Dvora Waysman
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Dvora Waysman is an Australian Israeli author.
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Biography
Dorothy Opas (later Dvora Waysman) was born in Melbourne, Australia. She made aliyah to Israel in 1971 with her husband and four children.[1] The family settled in Jerusalem
Her writings are syndicated worldwide in over 20 publications.[2] Waysman is a contributor to The Jewish Press. Her topics include travel-related, family life experiences and Jewish holidays. Examples from her knowledge of Jewish History are often part of what she writes.[3] Waysman has taught creative writing and journalism for three decades.[4]
Waysman's novel The Pomegranate Pendant was made into a movie in 2009.[5] It premiered at the Jerusalem Film Festival in 2012.[6]
Awards and recognition
Waysman was the 1981 [7] recipient of the "For Jerusalem" citation for her fiction, poems and features about the city of Jerusalem, and has won the Seeff Award for Best Foreign Correspondent in 1988.[8] In 2014, the movie based on her book, The Golden Pomegranate, won the Shabazi Prize for Literature and Art.[9]
Published works
Books
- In A Good Pasture, ISBN 965-7344-58-1, Mazo Publishers, Nov. 2008
- Seeds Of The Pomegranate, ISBN 965-7344-20-4, Mazo Publishers
- The Pomegranate Pendant, ISBN 965-7344-21-2, Mazo Publishers, Jan. 2007
- Esther, A Jerusalem Love Story, ISBN 1-55874-822-9, Health Communications
- Jewish Detective Stories For Kids
- My Jewish Days of the Week, Hachai Publishing. Artwork by Melanie Schmidt.[10]
Short stories
- "Dorothy's Diary"
References
- ↑ http://www.powells.com/biblio/61-9781558748224-0
- ↑ http://www.wholefamily.com/about60plus/author_pages/dvora_waysman.html
- ↑ ex. Her Shabbat In Shiloh, about visiting a married daughter who, with eight children, has lived there for the past 16 years, weaves in Joshua's conquest, Tu B'Av, a battle in the 11th century BCE against the Philistines, and the 1970s.
- ↑ http://www.pitspopany.com/Wpages/Authors/Waysman.htm
- ↑ The Jewish Press, Aug. 7, 2009, p. 4
- ↑ A plaque for a ‘Pomegranate’
- ↑ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Five-Towns/message/2085
- ↑ http://www.aish.com/f/hotm/48931827.html
- ↑ A plaque for a ‘Pomegranate’
- ↑ It's a picture book. Schmidt's bio can be found at http://hachai.com/bios.html
- Year of birth missing
- Living people
- Australian emigrants to Israel
- Australian Jews
- Australian women journalists
- Australian women novelists
- Israeli Jews
- Israeli people of Australian-Jewish descent
- Israeli women journalists
- Israeli women novelists
- Jewish Australian writers
- Jewish women writers
- Writers from Melbourne
