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Hi I'm Sanoj Jose,Author, Poet,a business manager and a Post graduate in Economics and Business administration was always fascinated in exploring the true essence of Spirituality. It is this interest and the thought provoked by the Divine Angels in his dream which led to the writing of the book, MY DAY OUT WITH AN ANGEL.This book is an outcome of the thought provoked by the Angels in my dream and Angel Gesuina guided me in writing this book from beginning till end. This book is a conversation between Angel Gesuina who is the Angel of Creativity and me in which the Angel explains how we could walk in the light and the means to achieve that goal. Most of the time I was just a listener as the thoughts and messages that came in was from a higher source of wisdom which I was not aware of. This book helps you in understanding the myths about spirituality and the ways that you should take in leading a spiritual life, understand your divine life purpose in this world and finally fulfill the Divine purpose of oneness with the Divine power which is the source from which we all came into this world. This book will help you in understanding the ways to attain the ultimate love, peace, harmony, joy and abundance in all areas of your life.
Buy my book at Amazon :http://www.amazon.com/My-Day-Out-With...
Visit my blog space: http://joseasanoj.wordpress.com/
Thought you all might like to check out www.TheAuthorShow.com, a site I discovered on Goodreads. I think it's a good site to promote your books. I'm doing a live interview there tomorrow, May 16, available all day in the non-fiction section. Naturally I'd like you to hear about my memoir, Stumbling Through the Dark, but I'd also encourage you to check it out as a good promo site. I'd love to hear your comments.And by the way, is anyone going to the Jewish Book Council next month? Sally, I know you are. Anyone else? If so, maybe we can get together.
I'll definitely try to listen into your show, Thelma. I'm curious, is that a paid promotional site, or one that is seeking authors to interview without remuneration?
No, their interviews are free, but they also have some pay-for-promotion plans you can choose afterward if you're interested.
Very nice. Thanks for letting us know about it. I have the link open on my computer to remind me to listen to you tomorrow. Break a leg!
Announcing the Online Publication of A New Novel "Fire In My Ears"
by Susan Schneider
Fire in My Ears is the story of Mary, a too beautiful young woman who has been taught that her appearance is her only asset. She fails to develop any additional aptitudes or talents, tragically concluding that her beauty is all she needs. She makes one monumental decision just as she embarks on adulthood, and this sparks her life journey that is replete with anger, resentment and despair. The misery she has spawned spreads directly to her children and grandchildren, infecting her descendants like a family plague. Determined to save at least one member of her family from this curse, she begins telling Sarah, her nine-year-old granddaughter, the story of her life. Sarah tries to understand the messages in her grandmother’s nightly tales as she is navigating her own developing life.
Learn how Mary makes her way from a shtetl in Belarus to the East End of London and on to New York all the time laboring under the cloud of her ill-fated decision. Meet her seven children, their husbands and wives and children, and discover how the seeds of their unhappiness were planted long before their births. And finally, admire the heroic effort that Mary makes to atone and save Sarah.
Readers may order this as an e-book on Amazon and Nook, for only $2.99 until July 3rd.
Susan Schneider
fireinmyears@gmail.com
susanschneider-author.com
facebook.com/fireinmyears
516-429-8262
Susan wrote: "Announcing the Online Publication of A New Novel "Fire In My Ears"
by Susan Schneider
Fire in My Ears is the story of Mary, a too beautiful young woman who has been taught that her appearance is h..."
Sounds fascinating. It's going on my TBR pile.
Susan wrote: "Announcing the Online Publication of A New Novel "Fire In My Ears"
by Susan Schneider
Fire in My Ears is the story of Mary, a too beautiful young woman who has been taught that her appearance is h..."
Is this strictly an e-book?
Hi,I did read your rules and see where you are allowing authors to post their books on this discussion board. If there is a misunderstanding, please let me know and then I'll apologize!
I recently published Gypsy Music Street on amazon. One might call it a Holocaust memoir, but it truly is so much more. The mother and daughter bond, history, love, loss, the endless ramifications of the Holocaust from one generation to the next are all chronicled in the story. My mother died an old woman without ever realizing her dream of traveling back to Mukacevo, the city where she was born. My husband and I made this amazing journey for her, and this is an integral part of Gypsy Music Street.
