Australian Jewish Writers Database

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NAME	DETAILS	PUBLICATIONS
NAME	DETAILS	PUBLICATIONS
ABRAMI, Janka	1921-1993 Melbourne writer, Holocaust survivor Photo	I'd Rather be Laughing (1996) Moments (1989) Zat Izz Apples, Sir (1986)
ABRAMOVICH, Dvir	1971- Melbourne academic + writer	The Lost World of Unspoken Horrors: Aharon Appelfeld’s Holocaust Universe (2024) The New War Against the Jews: Writing from the Trenches (2021) Fragments of Hell: Israeli Holocaust Literature (2019) A Touch of Genius: Portraits and Literary Masterpieces (2018) Flashpoints: Israel, anti-Semitism and the Holocaust (2014) Hebrew Classics: A Journey Through Israel's Timeless Fiction and Poetry (Israel: Society, Culture, and History) (2012) Back to the Future: Israeli Literature of the 1980s and 1990s (2010) Testifying to the Holocaust (2008)
ADES, David	1956- Sydney-based poet	Afloat in Light (2017) Only the Questions Are Eternal (2015)
ADLER, Jacques	1927-	The Jews of Paris and the Final Solution (1987)
ADLER, Louise	1954-	The Politics Of Linking Schools And Social Service (1994)
AFTERMAN, Allen	1941-1992 American-born poet + legal academic. Lived in Australia 1967-1981	Kabbalah and Consciousness (2005) The maze rose: Poems 1970-73 (1974)
AJZENBUD, Moshe	1920-2020	Pnina (2006) Wanderers and Dreamers (1998) The Commissar Took Care (1986) Aside from several books published in Yiddish and in English translation, Ajzenbud was an active member of the Yiddish speaking community: President and Honorary Secretary of the Kadimah; first Hon Sec of the Jewish Holocaust Centre. He edited the Kadimah’s Melburner Bletter Yiddish journal, presented a long running Yiddish program on Radio 3ZZZ, + was an active, leading member of the Bund and a Yiddish teacher at the Sholem Aleichem Sunday School. Thanks to Kadimah for this summary Aleyn in Gezeml (1970) Gelebt Hinter Kratn (1956)
ALEXANDER, Goldie	1936-2020 Melbourne author	Unjust Desserts (2003) An adult murder/mystery Books for adults Books for middle grade readers Books for young adults Books for younger readers See full bibliography + awards
Ali BERG	Melbourne Co-authour with Michelle Kalus	Fancy Meeting You Here (2022) While You Were Reading (2019) The Book Ninja (2018)
AMSTERDAM, Steven	1966-	The Easy Way Out (2016) What the Family needed (2013) Things We Didn't See Coming (2010)
APPLE, Rabbi Raymond	1935-2024	Biblical people (2021) New Testament People: A Rabbi's Notes (2016) Enemies and Obsessions: More Memories and Musings (2014) Episodes and Eccentrics: More tales of The Great Synagogue (2010) Freemasonry: Studies, Speeches and Sensibilities (2010) To Be Continued: Memoirs and Musings (2010) The Great Synagogue: A History of Sydney's Big Shule (2008) Companion to the Machzor for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur Education By Degrees: Masonic Notes Eighty Days and Eighty Nights Lets Ask the Rabbi Sabbath in the Home: Songs and Prayers The Hampstead Synagogue 1892-1967 The Jewish Way: Jews and Judaism in Australia The Jews: Making Australian Society
ARKWRIGHT, Ken	1929- Perth author	Beyond Survival (2018)
ARMSTRONG, Diane	1939-	The Collaborator (2019) Winter Journey (2017) Empire Day (2015) The Voyage of their Life (2015) Nocturne (2008) Mosaic: A Chronicle of Five Generations (2001)
ATKINSON, Meera	Sydney writer Read more	Traumata (2018) Poetics of Transgenerational Trauma (2017)
ATLAS, Zygfryd	1920-	Just One Life (1999)
BAKER, Mark Raphael	1959-2023	Thirty Days: A Journey to the End of Love (2017) History on the Edge (Ed) (1997)
BAVATI, Robyn	Melbourne writer	Within These Walls (2017) Pirouette (2013) Dancing in the Dark (2011)
BEARMAN, Margaret	1966- Melbourne writer	Above the Water (2002)
