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Spring Virtual Tour for PILLAR OF SALT:

Spring Virtual Tour for PILLAR OF SALT: A Daughter’s Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust

by Anna Salton Eisen with Aaron Eisen

Anna Salton Eisen is the child of Holocaust survivors and author of an important new book, PILLAR OF SALT: A Daughter’s Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust (Mandel Villar Press Trade Paperback Original; April 26, 2022; $19.95; ISBN: 978-1942134824). Part memoir, part travelogue, PILLAR OF SALT beautifully tells the important story of the second generation, which grows more vital with the aging of the remaining Holocaust survivors. It shares a new understanding of how a child of Holocaust survivors’ identity is shaped. It will be released in time for Yom Hashoah/Holocaust Remembrance Day, which this year falls on April 28, 2022.

Join us April 24th – May 12th for the virtual book tour on behalf of PILLAR OF SALT as we share features, book giveaways, spotlights and reviews.

“Anna Salton Eisen inspires me. Antisemitism and Holocaust denial are real. Quality Holocaust education is necessary. By sharing her family stories and personal journey with honesty and clarity, she illuminates our past and helps us recognize the truth and challenge of the Holocaust.

–Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker, Rabbi of Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas and held hostage in January during an antisemitic attack on his congregation

“Anna Salton Eisen’s important exploration of her Holocaust heritage is about building community, building connection, through history, through your family, through your story.”

–Deb Liu, CEO Ancestry.com

“A true and beautiful story of a daughter’s quest to understand her parents’ haunted past, and to discover … the indissoluble nature of love and family. A powerful and poignant read.”

—Jennifer Rosner,author ofThe Yellow Bird Sings,a National Jewish Book Award Finalist

Sunday, April 24 – Plains Reading

Monday, April 25 – We Break For Books

Tuesday, April 26 – Nurse Bookie

Wednesday, April 27 – Blunt Scissors Book Review

Thursday, April 28 – Rozie Reads and Wine      

Friday, April 29 – The Caffeinated Reader

Saturday, April 30 – Subakka Bookstuff

Monday, May 2 – The Unwined Book Club

Tuesday, May 3 – Sue the Bookie

Wednesday, May 4 – It’s Bibliotherapy 

Thursday, May 5 – Suzy Approved Book Reviews

Friday, May 6 – Vee’s Reading List and Well Read Traveler

Sunday, May 8 – Books and Coffee Mx                                                                                         

Monday, May 9 – Women Writers Women’s Books

Tuesday, May 10 – Reading Through Nap Time

Wednesday, May 11 – Mel Reads All The Things and Mere Words in Arizona

Thursday, May 12 – Girl Who Reads

Filed Under: Blog Tours Tagged With: Anna Salton Eisen, Holocaust, Jewish author, Jewish interest, Mandel Vilar Press, Memoir, OTRPR, Over the River PR, Over the River Public Relations, Pillar of Salt

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Coming April 26, 2022

PILLAR OF SALT

A Daughter’s Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust

by Anna Salton Eisen with Aaron Eisen

“Anna Salton Eisen’s PILLAR OF SALT is a profoundly moving tale of generational trauma and healing between father and daughter. Through her travels with him to Poland, and her relentless search through personal keepsakes and Nazi archives, she discovers her own history and in doing so grapples with questions in the hearts of all of us. Her writing is straightforward and present, effortlessly whisking the reader along for the journey, into the beast of the past, to emerge into a new light. I am grateful to be working with such wonderful source material as PILLAR OF SALT for a feature length documentary film.” –Jacob Wise, filmmaker of In My Father’s Words (fall 2022, JWise Productions)  

“Anna Salton Eisen’s important exploration of her Holocaust heritage is about building community, building connection, through history, through your family, through your story.”
–Deb Liu, CEO Ancestry.com

As the daughter of Holocaust survivors, Anna Salton Eisen breaks the silence that was intended as a protective shield against the unspeakable past in her new memoir, PILLAR OF SALT: A Daughter’s Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust (Mandel Vilar Press Trade Paperback Original; April 26, 2022; $19.95). A new voice in Holocaust literature, Anna begins this heart-wrenching memoir as she looks back to her own youth when she discovers two hidden watercolor paintings depicting the horrors of the Holocaust and sets out to uncover the truth of her father’s past. Her quest leads her on a journey to unlock a history sealed in silence and buried by time. With her father as her guide, she travels through the picturesque Polish countryside pockmarked by the remnants of former concentration camps and sites of desolate Holocaust memorials. Together with her family, they return to the ghetto where her father’s imprisonment in ten concentration camps over three years began. They also find their way back to his boyhood town and into his childhood home where painful memories exist, but strangers now live. Through her keen observations and open heart, Anna combines the meticulous work of an archaeologist with the compassionate perspective of a daughter.