Roberta wrote: "Hi,I did read your rules and see where you are allowing authors to post their books on this discussion board. If there is a misunderstanding, please let me know and then I'll apologize!
I recentl..."
Sounds fascinating.
Just got back from New York. While there I went to the Jewish Book Council. Heard so many interesting speakers. Now I have a long list of books to read. If you ever have a chance to go, do it!
This past week, my novel Jo Joe was published in paperback and eBook format. (It was formerly in hardbound.) It's been an energizing week, with a new harvest of reviews and interviews, starting with my presentation about "Jo Joe" at the annual Jewish Book Council conference in NYC. What I enjoyed most about the JBC was meeting my fellow authors and hearing about their books. My to-be-read list is now brimming even more.Jo Joe is a mystery of the heart about Judith Ormond, a young mixed race Jewish woman. Seventeen years earlier, violence and hatred had driven her away from the small Pocono Mountains village where she was raised by her white Christian grandparents. Now, with the death of her beloved grandmother, she must reluctantly break her vow to never return to the town she learned to hate. During the one week visit, she’s forced to deal with the white boy who cruelly broke her heart and is menaced by an old enemy who threatens new brutalities. But with her traumatic discovery of a long-buried secret, Judith finds more questions than answers about the prejudice that scarred her childhood.
Thelma, we must have been typing about JBC at the same time.
I have a novel coming out through Penguin Press next year, The Mathematician's Shiva. Description is below. But here's the real reason I'm posting. While filling out Penguin's author questionnaire, it quickly became apparent that I needed to know about key Jewish-themed book promotion events during the year. I know about the Jewish Book Network, but not much else. I'd appreciate people in the know (i.e., mavens) clueing me in on what promotion events I need to attend. Thanks for any help you can provide.Mathematician's Shiva synopsis. A genius, educated in Soviet Russia and living in Madison, Wisconsin, dies. Her family and a group of emigre mathematicians who idolize her descend upon her funeral and stay for her shiva. The result is delightful chaos. There’s math, Yiddish, Polish, Russian and Hebrew. The author decided to be nice and include some English as well.
My book The Basic Beliefs of Judaism: A Twenty-first-Century Guide to a Timeless Tradition will be published in August by Jason Aronson, Inc. Here is a link to a free excerpt: http://www.lawrencejepstein.com/wp/th...
Hi, Stuart. Mazel tov on your book. You might want to look at this post on promotion: http://www.erikadreifus.com/2013/01/a... Most of the big Jewish book festivals are plugged in to the Jewish Book Network, with member sites listed here: http://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/tour.... I have a few other events listed at http://www.erikadreifus.com/resources....
Good luck--your book sounds intriguing and I look forward to hearing more.
Stuart wrote: "I have a novel coming out through Penguin Press next year, The Mathematician's Shiva. Description is below. But here's the real reason I'm posting. While filling out Penguin's author questionnai..."
Thanks, Erika. That's very helpful!Erika wrote: "Hi, Stuart. Mazel tov on your book. You might want to look at this post on promotion: http://www.erikadreifus.com/2013/01/a...
Most of the bi..."
Stuart wrote: "I have a novel coming out through Penguin Press next year, The Mathematician's Shiva. Description is below. But here's the real reason I'm posting. While filling out Penguin's author questionnai..."This year's Jewish Book Council was last week. If your book comes out in 2014, you will be eligible to attend nexr year, so look them up. I just came back from the JBC and it was a great experience.
If anyone has a memoir out, I have decided to devote Thursdays to promoting memoirs on my blog, either with author interviews, excerpts from their books, or reviews traded with another memoir author. If you're interested, send me a message.
Sally wrote: "Aren't names fascinating?"I have loved researching my family name TRUPP. We suspect that the name was adopted sometime around the 1600's. The family is said to be descendants of the priestly Levite tribe and therefore would have been "Kohanim." The theory is that they adopted the name Trupp per Catherine the Great's edict, when they immigrated from the Lithuanian area to the Ukraine. Some of the research I've come up with is rather interesting. Trupp in Russian means corpse and we know that a few family members were royal artisans who made the ceremonial coffins for the nobility. Based on the Hebrew spelling, one might think the name was Trop, the cantillation marks for chanting for the Torah (the bible). One or two family members were known to be cantors (chazanim). The most probable is that the family immigrated from the Lithuanian town of Trupy, previously called Traupis, and took on a similar name. This stuff is definitely fascinating to me!
