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Miryam Sivan, "Make it Concrete" (Cuidono Press, 2019)

Miryam Sivan, "Make it Concrete" (Cuidono Press, 2019)

FromNew Books in Jewish Studies


Miryam Sivan, "Make it Concrete" (Cuidono Press, 2019)

FromNew Books in Jewish Studies

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Length:
35 minutes
Released:
Jul 9, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

For twenty years, 47-year-old Isabel Toledo has been ghostwriting the stories of Holocaust survivors. It's the mid 1990's, Isabel is divorced from the father of her three children and in precarious relationships with three different men. Now, for the first time since she began ghosting, she’s having trouble finishing a book. This Holocaust survivor’s story brings up the angst she feels about not knowing how her own mother survived the war. And how much of Isabel’s inability to love just one man comes from the trauma of being raised by broken parents, also divorced?Miryam Sivan is the author of Make it Concrete (Cuidono Press, 2019). She is a former New Yorker who has lived in Tel Aviv for over 20 years. Miryam teaches literature and writing at the University of Haifa and has published scholarly work on numerous Israeli authors and American writers Cynthia Ozick, James Baldwin, and Jane Bowles. Her short fiction has appeared in various journals in the US and UK, and two of her short stories were adopted for the stage in London and New York. A collection, ANAFU and Other Stories, was published by Cuidono Press in 2014.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Released:
Jul 9, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

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