Donna Rifkind's guest appearances

Donna Rifkind

Free Library Podcast

NitrateVille Radio

Lifelines with John Augustine - Delta College Public Radio

Salka Viertel

Ross King

Frank Lloyd Wright

Jeanine Basinger

Simon Winchester

Siri Hustvedt

Rebecca Traister

Dan Pfeiffer

Eve Ensler

Gail Collins

Kate Schatz

Sarah McBride

Ijeoma Oluo

Kevin Young

Sam Sifton

OwlTail

The little-known story of screenwriter Salka Viertel, who created a refuge for famous figures escaping World War ll.

Salka Viertel - The Sun and Her Stars by Donna Rifkind

A prolific book critic whose reviews appear in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and the New York Times Book Review, Donna Rifkind was a 2006 finalist for the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing from the National Book Critics Circle. The Sun and Her Stars is her ''marvelous, knowledgeable'' (Boston Herald) look at the life of Salka Viertel, the until-now unheralded German Jewish expat screenwriter and Garbo confidant who created a Hollywood haven for scores of European émigrés-including Albert Einstein, Arnold Schoenberg, and Bertolt Brecht, among myriad others-who had escaped the horrors of Nazi Germany.  (recorded 6/11/2020)

A prolific book critic whose reviews appear in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and the New York Times Book Review, Donna Rifkind was a 2006 finalist for the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing from the National Book Critics Circle. The Sun and Her Stars is her ''marvelous, knowledgeable'' (Boston Herald) look at the life of Salka Viertel, the until-now unheralded German Jewish expat screenwriter and Garbo confidant who created a Hollywood haven for scores of European émigrés-including Albert Einstein, Arnold Schoenberg, and Bertolt Brecht, among myriad others-who had escaped the horrors of Nazi Germany. <br> (recorded 6/11/2020)

Donna Rifkind | The Sun and Her Stars: Salka Viertel and Hitler's Exiles in the Golden Age of Hollywood

Ben Model

53: Author Donna Rifkind on Salka Viertel and 1930s Hollywood Emigrés in The Sun and Her Stars • Ben Model on Accompanying Socially Distanced Silents at The Silent Comedy Watch Party (84:02)

53: Donna Rifkind on Salka Viertel • Ben Model on Accompanying Silents Online