The Kobe Passage: Jewish Refugees in Japan and the Hidden History of the Holocaust’s Most Surprising Escape. Signup & more info @ https://archives.jdc.org/the-kobe-passage/ Friends who have asked about the new project: I’m hugely excited—& nervous! —for my first chance to talk about this publicly. This is a warm welcome to mark your calendars for this free online talk, May 4, 7pm ET/May 5, 8am Tokyo. With enormous thanks to the generosity of the JDC Archives, whose 2025 Sorrell and Lorraine Chesin/JDC Archives Fellowship funds my initial research into this fascinating historical chapter, as part of their fantastic initiative "Across Oceans, Across Cultures: Jewish Refuge in East Asia and the Role of JDC."

Early event warning! New book project! "The Kobe Passage: Jewish Refugees in Japan and the Hidden History of the Holocaust’s Most Surprising Escape." 📚💙 🗃️ Signup & more info @ archives.jdc.org/the-kobe-pas...

If you're in the St Louis area, please join us to remember and honor this painful part of our nation's history. Register for this book talk at the St Louis Holocaust Museum tickets.stlholocaustmuseum.org/events/d9b5a...? 📚💙 🗃️

The Kobe Passage: Jewish Refugees in Japan and the Hidden History of the Holocaust’s Most Surprising Escape. Signup & more info @ https://archives.jdc.org/the-kobe-passage/ Friends who have asked about the new project: I’m hugely excited—& nervous! —for my first chance to talk about this publicly. This is a warm welcome to mark your calendars for this free online talk, May 4, 7pm ET/May 5, 8am Tokyo. With enormous thanks to the generosity of the JDC Archives, whose 2025 Sorrell and Lorraine Chesin/JDC Archives Fellowship funds my initial research into this fascinating historical chapter, as part of their fantastic initiative "Across Oceans, Across Cultures: Jewish Refuge in East Asia and the Role of JDC."

Early event warning! New book project! "The Kobe Passage: Jewish Refugees in Japan and the Hidden History of the Holocaust’s Most Surprising Escape." 📚💙 🗃️ Signup & more info @ archives.jdc.org/the-kobe-pas...

Thanks for taking me to task, @hpsvanessa.bsky.social . You are 1000% right. Appreciate the nudge. And @draftingthepast.bsky.social -- thanks for adding the text in your response!

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Ron Charles @roncharles.bsky.social - You will be missed. But also followed now by me on Substack! Thank you for all you have done for the #writingcommunity 📚💙roncharles.substack.com/

Historians of the US WWII Japanese American incarceration and of American concentration camps, there's a new podcast coming that promises to be really insightful.

This Opening Day, keep an eye out for the First Inning of Diamond in the Rough: Baseball, Bigotry, and the Battle for America, Season Two! 🗃️

americanstudier.podbean.com/e/trailer-17...

@draftingthepast.bsky.social, @bradlisti.bsky.social, @jeffreyyamaguchi.bsky.social, @kathmschmidt.bsky.social -- wondering if you've got any good examples from your previous guests or clients?

Extra points for examples of books that do this particularly well! #writingcommunity 📚💙 🗃️

Photo credit: Courtesy of Manzanar National Historic Site 🗃️

Fuji from the plane. The only thing that made row 53, middle seat, worth it.

Episode 81: The Best History Books You Read This Year Listeners call in to Drafting the Past to tell host Kate Carpenter about the best history books they read in 2025.

Major thanks to @katecarp.bsky.social of @draftingthepast.bsky.social for putting together this episode. And MAJOR thanks to listener Kate Davis for naming Together in Manzanar as the best history book she read in 2025!! 💜 💜 💜 💜 💜 What a way to make my year. draftingthepast.com/podcast-epis...

In the meantime, if you didn't have a chance to check out my podcast's first season, I think it's some of the best writing & work I've ever done, & hope you'll take a listen!

bsky.app/profile/amer...

