Peter Appelbaum is Emeritus Professor of Pathology at Pennsylvania State University, USA. During his retirement years he has published fourteen books and translations about Jews in Central Europe during World War I and thereafter. He was awarded the (London) Times Literary Supplement - Risa Domb Porjes Prize in 2019 for his translation of Avigdor Hameiri’s Hell on Earth. He has published two previous translations of Theodor Lessing’s works: Jewish Self-Hate (2021), and Enemy in the Country: Satires and Novellas (2022).