Tom Teicholz is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared on Forbes.com, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Los Angeles Magazine as well as The New York Times Magazine, The LA Times, New York magazine, The New Yorker’s Talk of the Town, The Paris Review, Interview Magazine, Narrative magazine, The Forward and the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles where Tommywood, his arts and culture column appeared for a decade.
Tom Teicholz is the author and co-author of many books including Ivan of the Extermination Camp, Like No Other Store by Marvin Traub with Tom Teicholz, 9/12: The Epic Battle of the Ground Zero Responders, Living in Color by Tommy Davidson with Tom Teicholz, as well as the coffee table book, Wilshire Boulevard Temple: Our History as Part of the Fabric of Los Angeles . His journalism has been gathered in a series of volumes, the Tommywood Collection.
Tom Teicholz has produced, written, and consulted on documentary films, including for the Simon Wiesenthal’s Museum of Tolerance, as well as for private families.
Tom Teicholz is the winner of many awards from the Los Angeles Press Club, as well as the Simon Rockower Award from the Jewish Press Association and the Wagro Award from the Warsaw Ghetto Resistance Organization.
In 2016, he founded The Teicholz Holocaust Film Series at Holocaust Museum Los Angeles, named in memory of his parents, for which Tom hosts, curates and for which he conducts the panel discussions for the hybrid in-person and online screenings and discussions.
Between 2018-2019, Teicholz produced and co-hosted with journalist Fred Schruers, The Buried Lede, a podcast about journalism.
Tom Teicholz wrote and narrated an episode of the KCRW program, Final Curtain, on humorist Ephraim Kishon, The Funniest Man in the World.
In 2022, Tom Teicholz was presented with The Legacy Award by Holocaust Museum Los Angeles, at which time he was also presented with citations from the City of Los Angeles and the California State Assembly.
Tom is a graduate of Columbia Law School where he was co-editor and publisher of The Columbia Law School News, and the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, as well as the Radcliffe Publishing Program. At Middlebury College, he was a Charles A. Dana Scholar, and was awarded the Latin Prize at Riverdale Country School where he was co-captain of the Soccer and Swimming Teams.