Hi Folks:I hope this is the right place to post this. I thought you might want to know that a Goodreads Giveaway for my novel Jo Joe was just started; it will end June 18th.
Here are the specifics:
"Jo Joe" is a mystery of the heart about Judith Ormond, a young mixed race Jewish woman. Seventeen years earlier, violence and hatred had driven her away from the small Pocono Mountains village where she was raised by her white Christian grandparents. Now, with the death of her beloved grandmother, she must reluctantly break her vow to never return to the town she learned to hate. During the one week visit, she’s forced to deal with the white boy who cruelly broke her heart and is menaced by an old enemy who threatens new brutalities. But with her traumatic discovery of a long-buried secret, Judith finds more questions than answers about the prejudice that scarred her childhood. A compelling, beautifully crafted story, with richly drawn, intriguing characters.
http://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/ent...
Dov, some impressive headline writing. I must admit that I have difficulties with headlines. As my friend Steve Rosenbaum (a fellow writer) once said to me about Twitter, "It takes me 140 characters to clear my throat."
I don't think any author is truly comfortable with the marketing side of things, but publishers have been pushing us to it for decades. "What is your platform?" is part of the negotiations for any book contract.
However, I'm comfortable with Facebook, for the simple reason it doesn't feel like marketing to me. I'm there to make connections and have interesting conversations. And I've connected with some very interesting people, indeed.
On the other hand, I don't really believe that social media will result in that many book sales. The trick is to get strangers to be aware of our books. Friends, family and acquaintances just don't add up to that many readers. I can only hope that folks will open my books, read a few pages. Then, they'll be hooked and want to continue.
So, your headline idea is great... at least, if a person is as good as you are at writing headlines. It made me want to open your books to see where the headlines were leading.
A new piece of Jewish folklore, a sheer delight ...Everyone in Chelm's Pond is talking about the new book review in The Philadelphia Jewish Voice.
Book Review: Adirondack Mendel's Aufruf
The Philadelphia Jewish Voice
http://blog.pjvoice.com/diary/3292/
"... Love, difference, gender issues, conversion to Judaism, belief in God, honesty and over 130 Hebrew and Yiddish terms are brilliantly introduced within the 103 pages of a book that can fit in a coat pocket. There are many interpretive levels to this book, making it appropriate for reading and discussion with children as well as adults. Adirondack Mendel's Aufruf, while keeping faith with the Chelm traditions, is also moving us forward with honest inquiry on difficult topics. It is a great way to develop a useful Jewish cultural vocabulary, and as a new piece of Jewish folklore, a sheer delight. ..."
~ Rabbi Goldie Milgram, The Philadelphia Jewish Voice
Read the complete review: http://blog.pjvoice.com/diary/3292/
Also: A revised edition of "A Guide to Chelm’s Pond for Teachers and Discussion Leaders" is available as a free download at http://www.chelmspond.com
Zayt gezunt!
Sandor Schuman
www.chelmspond.com
sschuman@exedes.com
To Sing Away the Darkest Days – Poems Re-imagined from Yiddish Folksongs, a new poetry collection by Norbert Hirschhorn, has now been published.From the reviews:
Listen to these very free, flavourful variations of Yiddish songs. The gifted fiddler of words on the rooftop is the doctor-poet Norbert Hirschhorn seemingly painted by Chagall. The tunes he plays are Heine-like, humorously wry or bitter-sweet. Be seated. – Dannie Abse
Ludic and learned , comic and tragic, Norbert Hirschhorn’s ‘versions’ of Yiddish lyrics dress a poet’s unique imagination, humor, insight in the garb of another tradition to tell us about the present and the past. The book’s scholarly links and literal translations add another level to our appreciation both of Hirschhorn’s achievement and of the songs themselves. – Marilyn Hacker, Chancellor, Academy of American Poets
More information is available from http://hollandparkpress.co.uk/book_de...
Twisted will be FREE Friday, June 28.In this unique collection, Uvi Poznansky brings together diverse tales, laden with shades of mystery and the macabre. There are four of them: I Am What I Am; I, Woman; The Hollow; and The One Who Never Leaves. Here, you will come into a dark, strange world, a hyper-reality where nearly everything is firmly rooted in the familiar—except for some quirky detail that twists the yarn, and takes it for a spin in an unexpected direction.
