04/24/2025
In honor of Yom HaShoah 2025, Mandel Vilar Press is publishing three important new books in September 2025:
A landmark book by Diego Moldes, "When Einstein Met Kafka: Jewish Contributions to the Modern World." In an effort to respond to and counter the incessant flow of Antisemitic myths and misinformation about Jews on certain social media sites on the Internet since the start of the 21st Century, Moldes provides readers with the most extensive historically grounded account of the extraordinary breadth of Jewish contributions to Western culture in the sciences and arts. He asks and answers the question: how is it that Jews, who account for less than O.2 percent of the world's population and no more than 2.5 percent of any country except Israel, have made some of the greatest contributions to Western culture that have shaped and improved life for humanity in the modern world? In near encyclopedic fashion he reveals just how thousands of individual Jews by name have made original contributions to fields as diverse as medicine, artificial intelligence, science, philosophy, history, economics, business, computing, sports, film, architecture, literature, and in almost every field of human endeavor?
In addition we are publishing two new unique, readable, and relatable Second Generation Holocaust memoirs that address the issue of Inherited Trauma:
"Sons of Survivors: Making Peace with Inherited Trauma" by Aron Hirt-Manheimer & Marty Yura, with a Foreword by Dr.Yael Danieli, a pioneer and expert on inherited trauma. This joint memoir shows how the power of friendship and the love of two sons of Holocaust survivors confront and overcome their inherited trauma.
"Pass the Trauma , Please" by Todd Diamond--a joint publication of Mandel Vilar Press and Fig Tree Books, is a provocative and irreverent Holocaust memoir showing us how the unrelenting aftershocks and trauma of the Holocaust ripple through the generations and how the rise in current global Antisemitism in the post October 7th world are connected.
**Book reviewers, bookstores, bloggers, and librarians can now access a digital review copy of these books on the online platform: https://www.edelweissplus.com
***A limited number of printed and bound advance reader copies based on uncorrected proof may be available for media reviewers and for institutions and organizations who may be interested in inviting these authors to talk about their books.Requests for these copies should be made to the publisher, Robert Mandel at
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