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Historical Novels
Experience Enhanced eBooks
15/05/12 10:51
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Enhanced eBooks
22/04/12 13:36
It was my privilege to serve on the e-reader panel at the Alabama Book Festival, Montgomery, Alabama, April 21, 2012. Read More...
Jewish Historical Fiction Torah Travel
23/02/12 16:30
Readers Connect with Authors to Bring Their Stories to Life
“To keep our stories and our traditions alive, we should tell them to our children and our children’s children. In that way we can pass on the wisdom they contain.”
--Claire Datnow, The Nine Inheritors: Read More...
“To keep our stories and our traditions alive, we should tell them to our children and our children’s children. In that way we can pass on the wisdom they contain.”
--Claire Datnow, The Nine Inheritors: Read More...
Extraordinary Torah Journey
11/02/12 08:59
In my historical novel, The Nine Inheritors, I created a fictional story about the journey of a family and their ancient Torah scroll. Recently, I came across the true account of a Torah’s Journey to Uganda, which begins in the early 1900s with an elephant hunter named Semei Kakungulu, connects with a 51-year-old Jewish physician from Plano, Texas, and ends with him delivering an ancient Hebrew text to a remote village in the foothills of Mount Elgon, a towering, dormant volcano in eastern Uganda. I swear I’m not making this up. To read more of this fascinating story, go to this link:
http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2011/jul/24/a-torahs-journey-to-uganda/?print
What Defines Jewish Historical Fiction? The Odyssey of a Torah
21/01/12 12:45
What Defines Jewish Historical Fiction? The Odyssey of a Torah
Jewish historical fiction explores themes that relate to the Jewish experience, primarily that of being an outsider in society, and an outsider as a Jew living among Christians. While Jewish historical novels have Jewish-historical content, Jewish fiction does not seek to proselytize. Authors of Jewish fiction do not need to be Jewish. Conversely, just because an author is Jewish does not make his or her book a work of Jewish fiction. Authors not only portray significant events in Jewish history, including the Holocaust, but also show Jews as fully functioning members of the society and times in which they happen to be living. As the Author of The Nine Inheritors: The Extraordinary Odyssey of a Family and Their Ancient Torah Scroll, I hope that my novel will serve to promote true empathy for Jewish history and experience.
Jewish historical fiction explores themes that relate to the Jewish experience, primarily that of being an outsider in society, and an outsider as a Jew living among Christians. While Jewish historical novels have Jewish-historical content, Jewish fiction does not seek to proselytize. Authors of Jewish fiction do not need to be Jewish. Conversely, just because an author is Jewish does not make his or her book a work of Jewish fiction. Authors not only portray significant events in Jewish history, including the Holocaust, but also show Jews as fully functioning members of the society and times in which they happen to be living. As the Author of The Nine Inheritors: The Extraordinary Odyssey of a Family and Their Ancient Torah Scroll, I hope that my novel will serve to promote true empathy for Jewish history and experience.
Historical Novels about Nazi Propaganda and Torah Odyssey Novel
19/01/12 12:40
How Ordinary Germans were Swept up by Nazi Hysteria
Do we need another book about how ordinary Germans were swept up by Nazi hysteria? Yes, because they provide real insight into how ordinary people—like ourselves, our family, our friends and neighbors can easily be caught in a vicious web of deceit and destruction—if we are not vigilant. I recommend three books that tell a compelling story, which reinforces this powerful message. Read More...
Do we need another book about how ordinary Germans were swept up by Nazi hysteria? Yes, because they provide real insight into how ordinary people—like ourselves, our family, our friends and neighbors can easily be caught in a vicious web of deceit and destruction—if we are not vigilant. I recommend three books that tell a compelling story, which reinforces this powerful message. Read More...
Multicultural Literature and Historical Fiction and Torah Odyssey Novel
24/11/11 09:49
Multicultural Literature and Historical Fiction Multicultural literature helps readers connect with their own cultures and exposes them to other cultures. By reading these stories readers develop more positive attitudes towards different cultural, racial and ethnic groups. A good story does more than changing a reader’s mind—it can change a heart. Multicultural literature emphasizes the differences as well as the similarities across cultures. Let’s celebrate these differences and similarities!
Historical fiction window into the past and Torah Odyssey Novel
24/11/11 09:44
Historical fiction transport us to another time, opening a window onto lives governed by rituals, customs and beliefs fascinatingly different from their own. By entering imaginatively into the lives of others, we begin to empathize and to feel compassion for them; we glimpse differences between the people of their world and, at the same time, perceive that there are important things that human beings have in common.
Torah Dedication Ceremony
24/11/11 09:15
Torah Odyssey and Jewish Historical Fiction
Introduction of a Sefer Torah into a synagogue is done in a ceremony known as Hachnasat Sefer Torah (Hebrew: הכנסת ספר תורה, lit., ushering in the Torah scroll), which is often accompanied by celebratory dancing, singing, and a festive meal. Read More...
Introduction of a Sefer Torah into a synagogue is done in a ceremony known as Hachnasat Sefer Torah (Hebrew: הכנסת ספר תורה, lit., ushering in the Torah scroll), which is often accompanied by celebratory dancing, singing, and a festive meal. Read More...
Jewish Historical Fiction and Torah Odyssey Novel
10/11/11 13:40
The story behind the cover
The Nine Inheritors: The Extraordinary Odyssey of a Family and Their Ancient Torah Scroll
My husband Boris, photographed the ancient Torah scroll featured on the front cover, now housed in the Museum of the Jews of the Middle Ages, in Girona, Spain. Read More...
The Nine Inheritors: The Extraordinary Odyssey of a Family and Their Ancient Torah Scroll
My husband Boris, photographed the ancient Torah scroll featured on the front cover, now housed in the Museum of the Jews of the Middle Ages, in Girona, Spain. Read More...