Members of the Scribe

In my first novel, I wrote from the point of view of a Nazi. In my new novel, The Wanting , ...

Zi kholmt – she dreams.In Irena Klepfisz’s remarkable poem, “Etlekhe verter oyf mame-loshn / A few words in the mother tongue,” the speaker ...

The three of us waited expectantly and somewhat nervously in the seminar room, wondering why we had been summoned by ...

When I first began studying Yiddish, I felt like I was remembering something I already knew.It was a lovely sensation, this ...

A few weeks ago, the Los Angeles Times ran an article about the death of Eddie Goldstein, “the last Jewish man of ...

Sometime back in my childhood, I got the idea that it was “nicer” to say “I’m Jewish” than “I’m a ...

Although I live in California, I don’t share the New Age belief that there are no coincidences. I think many ...

I thought I had entered completely into the world of my novel: Boyle Heights in the 1920s and 30s, when ...

I always begin like this, with Irv, my grandfather, and then I describe him, An angel on Earth, never another like him. ...

One of the things that I find most compelling about Judaism is the idea of b’shert. It fills me with joy ...