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Graetz, Avigail

 
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Synopsis

This family novel travels through time, written in a first person’s voice. It travels from 1999 when the heroine’s grandmother is on her deathbed to 1993 when Elisheva is still an adolescent. Her mother was away and she and her father, a conservative rabbi, found themselves hosting a strange American women that entered their home. This visit has changed their lives and only now, as the grandmother is departing the world she is brave enough to face her story and the motherhood legacy she received.

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À propos de l'auteur

Avigail Graetz was born in Israel in 1975 and grew up in Omer, a small town near Beersheba. She has a B.A in film from Tel Aviv University and a M.F.A from Ben-Gurion University in creative writing. She taught bible and Midrash from a secular critical perspective in BINA- Secular Yeshiva. She teaches about "Israeli Society as seen through Film" for the Overseas Program at Ben-Gurion University and "Mindfulness" at the University of the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herziliya. Graetz wrote four plays that were shown on stage. Her play Ona’at Devarim- “Verbal Wrongs” was featured at the Akko festival and “In Case I’m not around” which she directed as well was featured at the Israeli festival. She was awarded the PARDES Fellowship at the National Library of Israel and the Jewish National Fund-Hebrew Literature Prize (2012), both for her debut novel, A Rabbi’s Daughter. She has published several short stories, as well as poetry, and had a weekly column that integrated the “Portion of the Week” with Buddhist philosophy.

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