Erna Paris is the author of seven books and has contributed to ten other works, for which she has received many awards and honours. She has also made a significant volunteer contribution to the Canadian literary community.

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The Sun Climbs Slow: Justice in the Age of Imperial America

A powerful investigation of the story and individuals behind America's refusal to acknowledge international law and an inquiry into the urgent role of international criminal justice.

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Long Shadows: Truth, Lies and History

Erna Paris travels across four continents to conduct a searing, personal examination into the shifting terrain of war and memory that seeks to understand how nations come to terms with their most painful history.

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The End of Days: Tolerance, Tyranny and the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain

A fascinating study of how Spain, the most open, tolerant nation in medieval Europe, became the least tolerant nation in Europe, with an Inquisition against heretics and a major population expulsion.

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The Garden and the Gun: A Journey Inside Israel

A personal journey that explores the shifting ideologies of Israel from the liberal — nationalist idealism of the early settlers and the kibbutz movement to the parallel, but now religious — nationalist ideology of the settlers in the Occupied Territories. A travel book with a difference.

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Unhealed Wounds: France and the Klaus Barbie Affair

Unhealed Wounds explores the way France's sharp political divisions dating back to the Revolution of 1789 shaped the national response when Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie was kidnapped in Bolivia, in 1983, and returned to France for trial. It is the story of the creation of a longstanding national myth about the Second World War, the French collaboration with the Nazis, and the French Resistance.

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Stepfamilies: Making Them Work

Effective advice for coping with the unsuspected problems of stepfamilies with children. Erna Paris has analyzed the successes and failures of people in remarriages and offers practical answers to predictable problems.

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Jews: An Account of Their Experience in Canada

Jews is a thought-provoking, often entertaining look at the history of Jewish life in Canada. The result is a book that provides unusual insights into the collective struggle of European Jews to adapt to their new home.