Author of "We Are Here: Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust" (University of Nebraska Press, 2012), winner of the 2013 National Book Prize from Grub Street, the 2013 Towson Prize for Literature, the 2012 Silver Medal for History awarded by the ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Awards, and the 2013 Prakhin International Literary Foundation Award.

I am a frequent speaker about Jewish and Lithuanian issues. I'm a Yiddish translator.

I'm a former columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News and the author of two books for working women. My articles have appeared in Hadassah, The Jewish Daily Forward, the Huffington Post, Haaretz, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Lilith, Bridges, Utne Reader, Polin, and Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies.

"We Are Here: Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust" (U. of Nebraska Press, 2012); Yiddish translations in "Beautiful as the Moon, Radiant as the Stars (Warner Books, 2003); play "Beautiful Hills of Brooklyn," adapted into a film of the same name, 2008.