New articles
“A Jewish Frankenstein: new film paints Norman Finkelstein as a belated victim of the Warsaw Ghetto.” Forward, April 13, 2010.
“Drawing on Hitler’s Book: New exhibition in San Francisco takes Mein Kampf as starting point for Jewish struggle.” Forward, February 26, 2010.
Books
Missing a Beat: The Rants and Regrets of Seymour Krim (Syracuse University Press, 2010). Editor. Missing a Beat is the first book to view Krim as a Jewish American writer, not primarily a Beat writer.
Last Century of a Sephardic Community: The Jews of Monastir, 1839-1943 (FASSAC, 2003), is an original history based on archives in Europe, North America, and Israel. The book tells the story of the Spanish-speaking Sephardim of Monastir (today’s Bitola, Macedonia). Excerpts have appeared in scholarly journals.The Forward called it “an important addition to the study of Sephardic Jews.” See more reviews.
Research articles
“Cruelty of the Soup Bone: The Chicago Eccentric Behind Saul Bellow’s ‘A Sermon by Doctor Pep.’” ANQ Journal (Spring 2009). Peer reviewed.
“Seymour Krim.” In Encyclopedia of Jewish-American Literature, Gloria L. Cronin and Alan Berger, eds. (Facts on File, 2009)
“Saul Bellow’s Favorite Thought on Herzog? The Evidence of An Unpublished Bellow Letter.” Notes on Contemporary Literature 38.4 (September 2008)
“A Recognizable Jewish Type: Saul Bellow’s Dr. Tamkin and Valentine Gersbach as Jewish Social History.” Modern Judaism. Fall 2007. Peer reviewed.
“My Fair Sadie: Allan Sherman and a Paradox of American Jewish Culture.” American Jewish History (March 2007). Peer reviewed.
“Liner Notes.” For six-CD boxed set of Allan Sherman’s songs, My Son, The Box (Rhino Records, 2005).
“Body Language: Spoken vs. Silent Communication in Herzog.” Saul Bellow Journal 20:2 (Fall, 2004). Peer reviewed.
“Disaster and Change in an Ottoman Sephardic Community: Moses Montefiore and the Monastir Fire of 1863.” Journal of Jewish Studies (Spring 2004). Peer reviewed.
“How the West Won: The Arrival of the Alliance Israélite Universelle to the Community of Monastir.” The Sephardi Report (Spring 2004).
“Tower of Sephardic Faces.” US Holocaust Museum Website. Photographic exhibit on the Monastir Jews with text from Last Century of a Sephardic Community. Holocaust Museum.
“Foreword.” Bitola (Monastir) Holocaust Memorial Book (New York: National Yiddish Book Center, 2004).
“Early Photographs of Albania and Macedonia by Josef Székely.” History of Photography (Summer 2003).
“Monastir: Oasis of Civilization, 1839-63.” Turkish Studies Association Bulletin (Fall 2000). Peer reviewed.
“The Suffering Joker in Jewish Fiction.” Midstream (Aug/Sept 1984).
Selected Journalism
“It’s a Small World: Albert Kahn’s 100-year-old photography project brought humanity into focus.” Nextbook. January 8, 2009. Read article
“Soldier of Misfortune: Did Hyman Minsky’s Jewish Upbringing help him predict the financial crisis?” Nextbook. September 16, 2008.
“Jason Bourne is Jewish: Idea for a Sequel.” Zeek. September 15, 2008.
“Allan Sherman.” In Revolutions in Sound: Warner Bros. Records, the first fifty years, by Warren Zanes (San Francisco, 2008)
“Missing A Beat: The Overlooked Jewish Writings of Seymour Krim.”Zeek: A Jewish Journal of Thought and Culture. (September 2007) Read article.
“.Howl.” (A parody of Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” that takes on Silicon Valley.) ZYZZYVA(Fall, 2005). “I saw the best jobs of my generation destroyed by madness…”
“Allan Sherman: A Different Kind of Jewish Music.” Heritage (Fall 2004).
“Story of a Melanoma Patient.” MD Anderson Network Newsletter (Fall 2003).
“Jobless Find They Have a Job: Staying Busy.” Contra Costa Times, April 23, 1995.
“United Nations Greeters Extend Welcoming Hand to Diplomats’ Spouses.” Los Angeles Times, July 4, 1993.
“The Arms and the Man.” Daily News, June 10, 1993.
“Library Feels World Pulse.” New York Newsday, March 19, 1993.
“Meet’s Best Thing on Menu,” Daily News, Dec. 27, 1992.
“New Yorkers Buy Pieces of Their Rock.” Los Angeles Times, Dec. 10, 1992.
