In Sickness and In Health /
Yom Kippur in a Gym

Exhilarating, hopeful, and deeply humane…”
– Rona Maynard, former Editor of Chatelaine; author of Starter Dog

In this excellent book, the writing always thrusts, compelling readers to see themselves in the characters’ frailties of body and soul and to ask themselves the questions of conscience and mortality that these novellas pose with great eloquence.
– Nomi Eve, author of Henna House; Director of the Drexel MFA in Creative Writing

18: Jewish Stories Translated from 18 Languages

Finalist, the Foreword Indies Book of the Year Award

 

Alberto Manguel:
“What a treasure!”

 

“This broad and wide-ranging anthology is a fitting ode to the ‘nearly inexhaustible richness and strength’ of the Jewish multilingual tradition.”
— Publishers Weekly

Dr. Nora Gold

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Dr. Nora Gold is the prize-winning author of five books, as well as an editor and a former professor. Her first book, Marrow and Other Stories, won a Vine Canadian Jewish Book Award and was enthusiastically received, including by Alice Munro. Her second book, the novel Fields of Exile, won the inaugural Canadian Jewish Literary Award for best novel, and was acclaimed by Ruth Wisse and Irwin Cotler. Her novel The Dead Man received glowing reviews, including in the Los Angeles Review of Books, and won a Canada Council for the Arts translation grant and was published in Hebrew. Her fourth book, 18: Jewish Stories Translated from 18 Languages, an anthology of translated works, was praised by Publishers Weekly, Cynthia Ozick, and Dara Horn; was a finalist for a Foreword Indies Award; and was featured in the New York Times Wirecutter in 2023, 2024, and 2025 as a recommended Chanukah gift. Gold’s fifth book, In Sickness and In Health/Yom Kippur in a Gym  (two novellas) received international acclaim, and was one of the five books that Hadassah Magazine chose to feature in Fall 2025.

On May 1, 2026, Gold’s sixth book will be published: the novella, Doubles. And on the same date, her first book, Marrow and Other Stories (originally published in 1998), will come out for the first time in digital format.

Dr. Gold is the founder and editor-in-chief of the prestigious online literary journal Jewish Fiction  (www.jewishfiction.com), the only English-language journal (print or online) devoted exclusively to publishing Jewish fiction. In its first 15 years, it has published 650 works (never before published in English) that were either written in English or translated into English from 22 languages.

Dr. Gold has a PhD from University of Toronto and, while a tenured professor, she conducted research in the fields of disability, child welfare, sexism, and antisemitism. After leaving her academic position to write fiction fulltime, she spent six years as the Writer-in-Residence at the Centre for Women’s Studies in Education at OISE/University of Toronto, where she created and coordinated the Wonderful Women Writers reading series, which she later hosted at the Toronto Public Library. Dr. Gold has received considerable media attention both for her books and her journal, and has appeared as a featured guest on podcasts and videocasts based in India, Australia, the United States, and Canada. She is active on social media, including Instagram and Facebook, and on LinkedIn she has over 100,000 followers.

The Dead Man

“Gold adventures in difficult emotional terrain and achieves something beautiful, transformative, and life-affirming.”
– Los Angeles Review of Books

“An ingeniously and gorgeously crafted story, radiantly musical in its rich textures. Wonderfully affecting, memorable, and original.” – Jay Neugeboren

Fields of Exile

“A brave and luminous book. I read this novel with nonstop enthralled admiration.” – Cynthia Ozick

Marrow and Other Stories

Nora Gold’s first book, Marrow and Other Stories (Warwick, 1998), won a Canadian Jewish Book Award (The Louis Lockshin Prize for Short Fiction), was shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Award, and received glowing reviews.

“Bravo!” — Alice Munro (after reading the title story, “Marrow”)

Jewish Fiction

Gold is the creator and editor of Jewish Fiction, the prestigious online literary journal that publishes first-rate Jewish-themed fiction from around the world. Jewish Fiction is currently the only English-language journal in the world devoted exclusively to publishing Jewish fiction.

The landmark anthology, 18: Jewish Stories Translated From 18 Languages, is comprised of 18 stories previously published in Jewish Fiction.

News, Reviews, Interviews, Podcasts

Pictures

Opening the first box of In Sickness and In Health/Yom Kippur in a Gym (January 30, 2024)

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