Dvora Waysman
Dvora Waysman is an Australian-Israeli author. Born Dorothy Opas in Melbourne, Victoria, Waysman made Aliyah to Israel in 1971 with her husband and four children. She is a prolific writer, with her works syndicated worldwide in over 20 publications, and is a regular contributor to The Jewish Press, where she writes on topics including travel, family life, and Jewish holidays, often drawing from her knowledge of Jewish history.
Biography
[edit]Dorothy Opas (later Dvora Waysman) was born in Melbourne, Victoria. 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
[edit]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.[6]
Published works
[edit]Books
[edit]- 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.[9]
Short stories
[edit]- "Dorothy's Diary"
References
[edit]- ^ Books, Used, New, and Out of Print Books - We Buy and Sell - Powell's. "Esther: A Jerusalem Love Story by Dvora Waysman". www.powells.com.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 12 October 2008. Retrieved 5 August 2009.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ 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.
- ^ "Pitspopany Press - Dvora Waysman (Author)". Archived from the original on 25 July 2008. Retrieved 5 August 2009.
- ^ The Jewish Press, 7 August 2009, p. 4
- ^ a b "Israel News - The Jerusalem post". www.jpost.com.
- ^ "Yahoo! Groups". groups.yahoo.com. Archived from the original on 17 July 2012.
- ^ "Mother's Day". Archived from the original on 21 December 2016. Retrieved 5 August 2009.
- ^ It's a picture book. Schmidt's bio can be found at http://hachai.com/bios.html Archived 1 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine
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