Mark Klempner

Ithaca, New York, United States
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historian, folklorist, social commentator

<p>Mark Klempner is a folklorist, historian, and social commentator. The son of an immigrant who barely escaped the Holocaust, Klempner spent nearly a decade talking with and getting to know the Dutch rescuers in order to write <em>The Heart Has Reasons: Holocaust Rescuers and Their Stories of Courage</em>. Klempner grew up in New York, and attended Cornell University, graduating Phi Beta Kappa in 1997, and winning a J. William Fulbright Fellowship. In 2000, he received an M.A. in folklore from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.</p> <p>Klempner&rsquo;s <a href="http://www.hearthasreasons.com/articles.php" target="_top">articles</a> have appeared internationally in professional publications such as the <em>Oral History Reader</em><img style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=thehearthasre-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1" alt="" width="1" height="1" border="0" />, as well as in the <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2008/0606/p09s01-coop.html"><em>Christian Science Monitor</em></a>, <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/11/447"><em>Baltimore Sun</em></a>, and other mainstream newspapers and periodicals. He has also been featured as a radio commentator on <em>Morning Edition</em>, and has been interviewed on <a href="http://www.ideastream.org/an/entry/11777">NPR</a>, and other <a href="http://www.prx.org/pieces/10483">broadcast media</a>. Online, Klempner is a blogger for <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-klempner" target="_top"><em>The Huffington Post</em></a> and has contributed to <a href="http://www.alternet.org/authors/9200" target="_parent"><em>Alternet.org</em> </a>and <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/28/4171"><em>CommonDreams.org</em></a>.</p>

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