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News; Czechs give outgoing President Zeman poor marks for performance; Czech defending champions reach doubles final at Australian Open; Interview with Helen Epstein.

Welcome Patrick Mehr to today's episode of the GOSH podcast!   On the last episode of the GOSH Podcast, we met Helen and learned more about her journey with endometrial cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic. This week, we are back with Patrick Mehr, Helen's husband, to share his experiences as a caregiver during and after his wife's endometrial cancer diagnosis. In this episode, you will hear about how Patrick took care of Helen and himself during the journey as well as some useful tips for whoever is undertaking the role of a caregiver for a cancer patient. Born and educated in Paris, France, Patrick Mehr is a graduate of École Polytechnique and of France's civil service Corps des Mines. Patrick moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1982 to become a strategic consultant. He then worked for the Boston Consulting Group before running his own consulting practice, advising industrial and high-technology companies on business development and strategy. For the past 15 years, Patrick has been running Plunkett Lake Press which publishes eBooks of non-fiction, including biographies and memoirs. His wife of 40 years is Helen Epstein, author of Getting Through It: My Year of Cancer During Covid. They live in Lexington, Massachusetts, have two grown children, and two grandchildren. Helen's book "Getting Through It: My Year of Cancer during Covid ": https://plunkettlakepress.com/gti  Learn more about Helen's works: http://www.helenepstein.com/  _For more information on the Gynecologic Cancer Initiative, please visit https://gynecancerinitiative.ca/ or email us at info@gynecancerinitiative.ca Where to learn more about us: Twitter – @GCI_ClusterInstagram – @gynecancerinitiativeFacebook – facebook.com/gynecancerinitiative

Welcome to the second episode of the Season 3 GOSH Podcast! Today we are featuring Helen Epstein, endometrial cancer survivor and the author of the book “Getting Through It: My Year of Cancer During Covid”. In this episode, Helen talks about her experiences navigating endometrial cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic and her motivation behind writing the book.   Helen Epstein is the author, co-author, translator or editor of ten books of narrative nonfiction. She became a journalist at the age of 20 and became the first tenured woman journalism professor at New York University, teaching about 1000 students over 12 years. She guest lectures extensively at universities, libraries, and religious institutions in North America and abroad. Just after Covid arrived in North America, journalist Helen Epstein was diagnosed with endometrial cancer — one of a predicted 66,570 new cases of cancer of the uterine body in the United States in 2021. Helen wrote a memoir called “Getting Through It”, a candid and eye-opening account of a medical steeplechase of surgery, chemo, and radiation therapy, bringing together reporting, research, and elements of memoir to tell an important story. Helen's book "Getting Through It: My Year of Cancer during Covid ": https://plunkettlakepress.com/gti  Learn more about Helen's works: http://www.helenepstein.com/  _For more information on the Gynecologic Cancer Initiative, please visit https://gynecancerinitiative.ca/ or email us at info@gynecancerinitiative.ca Where to learn more about us: Twitter – @GCI_ClusterInstagram – @gynecancerinitiativeFacebook – facebook.com/gynecancerinitiative

In this episode we chat with Helen Epstein, the author of Getting Through It: My Year of Cancer During Covid in which she chronicles her diagnosis with endometrial cancer and dealing with treatment and its aftermath as a pandemic gripped the world. Resources: Ms. Epstein's website is http://www.helenepstein.com Getting Through It: My Year of Cancer During Covid: http://www.helenepstein.com/gti.html%20/

Helen Epstein on her father Kurt Epstein, a Jewish Czechoslovak athlete who insisted on taking part in the 1936 "Nazi Olympics" and is the subject of a new exhibition.

