Dry Timber at Hot Springs County Library
Holocaust Workshop “Dry Timber: Anti-Judaism and Antisemitism before 1933”
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Judaism
Antisemitism and the Holocaust- Part 2
Historian Doris Bergen’s burning house metaphor for the Holocaust is the foundation of this course exploring the preconditions leading to the Holocaust.
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Antisemitism and the Holocaust-Part 1
Historian Doris Bergen’s burning house metaphor for the Holocaust is the foundation of this course exploring the preconditions leading to the Holocaust.
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Half a bottle of vodka & half a loaf of bread
This is a poem pieced together from notes and lines in a notebook I used while serving as the teaching assistant for the Holocaust course offered at the University of
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Family Friday: Pandemic Passover
Chag Sameach! “Why is this night different from all other nights?” I asked but the answer seemed obvious when I looked up at my cellphone holding my sister, her husband,
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The Garden
After I finished writing this story, I sat back and realized with some amount of awe that it featured the first Jewish characters I had ever written. I have shared
Family Friday: To Aunt Marcia
Four years ago today was my Aunt Marcia’s funeral. I stood crying with my family as we laid her next to her parents. On June 29, 1949, Marcia came into
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For the Trees
In the spirit of the recent holiday (Tu B’Shvat), my personal writing post today honors the trees. I wrote most of these poems nestled in the Blueridge Mountains and surrounded