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Shabbat shalom.
Erika Dreifus is a freelance writer and book publicist. She is also the editor and publisher of The Practicing Writer, a free (and popular) e-newsletter that features opportunities and resources for fictionists, poets, and writers of creative nonfiction.
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A high-ranking Nazi’s wife and a Jewish doctor in prewar Berlin. A Jewish immigrant soldier and the German POWs he is assigned to supervise. A refugee returning to Europe for the first time just as terrorists massacre Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics. A son of survivors and the family secrets modern technology may reveal. These are some of the characters and conflicts that emerge in Quiet Americans, in stories that reframe familiar questions about what is right and wrong, remembered and repressed, resolved and unending. Portions of the proceeds from sales of Quiet Americans are being donated to The Blue Card. Quiet Americans has been named a 2012 Sophie Brody Medal Honor Title (American Library Association) and recognized as a “Notable Book” (The Jewish Journal) and “Top Book” (Shelf Unbound).
Thank you for including a mention of my guest blog at reformjudaism.org among your literary links for Shabbat. Interestingly, I first submitted a guest blog to ReformJudaism because of a mention in your Monday Markets for writers this past spring. You wrote that they were looking for favorite images of Israel and said that it was a non-paying gig. I wrote and submitted an article on traveling to Israel with children. It was published and I have been submitting guest blogs since then. Now, I just have to find some places that pay for submissions! Thank you for starting my literary career.
Ellen, thanks so much for sharing that background! Best wishes, Erika