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The Toolkit podcast: Reviving Literary Gems as Ebooks – Digital Publishing with Patrick Mehr of Plunkett Lake Press (August 2024)

Hadassah Magazine: Silver Linings and Humor in Helen Epstein’s Cancer Memoir (September 2022) (about Getting Through It)

Cancer Today: Stay Engaged in Life (September 20, 2022) (about Getting Through It)

AARP's The Ethel: How My Long-Ago High School Classmates Helped Me Through Cancer (August 29, 2022) (about Getting Through It)

Jewish Journal: Recounting a Year of Cancer in a New Book (July 22, 2022) (about Getting Through It)

Cancer.net: 10 Things I Wish I Knew When I Was First Diagnosed With Cancer (July 19, 2022) (about Getting Through It)

Washington Post: Author who dealt with cancer during covid offers some advice (June 12, 2022) (about Getting Through It)

babyboomers.com: Cancer & Friendship by Helen Epstein (May 10, 2022) (about Getting Through It)

Tablet Magazine: Theodor Herzl Is Alive and Well and Living in New York (Los Angeles, Paris, and London, too) (June 3, 2021) (about Herzl by Amos Elon)

Public Seminar: The New School’s Leading Man — How Alvin Johnson reimagined higher education (June 16, 2020)

Wiki.ezvid.com, The World's Video Wiki: Plunkett Lake Press among Publishers That Offer Compelling Memoirs (April 9, 2020)

Schenectady Daily Gazette: Wise a wealth of information on Edison, Westinghouse (March 12, 2020)

WBUR: What The 1930s Tell Us About Politics Today [interview of Financial Times columnist Gideon Rachman about Sebastian Haffner's Defying Hitler] (July 30, 2019)

Financial Times: Opinion piece about Sebastian Haffner’s memoir, Defying Hitler (July 22, 2019)

Wall Street Journal: Five Best: Helen Fry on Books About Clandestine Agents in World War II (March 1, 2019); #1 is Surrender on Demand by Varian Fry

Berkshire Eagle: Book Review: Memoir chronicles healing from childhood sexual abuse (September 28, 2018)

Tablet Magazine: The Half-Life of Sexual Abuse in a Holocaust-Survivor Family — Helen Epstein completes her clear-eyed, fearless, taboo-breaking autobiographical trilogy (June 27, 2018)

Jewish Boston: Summer Reading Roundup, Part One: Nonfiction [features “The Long Half-Lives of Love and Trauma: A Memoir” by Helen Epstein] (June 11, 2018)

Lexington Minuteman: Lexington’s tranquility inspires a memoir fit for the #MeToo movement (March 28, 2018)

Boston Globe: Lexington author traces trauma’s long reach (February 14, 2018)

WBUR Cognoscenti: #MeToo Is Clumsy, Crucial And Long Overdue, by Helen Epstein (January 22, 2018)

Read Her Like An Open Book: THE LONG HALF-LIVES OF LOVE AND TRAUMA a timely memoir of abuse and psychotherapy (January 14, 2018)

West Side Rag: Book Review: Remembering Local Landmarks and Family Pain In ‘The Long Half Lives of Love and Trauma’ (January 7, 2018)

Lilith Magazine: Helen Epstein: #MeToo? (Winter 2017-2018)

Canadian Jewish News: Helen Epstein: Depicting Second-Generation Trauma (October 31, 2017)

Lilith Magazine: An e-biography by Patricia Rife is one in a series of biographies of Central European Jewish scientists who fled to the U.S. (Summer 2017)

New York Times: Paul Ornstein, 92, Psychoanalyst and Holocaust Survivor, Dies (January 31, 2017)

The Analyst’s Attitude, Theory and Technique: Book review by David S. Solomon of Looking Back: Memoir of a Psychoanalyst by Paul Ornstein and Helen Epstein (October 2016)

Boston Psychoanalytic Society & Institute (BPSI): Meet the Author: Paul Ornstein “Looking Back: Memoir of a Psychoanalyst” – VIDEO (February 19, 2016)

Boston Globe: From Budapest to Brookline, a psychoanalyst looks back (February 16, 2016)

Brookline TAB: Journey of love and grit (January 2, 2016)

Jewish Heritage Europe: Czech Republic: Tribute book to Jiří Fiedler published (July 24, 2015)

American Friends of Hebrew University (June 2015)

The Globe and Mail: The Holocaust’s long reach: Trauma is passed on to survivors’ children (April 3, 2015)

The Reading Life: review of Balzac by Stefan Zweig (March 3, 2015)

Arts Fuse: Found in Translation — Out in the ‘Burbs (February 21, 2015)

New Republic: The Science of Suffering (November 16, 2014)

New York Times: Eulogy for a Source (March 9, 2014) & Prague Daily Monitor: Respekt: Prague Jewish historian Fiedler killed by thief (Feb 25, 2015)

JewishBoston.com: Four Questions with author Helen Epstein (February 27, 2014)

Reviews by Amos Lassen: “Hindsight: An Autobiography” by Charlotte Wolff— Jewish and Gay in Weimar Germany and Elsewhere (December 30, 2013)

New York Jewish Week: Reissued: A Jewish, Gay Voice Of Weimar Germany And Beyond (December 29, 2013)

WAMC: Alan Chartock in Conversation with Author Helen Epstein [about Melita Maschmann's memoir Account Rendered] (August 1, 2013)

The PubCast: Talking with Patrick Mehr, Plunkett Lake Press rights & digitization manager (June 10, 2013)

Jewish Telegraphic Agency: 'I'm sorry I was a Nazi' (June 3, 2013)

New Yorker (Page Turner): "I was a Nazi, and here's why" (May 29, 2013)

Tablet Magazine: The Jewish Writer's Dream Wife — Why I published Friderike Burger’s memoir of her service as femme de l’artiste to Stefan Zweig (July 24, 2012)

CzechPosition.com: Letters from a distant Prague (March 23, 2012)