Book Review
PW Review of my Memoir
(My book’s cover, back and front) *** I am most pleased to note that the venerable PUBLISHERS WEEKLY has published a favorable review of my memoir SUMMONS TO BERLIN. PW relates some details of my Berlin restitution quest, then calls the book “a unique and memorable account of untangling inherited trauma.” I did endeavor to…
Read MoreURSULA DUBA’S “GERMANY”
Ursula Duba was born in Cologne, Germany in 1938. Nonetheless, she did not learn of the Holocaust until after she turned 19. Several years thereafter, she moved to a Brooklyn neighborhood, then home to many Holocaust survivors. Keenly intelligent and profoundly empathetic, Ursula decided to turn her moral outrage over the Nazi era and its…
Read MoreBOOK REVIEW: THE BELIEVER
For my interview with Ralph Blumenthal about The Believer, go here. *** Ralph Blumenthal’s The Believer – a lively read – draws a poignant profile of the highly accomplished if controversial Harvard psychiatrist Dr. John E. Mack. Mack had already published very well-regarded books in the field of psychiatry by the time he was made Head of…
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