Interview with Helen Epstein, former NYU journalism professor, author, and speaker

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In this episode we have a special guest. Our guest is Helen Epstein. Helen is a former NYU journalism professor, author, and a guest lecturer. Helen is the author, editor or translator of ten books of non-fiction. We talk about her mother’s memoir Franci’s War, her trilogy of books, holocaust survivors, her start in Journalism in Czechoslovakia, and many more interesting topics. I hope you will enjoy the show.

Helen (www.helenepstein.com) is the author, editor or translator of ten books of non-fiction including the Holocaust trilogy Children of the Holocaust, Where She Came From: A Daughter’s Search for Her Mother’s History, and The Long Half-Lives of Love and Trauma Children of the Holocaust was the first book of non-fiction to examine the inter-generational transmission of trauma and is widely used in university courses as well as by psychotherapists treating generations of traumatized communities (Rwanda, Cambodia, Armenia, Bosnia, etc but also children of addicts and alcoholics).

In 2018, she published The Long Half-Lives of Love and Trauma, a book about a long psychoanalysis and her working through childhood sexual abuse by a member of her parents' Czech community. Last year, she edited and published her mother's Franci's War in nine languages (www.franciswar.com).