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- How the JDC aided Jewish Refugees in Iran
- Upcoming talk at Yale
- Messages from readers
- Review in the Methodist Recorder
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- The Guardian newspaper reviews ‘Tehran Children’
- Author Talks: November 2019
- Museum of Jewish Heritage, Nov. 13
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- History of WWII Podcast
- Tehran Children in New York Times Book Review
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October 2019, W.W. Norton
TEHRAN CHILDREN
A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey
Tehran Children is a gripping account of Holocaust survival unlike any other. Blending the genres of memoir, history, and travelogue, Mikhal Dekel traces… her father’s wartime footsteps across thousands of miles, from Poland, to Soviet Uzbekistan, Tehran and Palestine.”
—Tara Zahra, author of Great Departure: Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and The Making of the Free World
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Mikhal Dekel is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the City College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Tehran Children is her third book.