Novels

Street Corner Dreams

Family, romance, and gangsters support and thwart Golda, Ben, and Morty from achieving their dreams.

Golda gives up independence to marry her widowed brother-in-law, Ben, and care for baby Morty; later, Ben's business mistakes cause financial disaster, forcing Morty to bargain with gangsters and sacrifice his love and career-and perhaps the ability to ever go home again-to save his father.

How to Make a Life

A sweeping saga that follows four generations from the tenements of Brooklyn through WWII, from Woodstock to India, and from Spain to Israel.

How to Make a Life is the story of a family who must learn to accept each other's differences--or risk cutting ties with the very people who anchor their place in the world.

Florence Reiss Kraut

Florence Reiss Kraut is a native New Yorker, raised and educated in New York City.  She holds a BA in English and a MSW in social work, and she worked for over thirty years as a family therapist before retiring to concentrate on her writing and travel widely.  

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Fall Events and Happenings
Fall Events and Happenings

I thought I would commemorate it by highlighting an exhibit at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA where they featured Yiddish women writers—poets, novelists, journalists—in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who were mostly ignored because of their gender.

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Mid-Summer in the Beautiful Berkshires
Mid-Summer in the Beautiful Berkshires

Cloudless blue skies, warm, dry air, green fields and flowers everywhere. That is what I call a perfect Berkshire summer day. I have been enjoying strings of these days, full of concerts, plays and exhibits in museums not to mention walks (we don’t so much do hikes these days) on shady paths with gorgeous views.

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