Members of the Scribe
Montefiore’s Ramsgate
Sunday June 17th will be Montefiore day in Ramsgate, the faded seaside resort where Sir Moses and his wife Judith lived ...
In Moses Montefiore’s Footsteps
For the past ten years I’ve been travelling the world in Moses Montefiore’s footsteps. This was a man who spent ...
Historians, Biographers
Dr. Abigail Green’s new book, Moses Montefiore: Jewish Liberator, Imperial Hero, is now available.What makes a good biography? I thought ...
Blazing Saddles It Wasn’t
When a modern audience thinks of American Indians and American Jews, the image that comes to mind is likely to be ...
A Jewish Magician at the Egyptian Theatre
When you do anything creative – from writing stories to hooking rugs – people are likely to ask you where ...
The Historical Figures in Gerald Kolpan’s Magic Words
Row 1: Adelaide Herrmann, magician and wife of Alexander Herrmann | Alexander Herrmann, the great magician and Julius’ cousin | ...
The Return of Eli Gershonson
Gerald Kolpan‘s newest book, Magic Words: The Tale of a Jewish Boy-Interpreter, the World’s Most Estimable Magician, a Murderous Harlot, ...
Acknowledging the Tenement Museum
These days, when people write a book, they invariably have an acknowledgments page, where they thank a few people or–like ...
Do My Characters Need to be Jewish?
Should I show my husband my work? My sister? My mother? Students sometimes ask me this. Go ahead, I say. ...
Seeking Fact, Finding the Unknowable
Debra Spark is the author of The Pretty Girl, a collection of stories about art and deception.In literature, as in ...