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Ecologies of witnessing: language, place and holocaust testimony: by Hannah Pollin-Galay, New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2018, 335 pp., £45.00, ISBN 978-0300226041 Ecologies of witnessing: language, place and holocaust testimony, by The Lithuanian-Yiddish ecology represents what the author deems a "collective-forensic" type of testimony, where people are connected through circumstances of ethnicity, workplace and geographic origin. [Extracted from the article]

Review of: News Values from an Audience Perspective, Martina Temmerman and Jelle Mast (eds) (2021) Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 190 pp., ISBN 978-3-03045-045-8, h/bk, EUR 99.99 ISBN 978-3-03045-048-9, p/bk, EUR 69.99 ISBN 978-3-03045-046-5, e-book, EUR 58.54 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

How police redress their past wrongs toward Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) communities remains contentious. Unlawful and unreasonable police conduct can undermine police legitimacy over decades and between generations, as the Victorian Police apology on the twentieth anniversary of the Tasty raid demonstrates. However, the outcome from that year was a range of policy changes based on LGBT community recommendations, and a Memorandum of Understanding about how the Mardi Gras is policed - police transgression in that case a catalyst for positive change (Dwyer & Tomsen, [9]). [Extracted from the article]

A review of the book "Victorious," by Yishai Sarid, translated by Yardenne Greenspan, is presented.