Helene Silverblatt MD is professor of psychiatry and family and community medicine at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center. She is very concerned about behavioral health training and access to services throughout the state. For the last four years she and her twin sister, Irene Silverblatt, professor of anthropology at Duke University, have traveled to Germany, Austria, and Ukraine to find out more about their cousin, Selma Meerbaum Eisinger and the beautiful poetry she left …
Helene Silverblatt MD is professor of psychiatry and family and community medicine at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center. She is very concerned about behavioral health training and access to services throughout the state. For the last four years she and her twin sister, Irene Silverblatt, professor of anthropology at Duke University, have traveled to Germany, Austria, and Ukraine to find out more about their cousin, Selma Meerbaum Eisinger and the beautiful poetry she left behind, as an 18 year old victim of the Holocaust. This year Irene and Helene had Selma’s work translated into English, edited the poetry’s translation, wrote an introduction, and had the book published by Northwestern University Press as its lead book last fall.