“Writing PILLAR OF SALT has allowed me to tell the story of looking back and sharing how I was changed and made incredible connections when I took on the legacy of the second generation. I found my father when I tried to help him carry the pain and memories of the Holocaust.” -Anna Salton Eisen

PILLAR OF SALT is a second book for Anna Salton Eisen, who co-wrote The 23rd Psalm: A Holocaust Memoir with her father, George Salton, which will be released in a new expanded edition in Fall 2022 (Mandel Vilar Press).

ABOUT THE AUTHORS: Anna Salton Eisen was a founding member and the first president of Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas. She has conducted extensive research into the Holocaust and spoken on that topic to school and community groups. She served as a docent for the Dallas Memorial Center for Holocaust Studies (now the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum) and conducted Holocaust survivor interviews for the USC Shoah Foundation. Anna is an Ambassador to #everynamecounts, a digital initiative of the Arolsen Archives, the world’s most comprehensive archive on the victims and survivors of Nazi persecution. A licensed social worker, Salton Eisen formerly practiced as a therapist, specializing in mental health and trauma. She lives in Westlake, Texas.

Aaron Eisen is a third-generation Jewish writer. Along with co-authoring PILLAR OF SALT, he is an important part of the upcoming documentary film project, In My Father’s Words. A graduate of the University of Virginia, Aaron is working on a non-fiction book about the impact of the Holocaust on the humanities in contemporary America.

On sale in time for Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 28, 2022.

More praise for PILLAR OF SALT:

“A vividly colored, elegant study of family dynamics as two generations eventually came to terms with a tragic Holocaust past.”

—Richard Breitman, author of The Berlin Mission: The American Who Resisted Nazi Germany from Within

“Navigating her way through the ruins of memory, Anna bears eloquent witness to the scope of the Holocaust that continues to cast its shadow over generations…. Anna found the courage to pen these powerful words [and] we must find the courage to read them and be transformed into witnesses.”

—David Patterson, Hillel A. Feinberg Distinguished Chair in Holocaust Studies, University of Texas at Dallas

“A true and beautiful story of a daughter’s quest to understand her parents’ haunted past, and to discover … the indissoluble nature of love and family. A powerful and poignant read.”

—Jennifer Rosner,author ofThe Yellow Bird Sings,a National Jewish Book Award Finalist

For further information, review copy requests, or to schedule an interview with Anna Salton Eisen, please contact Rachel Tarlow Gul at Over the River Public Relations: rachel@otrpr.com, 201-503-1321.

ISBN 9781942134824, 190 text pages plus 8 pages of photos, artwork, and map, 6 x 9, $19.95

E-ISBN 9781942134831, 190 text pages plus 8 pages of photos, artwork, and map, 6 x 9, $9.99

For more information, visit https://www.mvpublishers.org/.

Individuals can order on Amazon.com, Independent Booksellers at Bookshop.com or at www.mvpublishers.org.

Trade Distribution: Consortium Book Sales and Distribution | 800.283.3572 | Sales.Orders@cbsd.com

Filed Under: News & Announcements, Uncategorized Tagged With: Anna Salton Eisen, April release, Holocaust, Mandel Vilar Press, Memoir, OTRPR, Over the River PR, Over the River Public Relations, Pillar of Salt

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Jay Neugeboren’s latest novel, MAX BAER AND THE STAR OF DAVID, debuts this week from Mandel Vilar Press

MaxBaer_CVR_FinalWhen Jay Neugeboren’s first novel, Big Man, was published, James Michener called it “as good a sports novel as has ever been written.” Now, nearly a half-century later, Neugeboren is publishing MAX BAER AND THE STAR OF DAVID (Mandel Vilar Press Trade Paperback Original; February 9, 2016), his 22nd book and a remarkable novel that is centered on the life of the world heavyweight champion, Max Baer.

The novel has received wonderful advanced praise from several critically acclaimed authors, including:

“Neugeboren has never been better than in this lush, joyful novel—as erotic and mysterious as The Song of Songs, and as clear as a heavyweight champion’s punch in the gut. I loved it.”

—ROBERT LIPSYTE, author of An Accidental Sportswriter

“Max Baer and the Star of David is a strange and strangely beautiful tale that conjures up a golden era of boxing in the way A. J. Liebling did in The Sweet Science. I was enchanted from start to finish, and when I closed the book I thought ‘Damn, this dude can write!’”

