by epollack | Feb 10, 2025 | Blog
Episode 7 of MAYBE IT’S ME is out! (Sorry for the delay … I somehow forgot to upload the actual recording of the episode!) How did a Jewish cemetery end up inside a General Motors Cadillac plant? Why did the city seize the Detroit neighborhood that once...
by epollack | Jan 24, 2025 | Blog
Terrible times, but maybe you need a laugh? Ep 6 of my podcast MAYBE IT’S ME is just out. This one is about a truly horrifying sex-ed book that has been chasing me around and trying to bite me for decades. Back in the 1950s and ’60s, parents sure did a...
by epollack | Jan 10, 2025 | Blog
My parents were obsessive about keeping our 1950s ranch house spotlessly clean, well repaired, and orderly. They seemed to be afraid of everything. But why? Sadly, we often don’t figure out the reasons for our parents’ craziness until they’re no...
by epollack | Dec 27, 2024 | Blog
Could the Shah of Iran have been Jewish? Maybe. What interests me even more is how family legends get started, what they mean to us, the amazing ways in which our family stories intersect with larger social movements and historical events, and how much we ever really...
by epollack | Dec 14, 2024 | Blog
The third episode of my podcast MAYBE IT’S ME is now up and running. If you want to know whether my father’s crazy theory that the Shah of Iran was a secret Jew might be true, tune in! You can find MAYBE IT’S ME on Spotify, Apple podcasts,...
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