A few years ago, I wrote a short story that takes place in 19th century…
Category: Poland
From Wladyslaw Szpilman’s The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man’s Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45: …
This blog post, originally published December 26, 2018, is being reposted in memory of Professor…
I have written in an earlier post about how enjoying indigenous cuisine is one of…
The Warsaw Jewish Cemetery on Okopowa Street contains over 250,000 graves that are marked. The…
Eleven U.S. citizens have won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Bob Dylan won it most…
Wednesday, October 24, 2018 (continued): This is the second installment describing our visit to the…
It is the late 60s or early 70s perhaps; I can’t remember exactly. I am…
Does knowing how something ends, a book, a movie, a life, for instance, affect our…
“Galil” is a transliteration from the Hebrew of a word commonly used to refer to…
Gershon Ben-Avraham 