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Tracy Slater @tracyslater.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Huge thanks to Ben Railton @ben.railton for his shoutout of Together in Manzanar in his fantastic finale to Season 2 of his podcast DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH. And to be shouted-out alongside @tamikonimura.bsky.social and @frankabe.bsky.social--this makes it triply-special.

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Tracy Slater @tracyslater.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Just-released video: "The Kobe Passage: Jewish Refugees in Japan and the Hidden History of the Holocaust’s Most Surprising Escape" archives.jdc.org/tracy-slater...

Tracy Slater Lectures on The Kobe Passage: Jewish Refugees in Japan and the Hidden History of the Holocaust’s Most Surprising Escape

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Tracy Slater @tracyslater.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Just-released video: "The Kobe Passage: Jewish Refugees in Japan and the Hidden History of the Holocaust’s Most Surprising Escape" archives.jdc.org/tracy-slater...

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Tracy Slater @tracyslater.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

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...

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Tracy Slater @tracyslater.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

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...? 📚💙 🗃️

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Tracy Slater @tracyslater.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

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 📚💙https://roncharles.substack.com/?r=77a5d&utm_campaign=subscribe-page-share-screen&utm_medium=web

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Ron Charles | Substack

I write about books for The Washington Post. I talk about books for CBS Sunday Morning. Click to read Ron Charles, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

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Tracy Slater @tracyslater.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

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.

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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

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...

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Trailer | Diamond in the Rough

Diamond in the Rough: Baseball, Bigotry, and the Battle for America, Season 2.

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Tracy Slater @tracyslater.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

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

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Tracy Slater @tracyslater.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Photo credit: Courtesy of Manzanar National Historic Site 🗃️

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Tracy Slater @tracyslater.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

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

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Tracy Slater @tracyslater.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

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...

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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.

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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

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...

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Tracy Slater @tracyslater.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

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 📚💙 🗃️

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Tracy Slater @tracyslater.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

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...?

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You're soaking in it

Propaganda, transphobia, and an end to manufacturing hate.

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Tracy Slater @tracyslater.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

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 🗃️

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Tracy Slater @tracyslater.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

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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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...

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Tracy Slater @tracyslater.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

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.

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Tracy Slater @tracyslater.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

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 🗃️

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Together in Manzanar – Join a Free, Virtual Author Talk by Tracy Slater on Tuesday, December 9 @ 7:30pm

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Kam W. Teo 🍁 @kamwt.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

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!

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Kam W. Teo 🍁 @kamwt.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

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

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Kam W. Teo 🍁 @kamwt.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

military. Most were interned in the BC Interior located in valleys with dirt roads guarded by the RCMP. In such isolated places and the color of their skin, Japanese Canadians could not escape. Further, there were no deaths directly linked to internment in Canada, with gun shots only taking place

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Kam W. Teo 🍁 @kamwt.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

This is where I make my compare and contrast between my knowledge of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War, and this book. With the exception of Angler in northwestern Ontario, the majority of Japanese Canadians that were interned were NOT behind barbed wire fences and guarded by the

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Tracy Slater @tracyslater.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Fun to appear on the Brainvwaves Video Anthology to talk about teachers who make a difference (www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsUO...) & the book TOGETHER IN MANZANAR (www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_00...). Shoutout to teachers everywhere (the true superheroes, along with librarians and archivists!). #booksky 🗃️

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Tracy Slater @tracyslater.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Huge thanks to @jwaonline.bsky.social for including Together in Manzanar on this list💙💜 jwa.org/programs/boo...? #booksky 🗃️ #writingcommunity

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Jewish Women's Archive @jwaonline.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

JWA's Winter 2025 Book List has arrived 🥳 Explore titles that illuminate Judeo-Iraqi Arabic, reveal the challenges of pop icon Carole King, explore an exchange of letters between Holocaust survivors, examine antisemitism in the US, and more: buff.ly/wzdT2CT

