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Michael is available for in-person and virtual visits with book clubs, schools, synagogues, literary festivals, university departments, Jewish organizations, museums, and more. Whether you’re hosting a casual conversation or a formal lecture, he brings depth, warmth, and a storyteller’s instinct for connection.
Popular Topics Include:
The Book of Roads and Kingdoms: history, midrash, and the Jewish epic.
Princes and Princesses, Diplomats and Warriors: Jewish Power and our Forgotten Stories of Sovereignty.
The Lost Tribes and the Jewish diaspora: What I learned about Babylonian, Persian, Bukharian, Kurdish, Georgian, Caucasus, and Crimean Jews while researching The Book of Roads and Kingdoms.
Faith, fantasy, and counter-history: Writing sacred fiction for a modern age.
The Geonic Age, Babylonia, and the roots of Jewish identity.
Khazaria - the mysterious Jewish realm, and the roots of Jewish Eastern Europe.
Michael also welcomes custom requests—whether you want to dig deep into medieval diplomacy, talk Jewish storytelling and midrash with students, or explore how Jewish stories c.