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/
Great review of the German edition Die Kinder von Teheran in this podcast: Stories of Family & Escape We know the iconic photos: German soldiers pulling the beard of an elderly Jewish man, a child with hands raised in the Warsaw ghetto, the survivors of the concentration camps after liberation. The Shoah is well …
Read more “Review of German Edition on Deutschlandfunk Kultur”
For all those still in partial lockdown in Germany and looking for something to read, Die Kinder Von Teheran is out! And it has an amazing new epilogue by the great Aleida Assmann! www.amazon.de/Die-Kinder-von-Teheran-Holocaust/dp/380624278X
The Times Observer is featuring Tehran Children and the upcoming December 8 event in their paper. (It’s even making their ‘Most Read’ section! 🙂 Read article Learn more about the event / register
A Virtual Event Co-presented with The Chautauqua Institution and The US Holocaust Museum: Register for this event https://www.ushmm.org/online-calendar/event/VETEHRCHILDPPG1220 December 8, 2020, 7:00 p.m.–8:30 p.m. EST Ticket: Free, Registration Required Location: Virtual Event
Die Kinder von Teheran will be published in March. Feeling grateful for Aleida Jan Assmann’s Afterword and dreaming of crossing the ocean…
I’ll be speaking ‘at’ Harvard Center for European Studies on November 6, 12:00pm – 1:15pm Note: The video of this event has been posted on the CES Harvard website: https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/recordings/tehran-children-on-the-trail-of-wwii-refugees-in-central-asia-and-the-middle-east
I would have been speaking about Migration and Identity at the Smithsonian this Monday. Now I get to do it on Zoom. Please join us! Monday, October 5, 2020 – 6:45 p.m. ET you can get tickets here: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/odyssey-of-tehran-children-holocaust-story-of-rescue-and-identity