Holocaust

Central Park, in the middle of the city of New York, is 843 acres. The Warsaw Ghetto, in the middle ...

One September afternoon I took the train from Berlin to Warsaw, as my characters had done. I wanted to see ...

As a child, the great Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas noticed that dogs appear in Torah at a crucial moment. On ...

The more I read and learn about what has been happening in Russia, the more I am afraid for its ...

Once a month at our family Shabbat service we ask families to submit questions in advance in what, in lieu ...

I became Bar Mitzvah on April 20th, 2002, the 130th anniversary of Hitler’s birth. My dad’s side of the family ...

I was born in Baltimore in 1954, nine years after the Shoah, one of signature events of the 20th—or any—century. That ...

 November 9, 2013, marks the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht, “The Night of Broken Glass.” It is the night many point ...

Whenever I tell anyone that mother was in a German labor camp during World War II, they assume she was ...

One of the hardest things to get used to in writing a novel is cutting material to speed up the ...

For the past eight summers, I’ve taught creative writing at the Paris American Academy, a small school in a neighborhood ...

The 70th anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising has created renewed interest in the actions of Polish gentiles who assisted ...