This month, the JDC published a review of Tehran Children on their Archives blog, focusing on the role that the JDC played in the lives of refugees like my father in the USSR, Iran, India and Palestine. The JDC, formally … Continued
Book event Wed. Feb. 12: Tehran Children: Poles & Jews in the USSR & the Middle East, 1939-1947 Wednesday, February 12, 2020 – 5:30pm Whitney Humanities Center 208 53 Wall Street New Haven, CT 06511 https://ypsa.yale.edu/event/tehran-children-poles-jews-ussr-middle-east-1939-1947
Everyday now I get versions of this email. How cool is it for an academic to be thanked for her research 🙏. Prof. Dekel, I want to thank you for this book… My grandfather was one of the Tehran … Continued
The Methodist Recorder is an independent weekly newspaper published in the U.K. Their review of Tehran Children came out last week. This book is an important part of Holocaust history. A tragic story, full of sadness and suffering yet also … Continued
This week, I spoke with BBC World Service correspondent Celia Hatton about Tehran Children, and we discussed the realities of life as a child refugee historically and today. Here is that segment of the show: In my book I … Continued
This full-page review appeared in The Guardian’s New Review section: What makes Dekel’s study so valuable is not just its assiduous detailing of one family’s fate during the second world war, but how it also makes us reflect on … Continued
Wednesday, November 27, 2019 The Wiener Holocaust Library 29 Russell Square, Bloomsbury LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM 3:00 pm Thursday, November 28, 2019 Oxford University Clarendon Institute OXFORD, ENGLAND 6:00 pm See Events page for December & beyond
My last major event in NYC will be at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Battery Park. Join me Wednesday Nov. 13 at 7PM https://mjhnyc.org/events/tehran-children-with-author-mikhal-dekel/ Museum of Jewish Heritage 36 Battery Place New York, NY Wednesday Nov. 13th at … Continued
Eight decades ago, my father boarded a train in Soviet Union whose destination was Iran. He was a child caught in the cross-currents of global conflict, starving, and his ultimate survival depended on geopolitical alliances, fierce advocacy efforts–and, though it … Continued
In the middle of World War II, Tehran became a haven for both Jewish and Catholic Polish refugees who were welcomed as they arrived from Soviet Central Asia. BY MIKHAL DEKEL FOREIGN POLICY MAGAZINE, OCTOBER 19, 2019 In the summer … Continued