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Tracy Slater @tracyslater.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Huge thanks to @jwaonline.bsky.social for including Together in Manzanar on this list💙💜 jwa.org/programs/boo...? #booksky 🗃️ #writingcommunity

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Tracy Slater @tracyslater.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

One of my favorite podcasts turns...500!! Way to go, @brendanomeara.bsky.social. Listen in @ brendanomeara.com/episode-500-... #writingcommunity 📚💙

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Tracy Slater @tracyslater.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

For more about Manzanar, see @denshoproject.bsky.social's encyclopedia.densho.org/Manzanar/

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Tracy Slater @tracyslater.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Many thanks to Boston University for making available the video of my talk, about the book Together in Manzanar & mixed families in US concentration camps, for CGS, the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies, & the Asia Center @ Pardee School of Global Studies 🗃️ 📚💙 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpkx...

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10/29/25 Author Talk with Tracy Slater

YouTube video by Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies

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Tracy Slater @tracyslater.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

For more about Manzanar, see @denshoproject.bsky.social's encyclopedia.densho.org/Manzanar/

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10/29/25 Author Talk with Tracy Slater

YouTube video by Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies

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Tracy Slater @tracyslater.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

From @jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social's Paper Brigade Journal, Volume 9, "Dangerous Euphemisms," on the euphemisms that have shaped and distorted the memory of America’s WWII, homeland concentration camps. Read more & order the full volume www.jewishbookcouncil.org/.../paper-br... 🗃️

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Tracy Slater @tracyslater.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

"Since the end of World War II, Manzanar and the other sites incarcerating Japanese Americans have been almost uniformly referred to as 'internment camps.' In the early 1940s, however, they were widely called concentration camps--a far more accurate description"

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Tracy Slater @tracyslater.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

I wrote about this topic awhile ago for @literaryhub.bsky.social in light of historical parallels (lithub.com/how-trumps-a...), and now the always-wise @andreapitzer.bsky.social has gone further, broadening the contemporary relevance of this scapegoating & contextualizing the issue even further 💜

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How Trump’s Anti-Trans Policies Mirror the WWII Persecution of Japanese Americans

Since the current administration began rolling out its draconian immigration policies, people have frequently cited the WWII Exclusion and Incarceration of Japanese Americans as a historical preced…

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Tracy Slater @tracyslater.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Podcast swag💜. Thanks to Kate Carpenter of @draftingthepast.bsky.social for sending such fun swag after I got the great luck of being on her show. And for narrative history writers interested in pitching her, she just posted new guidelines & advice @ draftingthepast.com/blog/how-to-... 📚💙 🗃️

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Tracy Slater @tracyslater.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Narrative history writers: Updated advice on pitching to one of the best podcasts around! From @katecarp.bsky.social at @draftingthepast.bsky.social: 📚💙 🗃️ #writingcommunity draftingthepast.com/blog/how-to-...?

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How to Pitch Drafting the Past – Drafting the Past

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Tracy Slater @tracyslater.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Powerful & incredibly important new post by @andreapitzer.bsky.social . "...We can do better than a politics—and a world—based on cruelty and exclusion." degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/stop-trans...?

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Stop trans scapegoating

The only more powerful narrative tool than a villain is a hero.

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Tracy Slater @tracyslater.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Audiobook version launches today! If you can’t make it to our Toronto event this week (or even if you can), you can get a free copy of the audio version w/a trial subscription @ sites like Audible, B&N, etc, linked from main @tantoraudio.bsky.social site @ rbmediaglobal.com/audiobook/97.... 📚💙 🗃️

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Tracy Slater @tracyslater.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Last-minute reminder for the #Toronto #book launch of Together in Manzanar: The True Story of a Japanese Jewish Family in an American Concentration Camp. A few spots remaining! 7-9pm, 750 Spadina Avenue. & don't forget: There will be kosher sushi... Registration @ app.amilia.com/store/en/mil... 📚💙 🗃️

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