Fred Skolnik

Thoughts for a Rainy Day Fred Skolnik

Fred Skolnik is the author of 6 novels: The Other Shore, Death, and Basic Forms under his own name, and Rafi's World, The Links in the Chain, and The Nightmare under his Fred Russell pen name. His stories, essays, and poems have appeared in around 200 journals. A collection of his longer stories called Americans & Other Stories appeared in 2017 and a 1,000-page novel of his covering Jewish life in the 20th century via Poland, the Holocaust, and the State of Israel will be published in Spring 2022 by Addison and Highsmith. He is also the editor in chief of the 22-volume second edition of the Encyclopaedia Judaica, winner of the 2007 Dartmouth Medal.