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A Scandalous Theory of Defense and Herschel Grynszpan
At the age of 17, as a refugee from Nazi Germany living illegally in Paris, Herschel Grynszpan saw the world ...
Restoring Herschel Grynszpan to the Pages of History
My new book, The Short, Strange Life of Herschel Grynszpan: A Boy Avenger, a Nazi Diplomat and a Murder in ...
Machismo: How The Macho Male Identifies With Wildlife Animals
Remember the bedtime story about the sly wolf propped up in Red Riding Hood’s grandmother’s bed? Little boys must have ...
The Question of Jewish Resistance and Herschel Grynszpan
Last month, shortly before the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, my wife, Ann, and I took a tour of Terezín, the fortress ...
Cutting-Edge Work in the Jewish Community
In Relational Judaism , I report six case studies of organizations and individuals doing cutting-edge work in creating relational communities. Chabad is numero ...
Relational Judaism For the 21st Century
As I travel around the country visiting Jewish institutions of all kinds, my “worry” quotient is growing daily. Nearly everywhere ...
Statues and Golems
I was 28 before I first saw the Statue of Liberty in person. I’d been accepted to grad school in ...
Under the Influence of Golems
Here’s a confession: I haven’t read that many golem stories. Or at least, as many as someone who’s written a book called ...
On Writing a Novel in Two Cultures
Yesterday I wrote that my novel, The Golem and the Jinni , is “pretty darn Jewish.” In truth, that’s only ...
The Most Jewish Thing I Do
When I started looking through the extensive and awe-inspiring Visiting Scribe archives, one theme kept popping out at me: the perennial ...
Allison Amend’s JBC Network Lessons
In 2011, I was a finalist for the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. Thanks to this honor, I was invited ...
Almost Jewish
So why would a nice Jewish girl not write nice Jewish fiction? My last book, Stations West , was about ...