“I am grateful for a work of fiction that honestly animates what is all too actual and true. Indeed, so far as I know, Fields of Exile is the first fictional portrayal of a situation that faces Jews everywhere in North America.”
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Nora Gold
Dr. Nora Gold is a writer, activist, and the creator and editor of the prestigious online literary journal, Jewish Fiction .net. Her first book, Marrow and Other Stories, won a Canadian Jewish Book Award; it was praised by Alice Munro, who wrote “Bravo!” after reading the title story. Gold’s Fields of Exile is the first novel about anti-Israelism on campus, and it has received enthusiastic reviews, as well as praise from Cynthia Ozick, who “read this novel with nonstop enthralled admiration,” Ruth Wisse, Phyllis Chesler, Steve Stern, Thane Rosenbaum, Ann Birstein, and Alice Shalvi, among many others.
At one time a tenured professor, Dr. Gold, is now the Writer-in-Residence and an Associate Scholar at the Centre for Women’s Studies in Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. She is also a blogger for “The Jewish Thinker” at Haaretz and the coordinator of the Wonderful Women Writers Series.
Gold is a founder (with others) of three Canadian Zionist organizations, and holds both Canadian and Israeli citizenship. For more details, visit her website at noragold.com.