This is the reality you will see through the eyes of a ghost of a woman, trying to reclaim her name by appealing to the devil; the eyes of a clay figure of a woman, about to be fired in the kiln, longing for her Creator; the eyes of a woman in the midst of a free fall, about to become a ghost; and the eyes of a feline creature with cracked fangs, trying in vain to resign herself, by hook and by crook, to being locked. These characters explore their identity, and challenge their fate.
Inspired by her art, by quotes from literature and the bible, and by the author’s professional career, these tales come from different times and places. Yet all of them share one thing in common: an unusual mind, one that is twisted. So prepare yourself: keep the lights on.
A Favorite Son will be FREE Friday, June 28.This story is a present-day twist on the biblical story of Jacob and his mother Rebecca plotting together against the elderly father Isaac, who is lying on his deathbed, in order to get their hands on the inheritance, and on the power in the family. This is no old fairy tale. Its power is here and now, in each one of us.
Listening to Yankle telling his take on events, we understand the bitter rivalry between him and his brother. We become intimately engaged with every detail of the plot, and every shade of emotion in these flawed, yet fascinating characters. He yearns to become his father's favorite son, seeing only one way open to him, to get that which he wants: deceit.
"What if my father would touch me," asks Yankle. In planning his deception, it is not love for his father, nor respect for his age that drives his hesitation--rather, it is the fear to be found out.And so--covering his arm with the hide of a kid, pretending to be that which he is not--he is now ready for the last moment he is going to have with his father.
Samuel Roth, Infamous Modernist has won the American Booksellers Foundation for Freedom of Expression Book of the Month award for May. Roth was a man with an uncanny ability to recognize good contemporary writing and make it accessible to popular audiences. His story is that of a man who struggled with the moral quandaries of literary censorship in the mid-twentieth century, while trying to reconcile the lucrative act of disseminating provocative erotic works and his own Judaism. “Speaks very importantly and convincingly about American-Jewish identity, censorship, modern publishing, and twentieth-century literature. --Mary Dearborn, author of _The Happiest Man Alive: A Biography of Henry Miller_The book is available at the discount price of $30. Jay A GertzmanSamuel Roth, Infamous Modernist See http://members.authorsguild.net/jgert...
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I am looking for books of poetry to review that are Jewish or by a Jew and in some way Americana for Museum of Americana. send email to our Facebook page or contact me through my other magazine, Blue Lyra Review.
I'm really thrilled with this review and Five Stars from Reader's Favorite:Please check it out and LIKE! :-)
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M. wrote: "poetry not nf, Mirta"Hi. I was just posting an announcement on this thread. I didn't mean to reply to your poetry request. Sorry!
AFTER ANATEVKA: Tevye in Palestine follows Sholom Aleichem’s timeless character, Tevye the milkman, as he moves his family from Russia to Palestine. Tevye, the wisecracking, Bible-quoting man of God, tells the story of his family’s new life against the backdrop of the conflict between Jews and Arabs in the Holy Land prior to the establishment of the State of Israel.In AFTER ANATEVKA, Tevye decides to take his wife and three youngest daughters (the three eldest remain in Russia with their husbands) to live on a kibbutz where he must adjust to a secular lifestyle and struggle with the tension between the kibbutzniks’ “religion” of labor and his Jewish beliefs.
The clash between tradition and life in Palestine manifests itself in Tevye’s relationship with his daughters, who become assimilated in the kibbutz culture.
For Tevye's wife, Golde, the most important thing in life is keeping her family together. . Despite the time and distance apart, Golde dreams that the family will someday be reunited.
AFTER ANATEVKA is set against the backdrop of the Zionist conflict with the Arabs.
Millions of people around the world are familiar with the stories of Sholom Aleichem from the movie and play, Fiddler on the Roof, which was an amalgamation of stories about Tevye and his family. The author wrote other stories involving Tevye, however, which were not in Fiddler. AFTER ANATEVKA is inspired by one of those stories, “Tevye Goes to Palestine.”
Hi peeps!I'm now looking for some beta/proof readers for my story set in the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII.
It's called Saying Goodbye to Warsaw, is 64k words long and centres around a Jewish family who are thrown into the ghetto along with all the other Polish families.
