About The Editor - Dr. Nora Gold

Nora Gold writes fiction, does academic and professional work, and engages in community activism. Her first book, Marrow and Other Stories, won the Louis Lockshin Prize for Short Fiction, one of the Canadian Jewish Book Awards, and also was short-listed for the Danuta Gleed Award, a prize for the best first short story collection in Canada. Prior to the publication of the book, the title story, "Marrow," won a cash-and-book prize at the Eden Mills Fiction Contest, and was also included in Vital Signs, an anthology of promising new Canadian writers. Since then, Gold has completed her first novel, Exile, about the anti-Israelism in the Canadian academe, and is now at work on her second novel.

In addition to her literary writing, Dr. Gold has scholarly publications to her credit, as well as seven funded research grants (two from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada), and a PhD from University of Toronto. Previously a tenured professor, she is currently an Associate Scholar at the Centre for Women's Studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto (OISE/UT), and an Associate Member of the Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto. Dr. Gold (who holds both Israeli and Canadian citizenship) has been constantly involved over the past 30 years in community work and social action initiatives, reflecting her commitment to social justice and her love of Israel. For more information about Dr. Gold, visit her website at www.noragold.com

About The Advisory Council

Jewish Fiction .net is honoured by the support of its wonderful Advisory Council: 


Ellen Frankel

Dr. Ellen Frankel currently works as a freelance writer, editor, and lecturer. After heading The Jewish Publication Society for eighteen years as CEO and Editor in Chief, she now serves as its first Editor Emerita. She is the author of nine books, including The Classic Tales; The Encyclopedia of Jewish Symbols; The Five Books of Miriam: A Woman’s Commentary on the Torah; The Jewish Spirit; The Illustrated Hebrew Bible, two collections of contemporary stories for Jewish young people; and most recently, The JPS Illustrated Children’s Bible. In addition to her books, Frankel wrote the libretto for Andrea Clearfield’s "The Golem Psalms," and is currently at work on two commissioned opera libretti. Frankel travels widely, speaking at synagogues, JCC’s, schools, and conferences.

Joseph Kertes studied English at York University and the University of Toronto, where he was encouraged in his writing by Irving Layton and Marshall McLuhan. Kertes founded Humber College's creative writing and comedy programs. He is currently Humber's Dean of Creative and Performing Arts and is a recipient of numerous awards for teaching and innovation. His first novel, Winter Tulips, won the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour. Boardwalk, his second novel, and two children's books, The Gift and The Red Corduroy Shirt, met with critical acclaim. His latest novel, Gratitude, has won a Canadian National Jewish Book Award and the U.S. National Jewish Book Award for Fiction.

Michael P. Kramer is director of the Anne Shachter-Smith Memorial Project in Literature and former director of the Shaindy Rudoff Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. He is the author of Imagining Language in America (Princeton), editor of New Essays on Seize the Day (Cambridge), and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature and Modern Jewish Literatures: Intersections and Boundaries (Pennsylvania). He is the founding editor of MAGGID: A Journal of Jewish Literature (Toby Press), co-organizer of Kisufim: The Jerusalem Conference of Jewish Writers, and is currently working on a translation of S.Y. Agnon's And The Crooked Shall Be Made Straight.

Linda/Leye Lipsky teaches Yiddish Modernist Poetry, among other courses, at York University in Toronto. She is interested in the crosscurrents of literature and the visual arts, poetry and philosophy. Her doctoral dissertation was on Delmore Schwartz's engagement with Husserlian phenomenology in his poetry and poetics.

Born in Bukovina, Romania. Deported as a child to the concentration camp in Transnistria and persecuted by the Communist dictatorship in Romania. Left Romania in 1986, lived one year in West Berlin and moved to the US in 1988. Author of prose and essays translated in more than 20 languages, laureate of several international literary prizes, (among them the Mc Arthur and Guggenheim Fellowship Awards, the Italian international Nonino Prize for literature, the Prix Medicis Etrangere), member of the Berlin Academy of Art, decorated with Legion of Honor by the French government. Professor of European Culture and writer in residence at Bard College.

Thane Rosenbaum

Thane Rosenbaum is a novelist, essayist, and law professor, the author of the novels, The Golems of Gotham, Second Hand Smoke, and the novel-in-stories, Elijah Visible. He is also the author of the forthcoming young adult novel, The Stranger Within Sarah Stein. His articles, reviews and essays appear frequently in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and the Huffington Post, among other national publications. He moderates an annual series of discussions on Jewish culture and politics at the 92^nd Street Y. He is the John Whelan Distinguished Lecturer in Law at Fordham Law School.

Born in Israel, published sixteen books, plays, opera libretti and TV scripts, focusing on the painful dialogue in families of Holocaust survivors. Published in the USA, Europe, and Australia. Becoming Gershona received the 1990 National Jewish Book Award in the USA. Her latest novel in English translation, And the Rat Laughed, came out recently. Among her numerous awards: The Israeli Prime Minister Award for Literature 1996, and Woman in Literature of Tel Aviv Award 2007. Her TV drama Whereabouts Unknown, about "new olim" in Israel 1949, is in the making now (Israeli 1^st Channel). Her two new books, Head on Backwards (novel) and The Backpack Fairy (children's book) will come out in 2011.

Born in Germany in 1926, Alice Shalvi was educated in England and immigrated to Israel in 1949. She is professor emerita of English Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and served as principal of Pelech Religious Experimental School for Girls, as well as founding chairwoman of the Israel Womens Network, a pioneering feminist advocacy organization.

Steve Stern was born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee. He has published a number of novels, novellas, and story collections, including The Wedding Jester, which won the National Jewish Book Award. He's been the recipient of grants from the Fulbright and Guggenheim foundations and teaches creative writing at Skidmore College in upstate New York. His latest novel is The Frozen Rabbi.

About The Copy Editor

Joyce Rappaport

Joyce Rappaport, PhD, is the Managing Editor of the Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, a ten-volume series of anthologies to be published by Yale University Press. From 2004 to 2009, she served as Copy Chief of the YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, and has been a copy editor and a developmental editor for a number of journals and academic texts.