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Helen Epstein

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Born in Prague.
Grew up in New York City.
Graduated Hebrew University in Jerusalem
Graduated Columbia Journalism School
Taught at NYU Journalism
Now live outside Boston, MA

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	Where She Came From: A Daughter's Search for Her Mother's History 3.98 avg rating — 451 ratings — published 1997 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Children of the Holocaust: Conversations with Sons and Daughters of Survivors 4.19 avg rating — 399 ratings — published 1979 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Joe Papp: An American Life 4.31 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 1994 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Long Half-Lives of Love and Trauma 4.30 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2017 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Music Talks: Conversations with Musicians 4.16 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1987 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Getting Through It: My Year of Cancer during Covid 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Miss DeLay: portrait of beloved violin teacher Dorothy DeLay really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Jewish Athlete: Swimming Against Stereotype in 20th Century Europe 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Meyer Schapiro: Portrait of an Art Historian 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Children of the Holocaust: conversations with sons and daughters of survivors 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Recently spoke and read to two mental health professional book groups -- first to 60 social workers interested in psychoanalysis, then to a small group of psi as they are called in French about my new book The Long Half-Lives of Love and trauma. Great fun and free therapy!

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Published on May 14, 2018 09:02 • Tags: childhood-sexual-abuse, memoir, psychoanalysis, therapy

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Educated

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What Am I Doing Here?

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“Before you say anything censorious about anyone, ask yourself three questions: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary? If the answer to any one of these is even a qualified no, you’d best be quiet.” And she remembered it. Miss”
― Helen Epstein, Miss DeLay: portrait of beloved violin teacher Dorothy DeLay

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“The expulsion of the Sudeten Germans following the annihilation of the Czechoslovak Jews — both highly educated, skilled, and largely middle-class segments of the population — left Czechoslovakia with an economic vacuum that the government hurried to fill.”
― Helen Epstein, Where She Came From: A Daughter's Search for Her Mother's History

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“It is by now a truism that the victim is often blamed for the crime. Perpetrators tend to deny, repress, forget. Victims attempt to master trauma by assuming responsibility for it.”
― Helen Epstein, Where She Came From: A Daughter's Search for Her Mother's History

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Helen’s Quotes

“Czech: Řekni mi, co čteš, a já ti řeknu, kdo jsi.
English: Tell me what you read, and I'll tell you who you are.

First president of Czechoslovakia.”
― Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk

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