BELLAMY, Ros	Writer, editor and researcher
BENJAMIN, Elana	Sydney author	My Mother's Spice Cupboard: A Journey from Baghdad to Bombay to Bondi (2012)
BEN-MOSHE, Danny	Melbourne academic, writer + filmmaker	Full list of Danny Ben Moshe publications Israel, the Diaspora and Jewish Identity (Ed) (2007)
BEN-MOSHE, Ros	Melbourne lecturer + writer	The Laughter Effect: How to Build Joy, Resilience and Positivity in Your Life (2023) Laughing at Cancer (2017)
BENNETT, Samuel (Shmuel	1919- Melbourne Yiddish writer + columnist	Chronicles of a life (1999)
BENTEL, Erica	Perth writer	Can You Crack Them? (2012) Word Games
BERGNER, Herz	1907-1970	Light and Shadow (1963)
BESSER, Nathan	1981- Sydney writer	Man in the Corner (2017)
BIDERMAN, Abraham	1924- Melbourne writer	The World of My Past (1997)
BIRMAN, Lisa	Melbourne poet + novelist, lives in Colorado + Australia	How to Walk Away (2015) For That Return Passage – a Valentine for the United States of America (2008)
BLACK, Ben	Pseudonym	Breaking Ranks – Turbulent Travels in the Promised Land (2001)
BLAY, Anna Rosner	1947- Melbourne writer	Not Paradise (2004) Sister Sister (1998 + 2012) Leo Rosner: A man of note
BLAY, Danny Rosner	1968- Melbourne author	Drive Around the World : One Family, One Car, One Year, One Planet (2013)
BLINT, Woolf	1914-	By Jeep to Freedom (1994)
BLOCH, Felicity	Melbourne writer
BLOOM, Norma	1924- Born in Melbourne, since 1960 in Hobart.	The Larger View (1972) + When I See You (1978) Widely represented in NZ and Australian literary journals and poetry anthologies. Her play, 'Ruby', was performed in several Victorian country towns in 1973.
BOAS, Bernard	1911-2011 Melbourne writer + critic	The Five Books of Boas (2002) It's Time to Rewrite the Bible (1994)
BRASCH, Rabbi Dr R	1912-2004	Star of David (1956) Rabbi Brasch's published books: Reminiscences of a Roving Rabbi The Star of David The Eternal Flame How did it Begin? Mexico - a country of contrasts The Judaic Heritage The Unknown Sanctuary How did Sports Begin? How did Sex Begin? - the sense and nonsense of the customs and traditions that have separated men and women since Adam and Eve The Supernatural and You! Strange Customs Australian Jews of Today There's a Reason for Everything! That Takes the Cake Mistakes, Misnomers,and Misconceptions
BRETT, Doris	1950- Melbourne writer + poet	The Twelfth Raven: A Memoir of Stroke, Love and Recovery (2014) In the Constellation of the Crab (1998) Looking for Unicorns (1992) More Annie Stories: Therapeutic Storytelling Techniques (1992) All Doris Brett books
BRETT, Lily	1946- New York-based writer + poet (Melbourne originally)	Things Could Be Worse (2016) Lola Bensky (2013) Uncomfortably Close (2007) You Gotta Have Balls (2006) The Auschwitz Poems (2004) Between Mexico and Poland (2002) Too Many Men (2002) In Her Strapless Dresses (2001) New York (2001) What God Wants (2000) In Full View (1997) Mud in My Tears (1997) Just Like That (1994) Unintended Consequences (1992) After the War: Poems (1990) Poland and Other Poems (1987)
BROOK, Steve	1934-2014	Smash the White Eagle! (2013) Novel For Sam (2009) Strawberries with Everything (2005) Memoir Bali Sugar (2004) McQuail (2003)
BROUS, Raphael	1982-	I am Max Lamm (2013)
BROWNE, Ashley	1965- Melbourne writer + editor	People of the Boot - the Triumphs and Tragedies of Australian Jews in Sport (2018) Blue heaven : a celebration of Carlton (Ed) (2011) Flying High : The Story of Essendon's 16 Premierships (2011) Grand Finals Volume I : 1897-1938 (2011) THE GOLDEN YEARS : Stories from Hawthorn's Greates (2011)
BUCKRICH, Judith Raphael	1950- Melbourne writer + journalist	Collins: The Story of Australia's Premier Street (2005) George Turner: A Life (1999) The Montefiore Homes: 150 Years of Care (1998)
