Barbara Lovenheim

Barbara Lovenheim is an American journalist and author who founded the online magazine NYCitywoman.com. She has written for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and other newspapers and magazines. Lovenheim has also written the books Beating the Marriage Odds: When You Are Smart, Single, and Over 35 and Survival in the Shadows: Seven Jews Hidden in Hitler’s Berlin.

Personal life and education Barbara Lovenheim, the daughter of May (Yampolski) and Clifford Lovenheim, was raised in Rochester, New York.

Career Lovenheim taught at Queens College and Baruch College for more than 14 years. She wrote an article about ghostwriters writing books for college professors about 1975. She then worked at a public relations company in New York. She was a freelance writer for Manhattan publications, like The Village Voice, which led to her writing for The New York Times. She wrote about Maria Callas and Margot Fonteyn. She lived in London for one year and returned to New York.

Lovenheim has written about celebrities, including Katharine Hepburn, Cher, and Robert Redford. She created brochures and books for organizations, such as the Museum of Jewish Heritage and the New York City Ballet. Lovenheim wrote the book Survival in the Shadows: Seven Jews Hidden in Hitler’s Berlin (2003) about Jewish people who survived the Holocaust in Berlin. She published Breaking Ground: A Century of Craft Art in Western New York in 2010. She founded the online magazine, NYCitywoman.com.