Helen Epstein

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Helen Epstein

Helen Epstein (born November 27, 1947 in Prague , Czechoslovakia ) is a Czech- American journalist and author.

Life

Epstein was born in Prague to Czechoslovak Holocaust survivors who emigrated to the USA after the communist takeover in 1948 . Her father was the Olympian Kurt Epstein . She grew up in New York City and attended Hunter College High School there. She then studied musicology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem .

Her journalistic career began with a report for the Jerusalem Post about the invasion of the Warsaw Pact countries into the Czechoslovakia . In 1971 she graduated from Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. It was there that she began her long friendship with the cultural critic Margo Jefferson . After graduation, Epstein freelanced for various magazines such as The National Jewish Monthly and The Sunday New York Times . She wrote her first cover story about the musician Ed Birdwell . She has received many awards for her work on the art historian Meyer Schapiro and well-known musicians such as Vladimir Horowitz , Leonard Bernstein and Yo-Yo Ma .

Epstein coined the term " second generation after the Holocaust ", her contribution Heirs of the Holocaust in the New York Times magazine on June 19, 1977 opened the topic and met with international interest.

She lives near Boston with her husband and two sons .

Works (in German)

  • The children of the Holocaust, conversations with the sons and daughters of survivors . CH Beck, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-406-32047-3 (Original title: Children of the Holocaust . Translated by Christian Spiel).
  • The musical spark of music, musicians and making music - encounters with famous performers . Foreword by Joachim Kaiser . Scherz, Bern 1988, ISBN 3-502-18180-2 (Original title: Musik Talk, Conversations with Musicians .).
  • Threefold homeless, a daughter's search for her mother's lost world . Diana, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-8284-5016-4 (Original title: Where She Came From . Translated by Gaby Wurster and Heike Schlatterer).

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personal data
SURNAME Epstein, Helen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech-American journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague , Czechoslovakia