Aron Hirt-Man­heimer found­ed Davka mag­a­zine, and edit­ed Reform Judaism mag­a­zine (URJ) from 1976 to 2014. His books include Against Silence: The Voice and Vision of Elie Wiesel (Holo­caust Library), Jagendorf’s Foundry: A Mem­oir of the Roman­ian Holo­caust (Harper­Collins), and Jews: The Essence and Char­ac­ter of a Peo­ple (Harper­Collins). He holds a Mas­ters in Jew­ish Edu­ca­tion from HUC-JIR and lives in Connecticut.