Elizabeth Mehren is a writer and journalist based in Portland. She is the author or co-author of five books, including “I Lived to Tell the World: Stories from Survivors of Holocaust, Genocide, and the Atrocities of War.”
August 26, 2025Elizabeth Mehren
Rebekah Sobel, the museum's executive director since December 2023, is aiming for a trifecta of highlighting Jewish culture, Jewish art, and managing trauma stories.
July 1, 2025Elizabeth Mehren
The nonprofit used bookstore is as much about community as it is about bargain books.
March 2, 2025Elizabeth Mehren
Street poets gather weekly at the "School in the Sky" to study poetry and create their own, some of which is on display in a words-and-art exhibit at Central Library.
February 9, 2025Elizabeth Mehren
The veteran Portland Baroque Orchestra violinist, who'll be featured in PBO's "D'amore" concerts Feb. 15 and 16, takes an effervescent and ecstatic approach to music and to life.
February 6, 2024Elizabeth Mehren
With music and dancing and dining and a welcoming vibe, a refugee from Pol Pot's Cambodia has created a gathering place for Southeast Asians and others in greater Portland.
September 7, 2021Elizabeth Mehren
Kate Nason's memoir traces an emergence from bad marriages and the shadow of a president and a White House intern.
November 19, 2020Elizabeth Mehren
From making music in wartime Sarajevo to performing and teaching in Oregon, violist Dijana Ihas forges a new life.
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