The following is an excerpt from my upcoming book, The World Has Caught Fire: Life and Death in Holocaust-Era Poland (Amsterdam Publishers, September 2026). It details how Dora Bursztajn and her family experienced Purim 1942. They lived in Brzeziny, a small city in central Poland that was invaded by the Nazis in September of 1939. The town's Jews were forced into a walled-off area -- the ghetto -- about two years before this story takes place. It had been two years of fear,

Neukölln, Berlin. September 1944. It was, by most accounts, a fairly typical day for the Jewish women enslaved at the Krupp factory. Up...

I recently got the opportunity to review Ben Kweller's very Jewish new album, "Cover the Mirrors" for Kveller magazine. AM I A MUSIC...

Click HERE to read my latest review for the Jewish Book Council. It is an excellent new translation of the post-war journals of Levi...

Earlier in the year I got to interview author Thomas R. Weaver for BookLife, the indie publishing arm of Publishers Weekly. Click HERE ...

I'm really excited to be talking to author Alina Adams this week, whose latest novel, Go On Pretending , comes out this May! Alina's path...

I'm so proud of this piece I did for the Winter 2025 issue of Lilith Magazine. Like so many others, I have so much anger and panic over...

Back again, folks! This week, we are diving into the literary world of S. M. Levine, an indie writer whose debut novel, The Trial Run ,...

I recently got to review Do Not Cry When I Die for the Jewish Book Council. In this memoir, Holocaust survivor Renee Salt tells her story...

Welcome back to another edition of Writer’s Corner Wednesday! This week, I’m chatting with Barbara Josselsohn, best-selling author of...