Members of the Scribe

“It is obvious that the war which Hitler and his accomplices waged was a war not only against Jewish men, ...

Gluckel of Hameln was an intrepid businesswoman, a mother of twelve children, a passionate wife, and a memoirist. She died ...

“Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.” -Alice Stone Blackwell   The Internet is a tricky beast. ...

“I’ve dictated a sharp article against the Jews,” Joseph Goebbels boasted in a journal entry in 1933. “At its mere ...

Kristallnacht, the first incident of state-sponsored mass violence against the Jews of Nazi Germany, marks a turning point in history. Hitler ...

Before I’m labeled a raging feminist for mentioning that gunmen have been men, I’m telling you I love men but ...

At the age of 17, as a refugee from Nazi Germany living illegally in Paris, Herschel Grynszpan saw the world ...

My new book,  The Short, Strange Life of Herschel Grynszpan: A Boy Avenger, a Nazi Diplomat and a Murder in ...

Remember the bedtime story about the sly wolf propped up in Red Riding Hood’s grandmother’s bed? Little boys must have ...

Last month, shortly before the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, my wife, Ann, and I took a tour of Terezín, the fortress ...