BURSTIN, Hinde Ena	Melbourne academic + writer
CASTAN, Melissa	Melbourne academic + writer	Federal Constitutional Law: A Contemporary View (2006) The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: Cases, Commentary and Materials (2004)
CELERMAJER, Danielle		Summertime: Reflections on a vanishing future (2021)
CIDDOR, Anna	1957- Melbourne children's author	The Family with Two Front Doors (2016) Night of the Fifth Moon (2007) Stormriders (2004) Wolfspell (2003) Runestone (2002)
COHEN, Anna	Sydney author, psychologist	Taming Teens (2019) https://www.hybridpublishers.com.au/product/taming-teens-the-adolescent-years/
COHEN, Bernard	1963- Sydney writer	The Antibiography of Robert F. Menzies (2013) Hardly Beach Weather (2002) Snowdome (1998) The Blindman's Hat (1997) Paul Needs Specs (1993) Tourism (1992)
COHEN, David Phillip	1967- Brisbane author	The Hunter and other stories of men (2018) The Hunter won the 2019 Russell Prize and was shortlisted for the 2015 Dorothy Hewett Award. Disappearing off the Face of the Earth (2017) Fear of Tennis (2007)
COHEN, Trevor	1938- Melbourne author Mary MacKillop’s Jewish connection	The Greatest Gift – A 200 year Chronicle of My Australian Jewish Family (2022)
COLLINS, Alan	1928-2008 Melbourne writer	Joshua (1995) Going Home (1993) The Boys from Bondi (1987) Buy Alan Collins books from Hybrid Publishers
COLLINS, Ros	1930- Melbourne writer	Rosa - Memories with Licence (2019) Solly's Girl (2015) Buy Ros Collins books from Hybrid Publishers
CONWAY, Deborah	1959- Singer, songwriter, author	Book of Life (2023)
COOKE, Steven	Melbourne author	The Interior of Our Memories (2015)
COOPER, Leo	1922- Melbourne writer	In the shadow of the crescent : the Arabs, the Holocaust and beyond (2010) The Long Road to the Lucky Country (2005) In the Shadow of the Polish Eagle: The Poles, the Holocaust and beyond (2000) Stakhanovites - and others : the story of a worker in the Soviet Union, 1939-1946 (1994)
COWEN, Shimon David	1951 Melbourne author	Aesthetics and the Divine (2017) Engaging artists, fostering religious art
CURZON, David	1941- New-York based poet + editor	View From Jacobs Ladder: One Hundred Midrashim (1996) Modern poems on the Bible: An anthology (1994)
CYKIERT, Avraham	1926-2009 Melbourne writer + Yiddish broadcaster	The Emperor of the Ghetto is a one-man play which deals with Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, the Jewish Leader of the Ghetto of Lodz and his dilemmas in dealing with the Nazis. It was first performed at the Caulfield Arts Centre in 1993, followed by seasons at the George Fairfax Studio (Victorian Arts Centre), St Martin's, the Adelaide Fringe and Tasmania as well as performances in over seventy schools in Victoria and South Australia.
DANNON, Joanne	Melbourne writer	See the full list of books on her website
DAPIN, Mark	1963- Sydney author	From the Trenches: the best ANZAC Writing of World War One (2015) R&R (2015) Spirit House (2014) The Penguin Book of Australian War Writing (2011) King of the Cross (2009) Fridge Magnets are Bastards (2008) Strange Country: Travels in a Very Different Australia (2008) The Nashos War: Australian National Servicemen in Vietnam
DAVIS, Peter	1954-2008 Melbourne writer	Abraham's Pictures
DOWSE, Sara	1938- Canberra writer	Silver City (1985) West Block : The Hidden World of Canberra`s Mandarins (1983)
DREYFUS, Kay	1942- Melbourne writer + musicologist	Silences and Secrets: The Australian Experience of the Weintraubs Syncopators (2013) Sweethearts of Rhythm: The Story of Australia's All-girl Bands and Orchestras to the End of the Second World War ( 1999)
DUBAND, Julian	1963- Melbourne musician, composer, teacher + writer	My Incredible Creation – An IVF Journey 2018 (Illustrated by Jennifer Duband)
