Members of the Scribe
The Path of a Wandering Jew
I never intended to write novels.I also never intended to write for The New York Times. When I was 17, I ...
Writing About The Holocaust
It was a day like any other. I was absorbed in the details of my life, answering an overflowing stack ...
Holocaust Education: The Missing Piece
In my many years of schooling across three continents, I’ve attended many Holocaust classes. Yet, during each lesson and every ...
6 Things I Learned Writing About Weddings For The New York Times
My first novel, The Wedding Beat , was loosely based on my experience as a single Jewish guy writing the ...
A Jew in a Plexiglas Box
A Jew on display in a Plexiglas box, in Germany of all places, stands as a flagrant provocation. But there ...
What’s a Nazi?
“What’s a Nazis?” It was a question I had never heard before or even considered possible but there the man ...
The Champagne Spy
For five long years Wolfgang Lotz, a horse breeder and bon vivant, lived the high life of an affluent former ...
Non-Standardized Testing
I subjected you to quite a bit of fire and brimstone the other day, so let’s end the week on a ...
Feeding Other Writers, and Myself
A few days ago my novel, Fields of Exile , was published in the USA, and this month marks exactly ...
Understanding the Villains; or, Stranger than Fiction
Donna Tartt, the author of this year’s Pulitzer Prize winner The Goldfinch , was once told by Ken Kesey, the ...
Leah Goldberg, Me, and the Search for a Title for my New Book
There’s a Jewish story you may know that includes the refrain: “You never know.” In one section of it, a ...
It’s the First Week of June. Do You Know Where Your Family History Is?
I’ve daydreamt for more than a decade about what a day like tomorrow—publication date for my debut novel A Replacement Life—might ...