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Ilana DeBare

Ilana DeBare, a former board member of J., is working on a novel. She lives in Oakland.

Author Meg Waite Clayton
Posted inBooks, Culture

Bay Area novelist brings Kindertransports to life

by Ilana DeBare September 4, 2019September 6, 2019

The books section is supported by a generous donation from Anne Germanacos. Meg Waite Clayton knew she was writing a novel about the Kindertransports — organized rescue efforts that took 10,000 mostly Jewish children out of the Third Reich on the eve of World War II — but she didn’t know whether to focus on the transports […]

Holocaust survivor and former Berkeley city auditor Anna Rabkin speaking at Temple Sinai in Oakland, March 26, 2019 (Photo/Ilana DeBare)
Posted inUncategorized, Bay Area, News, Seniors

A survivor’s journey from Lvov ghetto to Berkeley City Hall

by Ilana DeBare April 8, 2019April 9, 2019
Posted inBooks, Culture

Award-winning Oakland author dips quill into old Jewish Cairo

by Ilana DeBare June 22, 2018June 28, 2018
Ilana DeBare helps carry a large "Temple Sinai" banner in the march
Posted inLocal Voice, Opinion

Why I marched

by Ilana DeBare January 24, 2017
Posted inArt

Oakland writer revisits his past and his fathers in dual memoir

by Ilana DeBare November 13, 2015December 29, 2016
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first edition | The Seder Table

by Ilana DeBare March 6, 2015December 29, 2016

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