ELISHA, Ron	1951- Melbourne Playwright	Esterhaz ( 1990) In Duty Bound ( 1989) Safe House ( 1989) The Levine Comedy ( 1987) Two ( 1987) Einstein ( 1986)
ELLIOTT-KLEERKOPER, Marietta	1937-2019 Melbourne poet	Heirloom: Second anthology of the Melbourne Child Survivors of the Holocaust (2006) Island of Wakefulness (2006) A Perfect Distortion
EMANUEL, Lisa	Sydney writer	The Covered Wife (2021)
ENCEL, Diana	1928-2013 Sydney author	Peach Stones and other secrets Jewish country girls: a collection of memories (2005)
ENCEL, Sol	1925- 2010 Sydney Sociologist + writer	Continuity, Commitment, and Survival: Jewish Communities in the Diaspora (2003) Out of the Doll’s House: Women in the Public Sphere (1991) (with Dorothy Campbell) A Changing Australia (1971)
ENGELMAN, Matylda	1914- Melbourne writer	The End of the Journey: concluding Journey without end, an autobiography ( 1978) Journey Without End: an autobiography ( 1977)
EPSTEIN, Anna	1947	Melekh Ravitsh: The Eccentric Outback Quest of an Urbane Yiddish Poet from Poland (2019) Jewish Museum of Australia (2007 Editor/Coordinator) From Where We Have Come Portraits of the Australian Jewish Family (2001 Editor) The Australian Family Images and Essays (1998 Editor) Jewish Museum of Australia Journal (1993-2012 Quarterly, Editor)
EPSTEIN, Jan	Melbourne film writer + critic	Jews and Films in Australia (1997) Film writer, reviewer: "Cinema Papers", "Australian Jewish News", ABC ("filmic representation of history" forum) Articles 1992. 'Australian Films at Cannes'. Cinema Papers. n. 89 (August).
EPSTEIN, Raphael	Melbourne journalist, broadcaster + writer	Prisoner X (2014)
ERLICH, Rita	1947- Melbourne journalist + food writer	Melbourne By Menu (2012) Colour me Healthy (2001) 50 Fabulous Chocolate Cakes (1995)
FACTOR, June	1936- Melbourne writer	Lols: Best Jokes for Kids (2012) Juicy Jumping Joke Book (2000) Kidspeak: A Dictionary of Australian Children's Words, Expressions and Games (2000) Oh Dear, What Can the Matter Be? (1992) Roll Over Pavlova (1992) Australian Childhood: An Anthology ( (1991) Ladles and Jellyspoons (1989) Real Keen, Baked Bean! (1989) Summer (1988) Micky the Mighty Magpie (1986) Unreal Banana Peel (1986) All Right Vegemite! (1985) A First Australian Poetry Book (1983) Far Out Brussel Sprout (1983) Big Dipper (1980-1982) Cinderella Dressed in Yella
FAGENBLAT, Michael	Melbourne academic now based in Israel	A Covenant of Creatures: Levinas's Philosophy of Judaism (2010) (Cultural Memory in the Present) New Under the Sun : Jewish Australians on Religion, Politics and Culture (2008) Co-authors Fagenblat, Michael; Landau, Melanie and Wolski, Nathan
FALK, Barbara	1910-2008 Melbourne academic & writer	Caught in a Snare: Hitler's Refugee Academics 1933-1949 (1998) No Other Home: An Anglo-Jewish Story 1833-1987 (1988)
FEIN, Yvonne	1953- Melbourne writer	Choose Somebody Else (2018) The Torn Messiah (2008) On Edge (1992) Rachel Racing Time (2014)
FELDSTEIN, Jack	Scriptwriter originally Adelaide currently New York	See work + filmography
FENIGER, Saba	1924-2017 Melbourne writer	Short Stories, Long Memories (1999) The Human Element Project
FIENBERG, Anna	1956- English-born Sydney writer	Joseph (2003) Horrendo's Curse (2002) Borrowed Light (1999) Tashi (1995) Tashi series: Tashi, Tashi & the Ghosts, Tashi & the Genie, Tashi & the Giant, Tashi & the Phoenix and more
FIENBERG, Barbara		View bibliography
FINCHLEY (FREILICH), David	1946-	Doppelganger (2017)
FINKEL, Alan	1953- Australia's Chief Scientist
FINKEL, Elizabeth	1957-	The Best Australian Science Writing (2012) The Genome Generation (2012) Stem Cells: Controversy at the Frontiers of Science (2005)
