Charles Belfoure is The New York Times best­selling author of The Paris Archi­tect, a Jew­ish-inter­est book. A retired his­toric preser­va­tion archi­tect, he is a good-natured gen­tile who grew up with Jews in Bal­ti­more and will not bore peo­ple with a pre­ten­tious lit­er­ary pre­sen­ta­tion. They learn about their own his­to­ry, pogroms, and Faberge East­er Eggs.