Who would have thought that there'd be something scarier than cancer?Doctors and other medical professionals still have ways to go before finally understanding the totality of cancer.But at the very least, they've got some idea(s) about cancer…which is very much UNLIKE Covid – totally new problem to the world!For something so new and unknown to vastly “terrorize” the world, cancer just seems so bearable.What's eye opening about this phenomenon is this….When you start focusing on what really needs to be done, impossibility becomes so much closer to inevitability.Helen Epstein can surely attest to this!Helen is a seasoned journalist, speaker and author, who was diagnosed with gynecological cancer during the pandemic.Nobody really wants to hear they have cancer, but when COVID came, Helen decided to look at cancer differently!With 2 terrifying major diseases plaguing the world, Helen just couldn't afford to spend her mind worrying about something she can only hope to understand.She started looking at cancer in a positive light – cancer is curable, a lot of people survive cancer, cancer is more tolerable than COVID, etc.In changing her mindset and attitude towards cancer, Helen slowly but surely found the secret to a speedy recovery from cancer, and she aims to share this with other people struggling from cancer.Helen wrote a book called “Getting Through It: My Year of Cancer During COVID, with the hopes of influencing cancer patients to take back their lives.What makes cancer a lesser concern (in the face of the pandemic)? How has COVID affected cancer care treatment, systems and protocols? What misconceptions about cancer can be debunked but most people still believe in?Learn more from the source!Check these out to learn more about Helen Epstein and her best-selling books!Website: www.helenepstein.com/Tune in to learn more about understanding cancer from a practical perspective and navigating your options in cancer care treatment.Integrative Cancer Solutions was created to instill hope and empowerment. Other people have been where you are right now and have already done the research for you. Listen to their stories and journeys and apply what they learned to achieve similar outcomes as they have, cancer remission and an even more fullness of life than before the diagnosis. Guests will discuss what therapies, supplements, and practitioners they relied on to beat cancer. Once diagnosed, time is of the essence. This podcast will dramatically reduce your learning curve as you search for your own solution to cancer. For more information about products and services discussed in this podcast, please visit www.integrativecancersolutions.com. To learn more about the cutting-edge integrative cancer therapies Dr. Karlfeldt offer at his center, please visit www.TheKarlfeldtCenter.com.

Helen Epstein, a prolific journalist and author, discusses her mother's memoir about her life in Nazi-occupied Europe. "Franci's War" starts in 1942 when 22-year-old Franci Rabinek began a three-year journey that would take her from Terezin, the Nazis' “model ghetto,” to the Czech family camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau, slave labor camps in Hamburg, and finally Bergen Belsen. Trained as a dress designer, Franci survived the war and would go on to establish a fashion salon in New York. Series: "Library Channel" [Humanities] [Show ID: 37412]

Helen Epstein, a prolific journalist and author, discusses her mother's memoir about her life in Nazi-occupied Europe. "Franci's War" starts in 1942 when 22-year-old Franci Rabinek began a three-year journey that would take her from Terezin, the Nazis' “model ghetto,” to the Czech family camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau, slave labor camps in Hamburg, and finally Bergen Belsen. Trained as a dress designer, Franci survived the war and would go on to establish a fashion salon in New York. Series: "Library Channel" [Humanities] [Show ID: 37412]

Helen Epstein, a prolific journalist and author, discusses her mother's memoir about her life in Nazi-occupied Europe. "Franci's War" starts in 1942 when 22-year-old Franci Rabinek began a three-year journey that would take her from Terezin, the Nazis' “model ghetto,” to the Czech family camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau, slave labor camps in Hamburg, and finally Bergen Belsen. Trained as a dress designer, Franci survived the war and would go on to establish a fashion salon in New York. Series: "Library Channel" [Humanities] [Show ID: 37412]

Helen Epstein, a prolific journalist and author, discusses her mother's memoir about her life in Nazi-occupied Europe. "Franci's War" starts in 1942 when 22-year-old Franci Rabinek began a three-year journey that would take her from Terezin, the Nazis' “model ghetto,” to the Czech family camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau, slave labor camps in Hamburg, and finally Bergen Belsen. Trained as a dress designer, Franci survived the war and would go on to establish a fashion salon in New York. Series: "Library Channel" [Humanities] [Show ID: 37412]

