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Welcome to the website of Dr. Nora Gold!

 

 Nora Gold, the creator and editor of the online literary journal Jewish Fiction .net, writes fiction, does academic and professional work, and engages in community activism. Feel free to explore whichever of these interest you most. You can also email Dr. Gold. Thank-you for visiting her website! 

 

Gold's novel, Fields of Exile, about anti-Israelism in the academe, will be published next year by Dundurn Press. 

 

Join Nora Gold, Martin Levin, Cary Fagan and Beverley Slopen at the Toronto Jewish Literary Festival when  Jewish Fiction .net and the Koffler Centre co-present (on June 5) "Writing and Publishing Jewish Fiction: Past, Present and Future." 

 

"Jewish Fiction .net and Nora Gold Both Thriving" - Enjoy this recent article from the Canadian Jewish News.

 

On April 9, 2013, Dr. Gold gave a lecture at McGill University, sponsored by the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP), on her research on Jewish girls and their experiences of antisemitism: "I Don't Know Why They Hate Us - I Don't Think We Did Anything Bad To Hurt Them." Enjoy this vimeo of that event.

 

 

 

You can now read Nora Gold's novella, "Flesh," online, as a Wattpad "featured" story.

 

On February 5-8, 2013 in Jerusalem, Dr. Gold participated in two panels at the exciting Kisufim Conference on Jewish Writers and Poets

 

 

Above: Panel on Jewish fiction and poetry in English.

Left to right: Robert Pinsky, Nora Gold, Marcia Falk, Nathan Englander, Joshua Cohen.

 

Below: Panel on Jewish literary journals produced in Hebrew, Russian, and English.

Left to right: Bambi Sheleg (Eretz Acheret), Nora Gold (Jewish Fiction .net), Hava Pinhas-Cohen (Director of Kisufim; poet).

 

 

 

On June 6, 2012, Jewish Fiction .net celebrated its 2nd birthday with a wonderful evening of readings by Nora Gold and eminent authors Morley Torgov and George Jonas, at the Jewish Book Festival in Toronto.

To read Jewish Fiction .net's current issue:

 

Photo: Dr. Gold with George Jonas and Morley Torgov

 

UJA Federation/Canadian Jewish Congress interviews Nora Gold: 

 

Watch two half-hour TV interviews with Nora Gold on Dr. Rachael Turkienicz' TV show, Uncommon Ground (CTS). In the first interview, Dr. Gold discusses her personal background, her research, her film, her activism, and her experience in social work. In the second interview, she focusses on her writing, activism, and spiritual life.

 

Enjoy Jewish Girl Power, Gold's 13-minute film about what it is like growing up Jewish and female at the beginning of the 21st century.