Virtual Discussion In the East: The Neglected History of Holocaust Refugees in Soviet Gulags, Central Asia, and the Middle East Wednesday, 11 May 2022 1:00 pm EST A Microsoft Teams Webinar Register on the United Nations site Join us for a conversation with two eminent scholars about Mikhal Dekel’s book, “In the East: How My …
A brief conversation with the excellent book blog Literary Hub about some of the books that resonate with In the East, along with a shout-out to favorite rereads and other works. https://lithub.com/mikhal-dekel-on-anna-karenina-dubliners-and-a-room-of-ones-own/
It is startling to discover in a book written by a stranger answers you have always been seeking, even unconsciously, to the most fundamental personal questions. When I published Tehran Children, I didn’t know it would end up answering lots of questions for lots of strangers. Many of them contacted me, including Ruth Franklin, and …
Read more “Tehran Children reviewed in the The New York Review of Books!”
Thoughtful, smart review of the German edition of Tehran Children in the Süddeutsche Zeitung https://www.sueddeutsche.de/…/ns-zeit-juedische-odyssee
A television segment on the German edition (Die Kinder Von Teheran) with RBB Fernsehen. Many thanks to Martina Hiller von Gaertringen for this lovely rendering of a complex story! https://www.rbb-online.de/…/20210911_1720/teheran.html
The paperback edition of Tehran Children will be published under a new title: In the East: How My Father and a Quarter Million Polish Jews Survived the Holocaust You can preorder it here available December 7th, 2021
“To Whom Does History Belong?” Katz Professorship Inaugural Lecture by Mikhal Dekel Tuesday, November 2, 2021 4:00 pm The City College of New York, 160 Convent Ave, New York, NY 10031, USA
The Long Path of Escape “This is a history book as it should be, with lots of footnotes and references to sources. But Mikhal Dekel has managed to turn it into a captivating book with its very own prose language, by no means a novel, and on top of that a travel book whose locations …
Read more “Review of the German translation in TAZ (Tageszeitung)”
I wrote an article about how my family history intersects with the current situation in Poland. It appeared in Polish in the daily newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza on June 9th. You can download the article in Polish here Below is the opening of the English text: My Jewish Family Lived in a Small Town in Poland …
I am thrilled to be appointed as the 2021-22 Katz Professor… https://www1.cuny.edu/mu/forum/2021/05/17/acclaimed-author-and-scholar-mikhal-dekel-is-new-ccny-stuart-katz-professor/