I did not follow a trail of evidence to discover that the editor of this brittle dictionary was a distant forebear. No. The connection between this little book and my own family is obtuse and indirect. Yet it is also vast and profound."  To read more, click here.

From my article in the Jewish Daily Forward. "Jews of Bukhara Helped Me To Understand Personal History: A Trip to Central Asia Informed Scholar's Research." 

What is "Global Judaism" and where do Boston's Jewish communities fit in?  What ties America's Ashkenazi Jewish population to Central Asia's Bukharan Jews? Please join me this week at one (or more)  of my speaking engagements in the Boston area!  For details, click here.

"Until the fall of 2007, Michelle Malakova’s family life was much like that of other children whose parents hate each other and have separated," writes journalist Janet Malcolm.  Then Michelle witnessed her father's murder at the hands of a hit-man hired by her own mother.
 
In her 2011 book, Iphigenia in Forest Hills, Malcolm tells the story of Daniel Malakov's murder, which shook the Bukharan Jewish community in Queens, NY.  Now in the New York Review of Books, Malcolm focuses on the aftermath.  Tension between the Malakov and Borokhova families remains charged, and the question of custody has still not been resolved.  What will happen to Michelle? 


For the first of three articles, read here.