Giving a voice to the ‘unmatched’
All Sarah Lavane has ever wanted is to be seen, and to be understood. When she found herself ‘unmatched’ in an Orthodox community, she felt very misunderstood. “Over the years, my single friends and I...
View ArticleThe importance of ‘alone time’
Amidst COVID-19 lockdowns, author Kerri Sackville found herself alone. And it was something that, at first, didn’t sit comfortably. But, going through a divorce and having her coping mechanisms pulled...
View ArticlePersonal experiences of growing up
For Miriam Itzkowitz, Judaism has always been front and centre. She attended Emanuel, was very involved with Betar, and is now involved with the Australasian Union of Jewish Students (AUJS) and...
View ArticleDelving into Lees and Brodzky
Retired ophthalmic surgeon and author, Dr Henry R (Harry) Lew, has studied Australian artists, Derwent Lees and Horace Brodzky in depth for over five decades, explaining that their lives have been...
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A link to the past to look to the future
Catherine Bauer grew up listening to her father’s recollections of World War II. He grew up in Germany, close to the border with France, and like many around them, the Catholic family experienced...
View ArticleA new spin on the vampire genre
Following on from the success of her first novel Keys to my Heart, Tania Gold has written another. Telling The AJN that she always wanted to write a paranormal romance novel, when she was on maternity...
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Finding her way through the Impossible Forest
Clinical psychologist and author Doris Brett loves nothing more than reading books to her granddaughter Frankie. After reading all the classics, Brett realised the next story for Frankie would have to...
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Finding colour through the grey
Amanda Lieber (pictured) is a trained actress and drama teacher. After travelling the world, living and performing in different countries, Lieber put down roots in Australia, where she got a bit more...
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What’s behind the doll’s eyes?
According to author Leah Kaminsky, her latest novel Doll’s Eye is a love story. It’s a love story about a man and a woman, but it’s also about a love of language, in particular Yiddish, and culture....
View ArticleA pacy and action-packed time-slip adventure
Anna Ciddor has always done her own research as an author, creating books based on whatever historical period she fancied at the given time – Vikings, the Australian goldrush, pre-war Jewish Poland,...
View ArticleEveryone is welcome
Author and educator Abe Schwarz will host his annual Sukkat Shalom at East Melbourne Hebrew Congregation on Monday, October 2 at 7pm. Schwarz is very excited about this year’s attendees, in particular...
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Author learned Yiddish to present stories
Freda Hodge is a soft-spoken South African woman who holds degrees in English, Linguistics and Jewish Studies. She is fluent in Yiddish and Hebrew and has worked at the Melbourne Holocaust Museum...
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‘Not just another travelogue of Jewish suffering’
(Times of Israel) -Who runs the world? If you ask Beyonce, it’s girls. But if you dive into virtually any conspiracy theory floated in the past 200 years, one name consistently emerges: Rothschild. The...
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Third-generation impact
Elise Esther Hearst (pictured) has been working in theatre for quite a while. But when her grandmother passed away, she felt like she needed to write about the impact of the legacy of the Holocaust and...
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‘We time travel every time we read a book’
A young woman. A cult. The Scarlet Letter. Time travel. Love. Varied themes, all covered in Alice Hoffman’s new book The Invisible Hour. Hoffman is the author of more than 30 works of fiction,...
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