Daniel's newest book, RUSSIAN SILHOUETTE: A MEMOIR OF ACTIVISM AND IDENTITY, explores Daniel's numerous travels to the USSR and post-Soviet Russia from the 1970s through the 1990s when he immersed himself in communities of oppressed Soviet Jews and political dissidents, many of whom were facing arrest, imprisonment, labor camp sentences, and internal exile. As Daniel offered them support, often at great risk to himself, he drew courage from their insistence on asserting their identities and values, and finally came out as a gay man. RUSSIAN SILHOUETTE makes the point that when we pursue the Jewish value of tikkun olam-healing the world-we might also be healing ourselves.

Available in print, ebook, and audiobook formats (with Daniel narrating the audiobook)
from Rattling Good Yarns Press.

"…rich in detail and crackling with tension….a real-life spy thriller wrapped in an intimately personal memoir." Wayne Hoffman, author of The End of Her: Racing Against Alzheimer's to Solve a Murder.

"…a page turner that will break open your heart to the complex world of secrecy and persecution behind the Iron Curtain." Annette H. Levine, Professor, Latin American Literature and Jewish Studies, Ithaca College.

"…this richly compelling memoir… is an inspirational call to fight for justice." John D'Emilio, author of Making Gay History: Memoir of a Scholar-Activist.

"...a deeply felt meditation on courage, concealment, and connection, rendered with striking historical clarity and emotional precision....The future...will require books like this." Dr. Karine Rashkovsky, author of An Improbable Life: My Father's Escape from Soviet Russia.

"Jaffe is a phenomenal storyteller, with a deeply human and humorous approach to balance out the heart-wrenching parts of the story." Victoria Ivie, Bookseller, on Netgalley.