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Nora Gold

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Nora Gold
File:Nora Gold.jpg
BornMontreal, Quebec, Canada
OccupationNovelist, associate professor, activist
LanguageEnglish
ResidenceToronto and Jerusalem
Education
GenreContemporary literature
Notable works
  • Fields of Exile
  • Marrow: And Other Stories
Notable awards
  • Canadian Jewish Book Award
  • Canadian Jewish Literary Award
  • Danuta Gleed Literary Award
SpouseDavid Solomon Weiss
Website
www.noragold.com

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Nora Gold (born 1952 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian author and the founder and editor of Jewish Fiction .net.[1][2][3] Previously, she was an associate professor of social work.

Early life and education

Gold grew up in Montreal, Quebec, the daughter of the late Alan B. Gold, former chief justice of the Superior Court of Quebec, and Lynn Lubin Gold, a teacher of English literature at Dawson College.[4] Gold holds a bachelor of social work from McGill University and a master's degree and doctorate in social work from the University of Toronto.[5] She received seven funded research grants, two from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada[6] and two from the Halbert Centre for Canadian Studies for international Canada–Israel collaborations.[7]

Career

Literary

Gold's first book, Marrow and Other Stories,[8] was released in 1998 by Warwick Publishing. It received a Canadian Jewish Book Award[9] and was shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award. In 2014, Dundurn Press released Gold's first novel, Fields of Exile,[10] which dealt with the subjects of anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism.[11] It was reviewed in Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues[12] by Goldie Morgentaler. It won the 2015 Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Best Novel.[13] Gold's second novel and third book, The Dead Man,[14] was published in 2016 through Inanna Publications.[15] It received international notice[16][17] as well as a Translation Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts. In 2019, The Dead Man was published as Ha’ish Hamet in Hebrew. It was launched on August 14, 2019 at the home of Deborah Lyons, the Canadian ambassador to Israel.[18]

Gold is the founding editor-in-chief of Jewish Fiction .net, an online journal that publishes international Jewish fiction, either written in English or translated into English from different languages and other countries.[19][20]

Gold is also the founder and coordinator of the Wonderful Women Writers Series at Toronto Public Library (Deer Park branch).

Social activism

Gold is a community activist focused on organizations working in support of a progressive, socially just Israel. Gold co-founded the New Israel Fund of Canada (NIFC)[21] in 1982, an international organization committed to furthering pluralism, civil rights, democracy, and social equality in Israel. In 1988, Gold co-founded Canadian Friends of Givat Haviva,[22] a charity that promotes tolerance and mutual understanding between Jewish and Arab youth in Israel.[4] Gold founded JSpaceCanada[23] in 2011, in order to provide Canadians with an alternative to both the extreme pro-Israel right and the extreme anti-Israel left. Gold has been formally recognized by the Toronto Jewish Community as an Outstanding Volunteer.

Academic

From 1990 to 2000, Gold was a tenured associate professor of social work at McMaster University. Gold left full-time academia in 2000 to focus more time on her literary career. From 2000 to 2018 (the year it closed) Gold was affiliated with the OISE/University of Toronto[24] Centre for Women's Studies in Education, first as an associate scholar and then as its writer-in-residence.[25]

Personal life

Gold is married to David Solomon Weiss, younger brother of the rabbi Avi Weiss,[4] and together they have a son, Joseph Weissgold. The couple are not Orthodox but consider themselves traditional and egalitarian. They divide their time between Toronto and Jerusalem.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "About Jewish Fiction .net". Jewish Fiction .net. Retrieved 3 October 2014.
  2. ↑ "Proliferating Jewish Fiction ONline". Forward. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  3. ↑ "JEWISHFICTION.NET AND NORA GOLD BOTH THRIVING". The Canadian Jewish News. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Posner, Michael (July 13, 2014) "Leftist Canadian Author Explains Her Slow Drift to the Right", The Times of Israel. Retrieved January 28, 2020.
  5. ↑ "Dr. Nora Gold". Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  6. ↑ "Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Awards Engine Search". Retrieved 10 January 2020. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  7. ↑ "Dr. Nora Gold, Professional Work". Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  8. ↑ Gold, Nora (1998). Marrow and Other Stories. Toronto: Warwick Publishing. ISBN 978-1894020312. Search this book on
  9. ↑ "Jewish Book Awards". Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  10. ↑ Gold, Nora (2014). Fields of Exile. Toronto: Dundurn Press. ISBN 978-1459721463. Search this book on
  11. ↑ "The silent bystanders in the war against the Jews". Israel National News. Retrieved 2020-02-04.
  12. ↑ Morgentaler, Goldie (2015). "Review of the book Fields of Exile, by Nora Gold". Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues. 28: 163–166 – via Project Muse.
  13. ↑ "Canadian Jewish Literary Awards". Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  14. ↑ Gold, Nora (2016). The Dead Man. Toronto: Inanna Publishing. ISBN 978-1771332613. Search this book on
  15. ↑ Arnold, Janice; Reporter, Staff (2016-04-04). "Polish author opens up about her hidden Jewish past". The Canadian Jewish News. Retrieved 2020-02-04.
  16. ↑ "Top 10 Books of 2017". Left on a Shelf. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  17. ↑ Bloshteyn, Maria. "Travels Across Uncomfortable Terrain: Nora Gold's The Dead Man". Los Angeles Review of Books. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  18. ↑ "Compassion vs. law". The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com. Retrieved 2020-02-04.
  19. ↑ Cashman (August 15, 2019). "Compassion vs. law". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved Feb 3, 2020.
  20. ↑ Ghert-Z, Renee. "Got a Jewish novel in your drawer? Now might be the time to pull it out". www.timesofisrael.com. Retrieved 2020-02-04.
  21. ↑ "New Israel Fund of Canada". Retrieved 14 January 2020. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  22. ↑ "Canadian Friends of Givat Haviva". Canadian Friends of Givat Haviva. Retrieved 14 January 2020. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  23. ↑ "Jspace Canada". Retrieved 14 January 2020. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  24. ↑ "Centre for Women's studies in Education". OISE University of Toronto. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)[permanent dead link]
  25. ↑ "Dr. Nora Gold announced as Writer-in-Residence". OISE University of Toronto. Archived from the original on 2017-10-01. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)


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