biography-bernard-lecache-founder-of-the-international-league-against-racism-and-antisemitism/

French journalist and anti-Semitism fighter Bernard Lecache is at the center of this story. You will find autobiographical elements in this narrative as well, as one of my family members collaborated with Lecache in investigating the largest anti-Jewish pogrom in Ukraine during the Russian Civil War. 

6.

ויכוח תיאולוגי – סיפור לפסח. יקום תרבות, 15 באפריל 2025.

https://www.yekum.org/2025/04/%d7%95%d7%99%d7%9b%d7%95%d7%97-%d7%aa%d7%99%d7%90%d7%95%d7%9c%d7%95%d7%92%d7%99-%d7%a1%d7%99%d7%a4%d7%95%d7%a8-%d7%9c%d7%a4%d7%a1%d7%97/

This paragraph presents two stories about the celebration of Passover in the USSR, taken from my Hebrew book My Dear Dissonances: Kiev Stories (Carmel, 2024). Both stories are humorous, but the editor of the magazine that published them considers them tragic as well.  

7. Jewish Biography: Isaak Dunayevsky, Soviet Pop Composer. San Diego Jewish World, April 21, 2025.

https://www.sdjewishworld.com/2025/04/21/jewish-biography-isaak-dunayevsky-soviet-pop-composer/

 This section provides a brief biography of Soviet composer Isaac Dunayevsky.

8. 

Jewish Biography: Alfred Adler, Individual Psychologist. San Diego Jewish World, April 28, 2025.

https://www.sdjewishworld.com/2025/04/28/jewish-biography-alfred-adler-individual-psychologist/

This last essay is about the eminent Austrian psychologist Alfred Adler.

Congratulations on Israel's 77th Independence Day.

Alex.