The story covers their daily struggles against starvation, brutality, and anti-Semitism, along with the ghetto uprising and the differences between the Jewish inhabitants themselves.
I'll be ready to send it out within the next week or so, so anyone interested in helping out can either leave their email address below or email me direct on mcargill79@gmail.com
I'm not necessarily looking for WWII experts or anything like that - as long as you're interested in reading something about this, then that's fine. Even those who don't know anything about the Warsaw Ghetto are welcome to help out.
I can throw in a free paperback copy of one of my books for those that sign up and go through with it.
My new book is The Lost Synagogues of Manhattan, published by Avotaynu. It features 80+ former synagogue buildings throughout Manhattan, Staten Island and Governors Island. It connects history, religion, urban studies, real estate, architecture and more. These buildings are now churches, private residences, businesses and non-profits. The book is part of a trilogy, with earlier editions on Brooklyn (2009) and the Bronx/Queens (2011). www.avotaynu.com
Ellen wrote: "My new book is The Lost Synagogues of Manhattan, published by Avotaynu. It features 80+ former synagogue buildings throughout Manhattan, Staten Island and Governors Island. It connects history, rel..."Sounds fascinating.
Hi Everyone, I am an author. Most of my books are set during the Holocaust. My novel "All My Love, Detrick," is my most popular. It is the story of a romance between a Jewish girl and a German boy set in Berlin during the Nazi occupation. I've had many requests for a sequel and am working on one. If anyone has read my book and would be interested in beta reading the sequel, please let me know. My email is rkagan4@aol.com Thanks so much, Roberta Kagan
Two ebooks! You cannot beat this price...FREE
When?
08/08/2013-08/09/2013
What?
Twisted fantasy
A Favorite Son Historical Fiction, Biblical Fiction
Don't wait--get them now!
My new book, "The Basic Beliefs of Judaism: A Twenty-first-Century Guide to a Timeless Tradition," has just been published. The book provides an organized, accessible, and systematic explanation and analysis of the central Jewish articles of faith. For more information, see my website, http://www.lawrencejepstein.com
Thank you for the opportunity to list these books with you. I only just discovered the wonderful group.I have three books to announce. One has been out for a few months now as an ebook (ePub and Kindle) but is now coming out in paperback from Smithcraft Press.
Songs from the Well is a Songs from the Well: A Memoir of Love and Grief
Yom Kippur as Manifest in a Approaching Dorsal Fin is the second. Essays, poetry, creative non-fiction and narratives. Some of the pieces I am delighted to say have been used in discussions in scholarly journals in Bible and Translation, especially in discussions of the kaddish, but also in the intersection of Judaism and Buddhism as well as faith in modern life. The book has been well received by literati and scholars so I am rather proud of it. Paperback, ePub and Kindle.
Yom Kippur as Manifest in an Approaching Dorsal FinThe last is a short story. Ezekiel's Wheel. An award winner. Qabalist/Sci-fi/Horror. Kindle only, for now.
Ezekiel's Wheel
Thank you,
Adam
My latest book is now available! Hurrah!Set in the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II, it’s a story about the struggle for survival that the Jews had to endure every single day. At the hands of their Nazi tormentors they battled against starvation, disease, and deportations to concentration camps… until some of them decided to fight back.
It's available in ebook and paperback formats, and any reviewers/modmins are welcome to use the Smashwords code below to bag themselves a free copy.
Amazon UK - Kindle and Paperback
Amazon US - Kindle and Paperback
Smashwords - Code for a free copy is SB55G
Like any girl who is loved by her family, Abigail Nussbaum loves to chase butterflies, enjoys lying on her back looking for shapes in the clouds, and happily teaches young children to make daisy chains.
In the eyes of certain people, however, Abigail has committed a heinous crime. The year is 1940; the place is Poland; Abigail happens to be Jewish.
Along with half a million other Jews, Abigail and her family are evicted from their home and forced to live in the bombed out ruins of Warsaw, the Polish capital.
Although a handful decide to fight back, is the uprising strong enough to save Abigail’s spirit?
NEED TO LAUGH OUT LOUD?SAVING DR. BLOCK is a coming-of-age/caper that takes place in Kansas City in 1963, a hybrid of James Bond and The Wonder Years.
