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  • Children of the Holocaust

    Conversations with Sons and Daughters of Survivors

    by Helen Epstein ...
    "I set out to find a group of people who, like me, were possessed by a history they had never lived."The daughter of Holocaust survivors, Helen Epstein traveled from America to Europe to Israel, searching for one vital thin in common: their parent's persecution by the Nazis. She found:• Gabriela Korda, who was raised by her parents as a German Protestant in South America;• Albert Singerman, who ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Franci's War

    A Woman's Story of Survival

    by Franci Rabinek Epstein, Helen Epstein ...
    The engrossing memoir of a spirited and glamorous young fashion designer who survived World War ll, with an afterword by her daughter, Helen Epstein.In the summer of 1942, twenty-two year-old Franci Rabinek--designated a Jew by the Nazi racial laws--arrived at Terezin, a concentration camp and ghetto forty miles north of her home in Prague. It would be the beginning of her three-year journey from ... Read more

    Was $5.99 USD Now $4.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Long Half-Lives of Love and Trauma

    by Helen Epstein ...
    This intrepid memoir tracks sexual harassment and sexual abuse in the life of a veteran American journalist. It also describes the long and ultimately successful psychotherapy the author undertook to heal. The Long Half-Lives of Love and Trauma “invents its own genre,” wrote Sherry Turkle. “The author suspects sexual abuse in her childhood and investigates with the toolkits of an historian and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Where She Came From: A Daughter's Search For Her Mother's History

    by Helen Epstein ...
    Where She Came From: A Daughter's Search for Her Mother's History by Helen Epstein (106,000 words)A sequel to the groundbreaking Children of the Holocaust, Where She Came From is a daughter’s memoir of her mother’s family. Drawing on her journalistic training, Helen Epstein demonstrates how documentary research can unearth family history and bridge the historical chasm of the Shoah. This book is ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Fighting for Life

    by S. Josephine Baker ...
    New York’s Lower East Side was said to be the most densely populated square mile on earth in the 1890s. Health inspectors called the neighborhood “the suicide ward.” Diarrhea epidemics raged each summer, killing thousands of children. Sweatshop babies with smallpox and typhus dozed in garment heaps destined for fashionable shops. Desperate mothers paced the streets to soothe their feverish ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Invisible Cure

    Why We Are Losing the Fight Against AIDS in Africa

    by Helen Epstein ...
    New York Times Notable Book: "Enlightening and troubling," a scientist searching for an AIDS vaccine in Uganda explores Africa's AIDS epidemic ( The New York Times ).Helen Epstein left her job in the US in 1993 to move to Uganda, where she began work on a test vaccine for HIV. Once there, she met patients, doctors, politicians, and aid workers, and began exploring the problem of AIDS in Africa ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $2.99 USD

  • Memoir: How I Read, Write and Use It

    by Helen Epstein ...
    Memoir: How I Read, Write and Use It by Helen Epstein (3,400 words)This is an essay for students of memoir. Making meaning in writing memoir is similar to creating narrative in psychotherapy. What differentiates memoir from that work is the public nature of the literary product, its aim to document fact, elucidate memory, separate it from fantasy as far as possible and render lived rather than ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • A Living Will

    by Helen Epstein ...
    A Living Will by Helen Epstein (8,800 words)A personal account of a mother’s sudden and unexpected hospitalization, and how her adult children negotiated end-of-life decisions.This essay appeared as a New York Magazine cover story on November 27, 1989 as "A Death in the Family 1989." ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Meyer Schapiro: Portrait of an Art Historian

    by Helen Epstein ...
    Meyer Schapiro: Portrait of an Art Historian by Helen Epstein (19,700 words)This is the only profile available of art historian Meyer Schapiro (1904-1996). A polymath, revered for his extraordinary scholarship and teaching, he championed medieval studies, modern masters like Matisse and Picasso and artists of his own time. His lectures at Columbia and the New School attracted overflow crowds of ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Joe Papp: An American Life

    by Helen Epstein ...
    Joe Papp: An American Life by Helen Epstein (228,000 words, 116 photographs and theater posters by Paul Davis)Joseph Papp (1921-1991), theater producer, champion of human rights and of the First Amendment, founder of the New York Shakespeare Festival and Public Theater, changed the American cultural landscape.Born Yussel Papirofsky in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, he discovered Shakespeare in public ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Getting Through It: My Year of Cancer during Covid

    by Helen Epstein ...
    Just after Covid arrived in North America in spring 2020, journalist Helen Epstein was diagnosed with endometrial cancer — one of a predicted 66,570 new cases of cancer of the uterine body in the United States in 2021. About 600,000 American women have had it.A candid and eye-opening account of a medical steeplechase of surgery, chemo and radiation therapy, Getting Through It brings together ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Music Talks: the lives of classical musicians

    by Helen Epstein ...
    Music Talks: the lives of classical musicians by Helen Epstein (92,000 words)A collection of profiles of some of the world's most fascinating musicians, including the late Leonard Bernstein, Vladimir Horowitz, and Dorothy DeLay and the very lively James Galway and Yo-Yo Ma. Passed from hand to hand and read by music students as well as music lovers everywhere, Music Talks makes a wonderful gift ... Read more

    $9.99 USD