       —GARY SHTEYNGART, author of Little Failure: A Memoir 

“This lively, high-spirited novel is an irresistible tribute to the sweet science, and a thrillingly jaunty evocation of an almost forgotten era.  Neugeboren has, as always, the gift of creating vivid characters and the imagination to put them through delicious travails.”

—PHILLIP LOPATE, author of Portrait Inside My Head

And here are links to some of the coverage running this week:

Blunderbuss Magazine

Boxing.com

NewPages.com

Reviews by Amos Lassen

Visit Jay Neugeboren’s website and Mandel Vilar Press for more information.

Filed Under: Books, Fiction Tagged With: fiction, Jay Neugeboren, Jewish fiction, Mandel Vilar Press, Max Baer, Over the River Public Relations, Sports fiction

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Miami Beach Selects Thane Rosenbaum’s How Sweet It Is! For Its One Book, One City Initiative

The City of Miami Beach has announced that in recognition of its Centennial celebration, it will launch a citywide book club reading experience titled, One Book, One City. Its very first selection will be Thane Rosenbaum’s latest novel, HOW SWEET IT IS!, a literary, comedic tale set in Miami Beach in the summer of 1972. A novelist, essayist and law professor living in New York, Rosenbaum was raised in Miami Beach and is arguably the city’s most critically acclaimed author/native son.

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Mandel Vilar Press will create a special and elegant paperback edition of HOW SWEET IT IS! just for Miami Beach’s Centennial, which will be available by the end of September. Readers will have plenty of time to read the novel and prepare for all of the fun events that will be taking place in November around the novel.

Citywide programming includes:

  • 11/4 – Kick-off event with Thane Rosenbaum at the Jewish Museum, 7pm.
  • 11/7 – Miami Beach Library Branch Read-A-Thon, 2-4pm in the auditorium
  • 11/15 – Book reading at the Betsy Hotel with Thane Rosenbaum, 7:30-8:30pm.
  • 11/17 – Miami Beach Library Branch Book Discussion with Thane Rosenbaum, 6:30pm – 7:30pm.
  • 11/18 – South Shore Library Book Group Discussion, 6:30pm – 7:30pm.
  • 11/25 – Miami Beach Bandshell, Food Truck Rally, appearance with Thane Rosenbaum and locals from the 1970s, 7:30 – 8:30pm.

Thane Rosenbaum will also discuss and sign copies of HOW SWEET IT IS! at the Miami Book Fair International on either the 21st or the 22nd of November.

Set during the historic and tumultuous year of 1972, HOW SWEET IT IS! follows the Posner family—two Holocaust survivors, Sophie and Jacob and their son, Adam—doing everything they can to avoid one another in a city with an infinite supply of colorful diversions. The book covers the antiwar movement, Watergate, sports (Super Bowl winning season, the Munich Olympics, and Muhammad Ali’s return to championship form), the rise of the counterculture, the desegregation of the south, the fading of the Jewish Mafia, the Rat Pack, and the wacky, poignant and hilarious gestalt of Miami in the 70s.

A Reader’s Guide for HOW SWEET IT IS! is available here .

Filed Under: Books, Fiction, News & Announcements Tagged With: fiction, How Sweet It Is!, Jewish fiction, Mandel Vilar Press, Miami Beach, Miami Beach Centennial, One Book One City, OTRPR, Over the River Public Relations, Reader's Guide, Thane Rosenbaum

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Foreword Reviews loves Alan Lelchuk’s Breaking Ground

Alan Lelchuk’s BREAKING GROUND: How Jackie Robinson Changed Brooklyn will be on sale September 15th.  Foreword Reviews just gave it a wonderful review.

The reviewer, Melissa Wuske, writes, “Lelchuk sets the bar high for Robinson’s impact—’Robinson did something for and through baseball that no other great player had ever done’—but he calmly proves every bold statement through his narrative research.”  She goes on to explain that, “Many are familiar with Robinson’s baseball career and cultural impact, but Lelchuk gives insight into the hope Robinson brought specifically to Brooklyn, and particularly to its immigrant families.”

For the full review visit https://www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/breaking-ground-how-jackie-robinson-changed-brooklyn/.

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Filed Under: Books, Memoir, Reviews & Features Tagged With: Alan Lelchuk, Baseball, Baseball book, Breaking Ground, Jackie Robinson, Mandel Vilar Press, Memoir, Over the River Public Relations, September book

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