Twelve-year-old Howard Block has a lot on his mind. If being bullied in gym class every Tuesday and Thursday, an overprotective mother, and the stress of preparing for his upcoming Bar Mitzvah weren’t enough, Howard’s father has just been named in a fraudulent medical malpractice suit.
Inspired by a new movie sensation, the British secret agent James Bond, Howard recruits best friends Irwin “Stinky” Devinki and Mike Hunsacker for a crack undercover team to thwart the psychiatrist villain Chadwick Huntley and his patient /accomplice Hannah Stringer. Like 007, Howard learns there’s always a female involved, which doesn’t make the mission to save Dr. Block any easier.
This touching and often hilarious caper follows Howard’s journey to self-discovery and manhood during an era of cultural divides between Jew and Gentile, black and white, and father and son.
This is my sixth published book, but the first I have published as an INDIE (through Amazon on Kindle and as a trade paperback), and the first for me with Jewish themes. Agents found it "adorable" and "wonderfully funny," but ultimately passed on it, dismissing it as "SMALL. PERIOD. ETHNIC." YES it is!
There's a Goodreads giveaway for three copies of my book, THE COLOR OF LIGHT, going on right now! Go sign up! http://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
A movie script has been recently derived from Dave Longeuay's novel entitled "Rebirth" about the establishment of Israel in 1948.Rebirth is slated as a mainstream film to entertain and educate the world about the great accomplishments of Israel. The script is not in documentary form and this makes Rebirth the only motion picture designed to attract a wider range of audiences who are not familiar with the facts of Israel's establishment.
Logline: Based on actual events the “Rebirth Trilogy” chronicles intrigue, espionage and anti-Semitism with characters who progress through the precarious events that lead to Israel’s rebirth in 1948 and continue through Israel’s present day. The unrelenting pursuits of history’s most persecuted race reveals the ultimate test of their human spirit triumphing to reestablish Israel after 2,000 years of desolation, within the backdrop of a passionate war-torn love story.
Different than a Holocaust story, Rebirth is an "on-the-scenes" drama about survivors rebirthing a lost nation against impossible odds. The fresh, original and accurate scenes have all the elements to entertain today's choosy audience. A-list actors are currently receiving the script for review.
Please visit Rebirth's website: www.rebirthofisrael.com and 90 second book trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aaCj8... (Preview) to learn more about this project.
This is the last day to enter to win one of 3 free copies in a GoodReads giveaway.THE COLOR OF LIGHT,
by Helen Maryles Shankman
http://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
NEW YORK CITY, 1992. At the American Academy of Classical Art, popular opinion has it that the school’s handsome and mysterious founder, Raphael Sinclair, is a vampire. It is a rumor Rafe does nothing to dispel.
Scholarship student Tessa Moss has long dreamed of the chance to study at Rafe’s Academy. But she is floundering amidst the ups and downs of a relationship with egotistical art star Lucian Swain.
Then, one of Tessa’s sketches catches Rafe’s attention: a drawing of a young woman in 1930s clothing who is covering the eyes of a child. The suitcase at her feet says Wizotsky. Sofia Wizotsky, the love of Rafe’s life, was lost during the Holocaust.
Or was she? Rafe suspects Tessa may be the key to discovering what really happened.
As Rafe finds excuses to interact with Tessa, they cannot deny their growing attraction to one another. It is an attraction forbidden by the Academy Board and disapproved of by anyone familiar with Rafe’s playboy reputation and Tessa’s softhearted innocence.
But Tessa senses the truth: despite his wealth, his women, and his townhouse filled with rare and beautiful treasures, Rafe is a haunted man…for reasons that have nothing to do with the rumors they whisper about him at school.
Intensely romantic and deeply moving, The Color of Light blends fact and fantasy in an unforgettable tale of art and passion, love and war, guilt and forgiveness, spanning the New York art scene, high-fashion magazine publishing, the glittering café society of pre-World War II Paris, and the evil stalking the back roads of Nazi-occupied Europe.
My latest book, published by Serving House Books, has been receiving good responses from readers who share in my wonderful discovery of a Jewish heritage -- a secret kept from me for most of my life. My mother was adopted--a Jewish baby born on the Lower East Side of New York City and welcomed as a toddler into the home of a German Catholic widow in the Bronx. My mother could never tell the true story. I am thrilled to share details of the lives of Minnie, my Jewish grandmother, and Margaretha, my German grandmother. Shalom to both!
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