Deborah Cohen

Oct 23, 2024 | jewishchronicle.org | Kerry Olitzky |Deborah Cohen |Tracy Newman |Stacey Dressen McQueen

“An Etrog From Across the Sea,” by Kerry Olitzky and Deborah Bodin Cohen, illustrated by Stacey Dressen McQueenSet in 1729 and inspired by Jewish merchant and trader Luis Moises Gomez, this story follows his travel to Corsica. There, he finds spectacular etrogs. In a letter, he writes that he will bring one home to America for his family to use for Sukkot. The trip takes longer than he anticipated. But great news! He arrives just in time for the holiday.

Dec 13, 2023 | theatlantic.com | Deborah Cohen

IBM is one of the oldest technology companies in the world, with a raft of innovations to its credit, including mainframe computing, computer-programming languages, and AI-powered tools. But ask an ordinary person under the age of 40 what exactly IBM does (or did), and the responses will be vague at best. “Something to do with computers, right?” was the best the Gen Zers I queried could come up with.

Mar 14, 2023 | bookshop.org | Deborah Cohen

"As effervescent, for more than four hundred pages, as its winsome and hyperactive characters, and it blends scholarly attention to ideas like psychoanalysis and Wilsonian liberal internationalism with novelistic renderings of these writers' dizzying trajectories abroad."--The New Yorker "As they follow Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine, Americans are getting an inkling of what it felt like eight decades ago when fascist dictators were on the brink of plunging Europe into war. . . .