I didn't set out to write a collection of stories about being Jewish—it basically just happened. I think that's because all four of my grandparents were Ashkenazi Jews from the Pale of Settlement in the Russian Empire who immigrated to the US in the early twentieth century when they were teenagers. So I grew up in a Jewish family, with Yiddish speaking relatives, and also with the knowledge that before I was born, some of my relatives perished in the Holocaust. So while writing about Jews was never an agenda item for me, being a Jew is such an essential part of my identity that among the many themes I address in my writing, it's only natural that this one would inspire me occasionally. And recently a lot of new information about the history of my ancestors has come my way and that led me to some new insights into my own background and that of my own people.
Tzipa: The story of how I got my Hebrew name and what it means to me now.
Rags to Riches: Finding a doll created by a Jewish cartoonist
A Baby Grand and a Room Full of Books: What a Jewish father and his non-Jewish son-in-law have in common
Jewish Questions: Digging into Jewish history after visiting a Jewish Cemetery in Copenhagen and the Jewish Museums in Copenhagen and Seville, Spain.
One of Job's Daughters: How some non-Jewish men see Jewish women
Letter Home: Real letter written by my father to his parents during World War II about a Jewish holiday he spent in North Africa
Displaced People: Experience of a Jewish American soldier after World War II in occupied Germany
Now That I'm No Longer American: A satire (I have to say this because some people thought it was a true story) about the implications of a Trump administration ruling that "Judiasm" is a nationality
Laws of Time Travel: What happens when someone finds out there is a surprise in their family history
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