Philip B. Uninsky
Academic social scientist, attorney, and long-time director of non-profits who researches trauma, resilience, and social programs; author of Invented Lives from Troubled Times about his extended Jewish family's survival and resilience.
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Apr 4, 2026 • 48min
Philip Boris Uninsky, "Invented Lives from Troubled Times: A Jewish Family’s Forms of Resilience after Surviving Pogroms, Revolution, and the Holocaust" (Cherry Orchard Books, 2025)
Philip B. Uninsky, an academic social scientist, attorney, and nonprofit director, recounts his extended Jewish family’s survival across pogroms, revolution, and the Holocaust. He explores memory’s slipperiness and creative nonfiction methods. Short portraits reveal diverse, surprising forms of resilience. Conversations probe secrecy, reinvention, and why some stayed while others left.
