Nora Gold
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In Sickness and In Health / Yom Kippur in a Gym
18: Jewish Stories Translated from 18 Languages
The Dead Man
Fields of Exile
Marrow and Other Stories
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Blog/Interview on
Goodreads, “Interview With An Author
” series with Lisa de Nikolits, April 30, 2020.
Brockton Writers Series blog
– Blog Feature in advance of Brockton reading, March 11, 2020.
“The Power of Jewish Music”
(in altered and abridged form) as posted in the The Jewish Book Council’s Visiting Scribe Series, May 2, 2016.
Here is the complete version of “The Power of Jewish Music.”
“The Creative Process and the Jewish Artist”
(in altered and abridged form) as posted in the The Jewish Book Council’s Visiting Scribe Series, May 4, 2016.
Here is the complete version of “The Creative Process and the Jewish Artist.”
The Forward
(The Sisterhood) – Why Is ‘Mikveh Suicide’ a Fiction Motif? (2014)
Guest blog #1 in the
Jewish Book Council’s “The Prosen People
” – Leah Goldberg, Me, and the Search for a Title for My New Book. (2014)
Guest blog #2 in the
Jewish Book Council’s “The Prosen People
” – Feeding Other Writers, and Myself. (2014)
Guest blog in
Open Book Ontario
– How Do You Choose Titles for Your Works? (2014)
Article in
The Algemeiner
– Looking at Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism From a Literary Perspective (2014)
Article
in the Toronto Star
– The Real Agenda of Israel Apartheid Week (2014)
Gold’s Blogs for “The Jewish Thinker” at
Haaretz
– 2014
‘Mikveh suicides’: A motif in fiction that says the unsayable
– November 13, 2014.
(Non-subscribers to Haaretz can read this blog here.)
What stops Jewish mothers from leading by example at shul?
– September 22, 2014.
(Non-subscribers to Haaretz can read this blog here.)
When Zionism became a dirty word
– August 27, 2014.
(Non-subscribers to Haaretz can read this blog here.)
Sirens and solidarity when rockets fly from Gaza to Israel
– July 24, 2014.
(Non-subscribers to Haaretz can read this blog here.)
Why Israeli leftists must start talking about antisemitism
– June 23, 2014.
(Non-subscribers to Haaretz can read this blog here.)
Which part of a Jewish woman’s body is ‘Jewish’- and is it modest enough?
– April 14, 2014.
(Non-subscribers to Haaretz can read this blog here.)
Attention pro-Israel leftists: Partial boycotts don’t work in the Diaspora
– March 4, 2014.
(Non-subscribers to Haaretz can read this blog here.)
What is Jewish feminist art?
– February 18, 2014.
(Non-subscribers to Haaretz can read this blog here.)
To fight academic boycotts, we must mobilize the pro-Israel left
– January 12, 2014.
(Non-subscribers to Haaretz can read this blog here.)
Book Reviews
Free as a Jew: A Personal Memoir of National Self-Liberation,
by Ruth Wisse.
The Montréal Review
, November 2021.
Strange Ways,
by Rokhl Faygenberg (translated by Robert and Golda Werman).
Nashim
,
Spring 2011.
The Four Walls of My Freedom
, by Donna Thomson.
The Literary Review of Canada
,
November 2010.
Your Sad Eyes and Unforgettable Mouth,
by Edeet Ravel.
Globe and Mail
,
November 2008.
Essays
Free as a Jew: A Personal Memoir of National Self-Liberation,
by Ruth Wisse.
The Montréal Review
, (Book review essay), November 2021.
“Rachel and Leah : A Jewish model of sisterhood” (essay). Published in
Kerem: Creative Explorations in Judaism
(2010, Issue 12).
(Read)
“Be happy it’s Adar? Not easy when Purim coincides with Israel Apartheid Week.”
Canadian Jewish News,
March 4, 2010 (The “Perspectives” essay).
(Read)