Helen Epstein, a prolific journalist and author, discusses her mother's memoir about her life in Nazi-occupied Europe. "Franci's War" starts in 1942 when 22-year-old Franci Rabinek began a three-year journey that would take her from Terezin, the Nazis' “model ghetto,” to the Czech family camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau, slave labor camps in Hamburg, and finally Bergen Belsen. Trained as a dress designer, Franci survived the war and would go on to establish a fashion salon in New York. Series: "Library Channel" [Humanities] [Show ID: 37412]

This podcast is brought to you by Anablock. Anablock is a system integrator and Salesforce partner. Anablock's technical team helps organizations to implement, customize, and optimize their Salesforce applications. In this episode we have a special guest. Our guest is Helen Epstein. Helen is a former NYU journalism professor, author, and a guest lecturer. Helen is the author, editor or translator of ten books of non-fiction. We talk about her mother's memoir Franci's War, her trilogy of books, holocaust survivors, her start in Journalism in Czechoslovakia, and many more interesting topics. I hope you will enjoy the show. Helen (www.helenepstein.com) is the author, editor or translator of ten books of non-fiction including the Holocaust trilogy Children of the Holocaust, Where She Came From: A Daughter's Search for Her Mother's History, and The Long Half-Lives of Love and Trauma Children of the Holocaust was the first book of non-fiction to examine the inter-generational transmission of trauma and is widely used in university courses as well as by psychotherapists treating generations of traumatized communities (Rwanda, Cambodia, Armenia, Bosnia, etc but also children of addicts and alcoholics). In 2018, she published The Long Half-Lives of Love and Trauma, a book about a long psychoanalysis and her working through childhood sexual abuse by a member of her parents' Czech community. Last year, she edited and published her mother's Franci's War in nine languages (www.franciswar.com). 

The US journalist and writer discusses Franci’s War, her Prague-born mother Franci Rabinek Epstein’s candid and gripping account of surviving the Holocaust.

In January of this year, hundreds of Holocaust survivors gathered at Auschwitz to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the largest Nazi concentration camp. The survivors and their children rededicated themselves to remembering the horror of the Holocaust, even as a Pew study confirms that nearly 3 in 10 Americans say they are not sure how many Jews died in the Holocaust. With anti-Semitism resurging in the United States and around the world, how important is it that survivors' stories be told? And what should the next generations do to keep their stories alive? Three authors, whose lives have been shaped by the Holocaust, share their stories with us: Helen Epstein, journalist, author and editor of her late mother's memoir, "Franci's War: A Woman's Story of Survival." Bernice Lerner, senior scholar at Boston University's Center for Character and Social Responsibility, and author of "All the Horrors of War: A Jewish Girl, a British Doctor, and the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen." Sylvia Ruth Gutmann, public speaker and author of her memoir, "A Life Rebuilt: The Remarkable Transformation of a War Orphan." LATER in the show: Telehealth Services Surge In The Age of COVID-19 Anxiety is running high during the coronavirus pandemic. Is that cough of yours a threatening symptom or just spring allergies? And what if you need medical attention for problems unrelated to COVID-19, but want to stay safe by remaining socially distant? For thousands of patients, the solution is a click away. Use of telemedicine has seen a surge during the pandemic, which has also led to increased interest in a local startup. Guests: Michael Sheeley, co-founder and CEO of Nurse-1-1 Amy Rose Taylor, adult gerontology nurse practitioner and nurse for Nurse-1-1 Show Credits: Under the Radar with Callie Crossley is a production of WGBH, produced by Hannah Uebele and engineered by Dave Goodman.