Thank you @americanstudier.bsky.social 💜! Besides @rmagosaki.bsky.social's excellent suggestion, I can recommend @denshoproject.bsky.social's other amazing resources, including their archive of Manzanar's newspaper, which carried lots of sports coverage: ddr.densho.org/browse/topic.... Good luck!

Yay!! Can’t wait to listen!

Thank you! Let me know what you think of the book when you get a chance to read it!

Grateful to whomever is buying my existing book, especially while I try to motivate to get working on the next one! Seeing this helps. #writingcommunity 📚💙 🗃️

You're soaking in it Propaganda, transphobia, and an end to manufacturing hate.

Another crucial piece of writing from @andreapitzer.bsky.social, this time smartly pointing out parallels between dangers posed by current political discourse & propaganda impacting trans communities, immigrants, and Jewish communities in the US and beyond. degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/you-re-soa...?

So You Broke Up with Your Agent ... Now What? Tracy Slater shares her agent pitch letter that earned her representation for "Together in Manzanar."

With @tracyslater.bsky.social, who broke up with her agent:

welcometopitchclub.substack.com/p/so-you-bro...

A very warm welcome to join us virtually, Dec 9, 7:30-8:30pm ET; Dec 10, 9:30-10:30 Tokyo time, @ us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...! #booksky 🗃️

Together in Manzanar – Join a Free, Virtual Author Talk by Tracy Slater on Tuesday, December 9 @ 7:30pm A Free, Virtual Author Talk by Tracy Slater on Together in Manzanar: The True Story of a Japanese Jewish Family in an American Concentration Camp Tuesday, December 9 at 7:30pm on Zoom Falmouth Jewish...

A virtual talk that works for both North American & Japan-based friends! 7:30pm ET Tues., Dec 9; 9:30am Tokyo time, Wed., Dec 10: A mother's fight to reconcile conflicting ethical, personal, & political forces from inside an American concentration camp. 📚💙 🗃️ www.falmouthjewish.org/together-in-...

Some Together in Manzanar/Burn Order trivia: The "Ringle Report" that Maddow focuses on in episode 1 was written from the same building, on letterhead listing the same address--707 South Spring Street in LA--where Elaine and Tommy were ordered to go to register for Tommy's incarceration in Manzanar.

Great to see this history getting such exposure, from @maddow.bsky.social, "the other Jewish American woman/writer" focusing on the forced removal & incarceration of the West Coast Japanese American community during WWII... #booksky 🗃️

Some Together in Manzanar/Burn Order trivia: The "Ringle Report" that Maddow focuses on in episode 1 was written from the same building, on letterhead listing the same address--707 South Spring Street in LA--where Elaine and Tommy were ordered to go to register for Tommy's incarceration in Manzanar.

Great to see this history getting such exposure, from @maddow.bsky.social, "the other Jewish American woman/writer" focusing on the forced removal & incarceration of the West Coast Japanese American community during WWII... #booksky 🗃️

Together in Manzanar – Join a Free, Virtual Author Talk by Tracy Slater on Tuesday, December 9 @ 7:30pm A Free, Virtual Author Talk by Tracy Slater on Together in Manzanar: The True Story of a Japanese Jewish Family in an American Concentration Camp Tuesday, December 9 at 7:30pm on Zoom Falmouth Jewish...

A virtual talk that works for both North American & Japan-based friends! 7:30pm ET Tues., Dec 9; 9:30am Tokyo time, Wed., Dec 10: A mother's fight to reconcile conflicting ethical, personal, & political forces from inside an American concentration camp. 📚💙 🗃️ www.falmouthjewish.org/together-in-...

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or not traumatic. Japanese Canadians were interned for the same reason as Japanese Americans: racism. Further, Japanese Americans were permitted to return to the Pacific Coast in 1945. Japanese Canadians were permitted to do so in 1949! A must read!
Apologies, Tracy, for the length of this!

in one location. That said, there were similar tensions within Angler (all male dynamic) of lateral violence, and there was one stabbing in Tashme. But just because there were fever acts of overt violence either between Japanese Canadians and/or Canadian authorities does not make what happened