Holocaust
April 21, 2009
- I've started writing for Tina Brown's ground-breaking news website The Daily Beast. The first of my pieces runs today. Here's the headline:ISRAEL'S PRIVATE SHAMEToday is Holocaust Remembrance Day, and the worst place to be a survivor might be Israel.To read the article, click here.
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February 7, 2009
- Lou helped me create the slide show for next week's panel in Chicago. He's tech-savvy, this blessed husband of mine. This morning we put together the Power Point slides for the poetry presentation at AWP. Technology is not my friend, and I cried while we sat composing the slides of Horb, Rexingen, of Hedwig Schwarz, the lone survivor from my family; Theresienstadt, and Riga. I cried ...
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January 5, 2009
- When I studied in the USA, I was constantly told that "never again" was the moral to live by. Holocaust studies, memorials, monuments, documentaries, novels, memoirs dominated and still dominate the Western marketplace and psyche. In that process what is lost is the genocide determinedly practised over 60 years by survivors of the Holocaust. Like children of abusers and alcoholics, the ...
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November 8, 2008
- On the eve of the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, come revelations that blueprints were found, from 1941, in a Berlin flat that reveal the plan to expand the concentration camp at Auschwitz, and annihilate 11 million European Jews. You'll recall that Kristallnacht, November 9-10, 1938 was the night when nearly 100 Jews were slaughtered by Nazis, and close to 30,000 ...
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August 23, 2008
- I wanted to share a very upsetting experience I had submitting a query letter to River's Bend Press in MN. I sent them a query about a book that I have written exploring a - yet to be reported aspect - of the Holocaust. I received my letter back with 'LOL' written in black bold marker across the page. I wanted to call the publisher to ask them about the behavior of their editor and when I ...
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April 11, 2008
- At the urging of friends, I finally decided to get off my butt and publish the novel I had written for my MA in Jewish Studies. It is already up on Kindle (http://www.amazon.com/War-on-the-Margins/dp/B00137LZ4O/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=digital-text&qid=1207923139&sr=1-1), and I am in the shaky position of publishing with BookSurge at a time when it is receiving more criticism than (fill ...
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February 28, 2008