Helen Epstein is the author of "Another Fine Mess: America, Uganda, and the War on Terror." Epstein has been working in Uganda for the last twenty years. During that time, the region has received some $20 billion of foreign aid, yet the quality of education, health care, and basic standards of living remain low. Epstein’s analysis of the situation centers on Uganda’s longtime dictator, Yoweri Museveni. She argues that his support for the West’s War on Terror has allowed him to channel funds meant for public services into shoring up his regime.

With more than a million displaced people having found safety within Uganda’s borders, the region’s most willing supporter of refugees is feeling the strain. But a recent UN-backed effort to raise money for the crisis overlooks the fact that Uganda's president instigated many of the conflicts from which the refugees have fled. In this episode, PS editors Jonathan Stein and Whitney Arana speak with Helen Epstein, a professor at Bard College, about the real story behind the region’s current challenges.

Balthus: Cats & Girls Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play Short Films at NYFF Fighting for Life by S. Josephine Baker, Introduction by Helen Epstein https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/52570

Balthus: Cats & Girls Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play Short Films at NYFF Fighting for Life by S. Josephine Baker, Introduction by Helen Epstein http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/52570

Non-fiction narratives of trauma – in the form of journalism, family history, documentary and memoir – are now a feature of all the arts and many professions. Thousands of non-professional authors in the 21st century are also writing and, thanks to new technologies, self-publishing their narratives. Speaking from her own experience as well as an archive of letters and e-mails she has assembled from readers over 30 years, Epstein, a veteran journalist, biographer and memoirist, examines the motivations and rewards of writing traumatic narrative and compares the process to the healing effects of psychotherapy. Helen Epstein began her professional career as a reporter for the Jerusalem Post while she was a musicology major at Hebrew University. After journalism school at Columbia University, she became a freelance cultural journalist for the New York Times and the first tenured female professor of journalism at New York University. After the death of her mother, a survivor of the Holocaust, Epstein began an eight-year exploration into her Jewish ancestry, reconstructing an untold history from three generations of women. in 1979, her first book Children of the Holocaust quickly became a classic that was subsequently translated into French, German, Italian, Czech, Swedish and Japanese. "An enormous achievement," wrote the Chicago Tribune. "Heart-wrenching and unforgettable." Born in Prague and raised speaking Czech in the Czech emigre community of post-war New York City, Epstein was always fascinated by that culture. She wrote about it in her 2005 memoir, Where She Came From: A Daughter’s Search for Her Mother’s History, a major contribution to both Jewish family history and the social history of Central European women. In her essay, “Coming to Memoir as a Journalist,” Epstein recounts her journey into this literary hybrid of journalism and memoir, reflecting that “unlike journalism, which demands that reporters ignore or subsume that subjective reality, memoir encourages writers to plumb it.” In her writing, Epstein enjoys working through the challenges of exploring the depths of subjective experience as it is informed by her journalistic, empirical research.

Writes frequently on public health for various publications, including The New York Review of Books and The New York Times Magazine . She has conducted extensive research on public health in developing countries for Human Rights Watch, the Open Society Institute, the Rockefeller Foundation and other organizations. She is a scientist, research scholar, consultant and writer having completed her doctorate at Cambridge University and post doctorate work at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the University of California, Davis. Her book, The Invisible Cure, has been referred to as “traveling into remote and hard-to-comprehend territory with an unblinking and sure-footed guide.” It's the product of more than a decade of research resulting in a book that the New York Times called “enlightening and troubling”.

Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings, read by Daniel B. Clendenin. Essay: *He Knows My Name* guest essay by Lindsey Crittenden for Sunday, 30 September 2007; book review: *The Invisible Cure; Africa, the West, and the Fight Against AIDS* by Helen Epstein (2007); film review: *Deep Water* (2006); poem review: *Otherwise* by Jane Kenyon.

OSI's Public Health Program hosted a presentation by Helen Epstein on her groundbreaking new book The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West, and the Fight Against AIDS (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). (Recorded: September 4, 2007)