Listen "Meryl Ain chats with Nora Gold, editor of JewishFiction.net, about Jewish literature and also Nora's books"
Episode Synopsis
Meryl chats with Nora Gold about JewishFiction.net, the prestigious online literary journal, which she founded and is the editor-in-chief. In addition, they discuss her three books, The Dead Man, Fields of Exile, and Marrow and Other Stories. They also talk about wide-ranging topics related to literature, including the definition of “a Jewish book”.
Nora is a prize-winning writer and the author of three books: Marrow and Other Stories (winner of a Canadian Jewish Book Award), Fields of Exile (winner of the 2015 Canadian Jewish Literary Award), and The Dead Man (published in 2016, which was awarded a Canada Council Translation Grant and was published in Hebrew).
She is also the founder and editor-in-chief of Jewish Fiction.net, a prestigious online literary journal, that publishes Jewish-themed fiction from around the world, either written in English or translated into English from 18 languages. To date, Jewish Fiction.net has published 500 works of fiction that were never before published in English, including fiction by eminent authors like Elie Wiesel. Jewish Fiction .net has readers in 140 countries.
Nora holds a PhD from the University of Toronto, and from 1990-2000 she was a tenured professor of social work with several scholarly publications to her credit. She left full-time academia in 2000 and for the next eighteen years was affiliated with the OISE/University of Toronto's Centre for Women's Studies in Education. Nora also coordinated the Wonderful Women Writers Series, housed at the Toronto Public Library.
In addition, Nora is a co-founder of three Zionist organizations in Canada and has been involved over the past thirty-five years in community work and social activism that reflects her commitment to social justice and her love of Israel.
Websites:
JewishFiction.net
www.noragold.com
Linked-In:
linkedin.com/in/dr-nora-gold-2376541a
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Nora is a prize-winning writer and the author of three books: Marrow and Other Stories (winner of a Canadian Jewish Book Award), Fields of Exile (winner of the 2015 Canadian Jewish Literary Award), and The Dead Man (published in 2016, which was awarded a Canada Council Translation Grant and was published in Hebrew).
She is also the founder and editor-in-chief of Jewish Fiction.net, a prestigious online literary journal, that publishes Jewish-themed fiction from around the world, either written in English or translated into English from 18 languages. To date, Jewish Fiction.net has published 500 works of fiction that were never before published in English, including fiction by eminent authors like Elie Wiesel. Jewish Fiction .net has readers in 140 countries.
Nora holds a PhD from the University of Toronto, and from 1990-2000 she was a tenured professor of social work with several scholarly publications to her credit. She left full-time academia in 2000 and for the next eighteen years was affiliated with the OISE/University of Toronto's Centre for Women's Studies in Education. Nora also coordinated the Wonderful Women Writers Series, housed at the Toronto Public Library.
In addition, Nora is a co-founder of three Zionist organizations in Canada and has been involved over the past thirty-five years in community work and social activism that reflects her commitment to social justice and her love of Israel.
Websites:
JewishFiction.net
www.noragold.com
Linked-In:
linkedin.com/in/dr-nora-gold-2376541a
Copyright by Authors on the Air Global Radio Network
#AuthorsOnTheAir #AuthorsOnTheAirGlobalRadioNetwork #AOTA #NoraGold #JewishFiction #JewishFiction.Net #ShortStories #JewishBooks #JewishNovels #TheDeadMan #FieldsOfExile #MarrowandOtherStories #Fiction #Reading #Literature #LiteraryFiction #DiverseJewishVoices #StoriesByJewishWomen #Zionism #PeopleoftheBook #MerylAin #TheTakeawayMen #Sequel #ShadowsWeCarry #LetsTalkJewishBooks #JewsLoveToRead #Canada #UniversityOfToronto
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