FREADMAN, Richard	1951- Melbourne academic + writer	This Crazy Thing A Life: Australian Jewish Autobiography (2007) Shadow of Doubt: My Father and Myself (2003) Threads of Life: Autobiography and the Will (2001) Stepladder to Hindsight
FREEMAN, Howard (ed)	1940-2022 Melbourne president, Australian Jewish Historical Society	AJHS Journal (ed) (2018) AJHS Journal (ed) (2017)
FREIBERG, Freda	1933-2024 Independent film scholar	'Lost in Oz? Jews in the Australian Cinema'
FREIMAN, Marcelle	1951- Sydney writer	White Lines (Vertical) (2012) Monkey’s Wedding (1995)
FRIEZE, Donna-Lee	Melbourne author	The Interior of Our Memories (2015) A History of Melbourne’s Jewish Holocaust Centre
FRYBORT, Evelyn	1947- Sydney - Editor	Memories of Kings Cross – The Jewish Migrant Experience – 1930s – 1960s (2023)
FRYDENBERG, Erica
FRYDMAN, Gloria	1943-	What a Life: A Biography of Paul Morawetz (1995)
GARDNER, Helen	1939- Melbourne writer	My Mother's Child
GARDNER, Paul	Faculty of Education, Monash University for 36 years Bequest to Monash University About his book	The Unsung Family Hero (2020) The death and life of an anti-Nazi resistance fighter
GAUDRON, Alfred W.	1947- Sydney poet	Israel and Egypt; A Poet's Journey (1995) View bibliography
GAWENDA, Michael	Melbourne Journalist + author	The Powerbroker: Mark Leibler, an Australian Jewish Life (2020) Rocky & Gawenda: The Story of a Man & His Mutt (2010) American Notebook (2007)
GELBACH, Igor	1943- Melbourne writer	Tsaplin's Testimony (2013) Notes from the Esplanade (2003) Translated from the Russian by Rae Mathew Confessions of a Clay Man (2001)
GENZIUK, Simi	Melbourne based children’s author	So She Did (2019)
GETTLER, Leon	1958- Melbourne journalist & writer	Organisations Behaving Badly: A Greek Tragedy of Corporate Pathology (2005) An Unpromised Land (1993)
GINGOLD, Robert	1949-	Successful Ageing (1993)
GLASMAN, Eli	Melbourne writer	The Boy's Own Manual to Being a Proper Jew
GLAS-WIENER, Sheva	1916-	Children of the Ghetto (1983)
GOLD, Alan	1945- Sydney author	The Pirate Queen: The Story of Grace O'Malley, Irish Pirate (2006) Jezebel (2001) Berlin Song (1999) Minyan (1999) The Gift of Evil (1998) The Final Candidate (1995) The Lost Testament (1994) The Jericho Files (1993)
GOLDBERG, Ashley	Melbourne based fiction writer Read more	Abomination (2022) Chicken shit (Short story)
GOLDBLOOM, Goldie	1964- Writer, editor, teacher Born in Perth	Gwen (2017) The Paperbark Shoe (2011) You Lose These and other stories (2011)
GOLDBLOOM, Sandra	1943-	The Book of Rachel (1998)
GOLDENBERG, Howard	1946- Melbourne writer	Carrots and Jaffas (2014) Raft (2009) My Father's Compass (2007) A Threefold Cord
GOLDHAR, Pinchas	1901-1947 Melbourne Yiddish writer	The Collected Stories of Pinchas Goldhar = DERZEILUNGEN FUN AUSTRALIE (1939 - reprinted 2016)
GOLDSCHLAGER, Ron	Melbourne author	The Mystery of You
GOLDSMITH, Andrea	1950- Melbourne author	The Memory Trap (2017) The Prosperous Thief (2004) Under the Knife (1998) Facing the Music (1994) Modern Interiors (1991) Gracious Living (1990) Invented Lives (2019) Reunion (2009)
GOLVAN, Colin	1955- Melbourne writer	Copyright Law and Practice (2008) An Introduction to Intellectual Property Law (1992) The Distant Exodus: Australian Jews recall their immigration experiences (1990) Theatre Daze (1990) Words and Law (1989) Writers and the Law (1986) with Michael McDonald, Alan Kirsner and David Williamson.
GONSKI, David	1953- Sydney business leader + writer	I Gave a Gonski: Selected Speeches (2015)
GOUCH, Gabrielle	Sydney writer	Once, Only the Swallows Were Free (2013)
GOULD, Dita		The Girl in the Lion's Mouth: Memoir of a Child Survivor of the Holocaust (2020) I Was a Good Girl (2000)
GOULD, Lucy	1940-	Empty Corners (2000)
GRAY, Gary	1926- Melbourne short-story writer	A Spoonful of Soup and Other Stories
GREEN, John M	1953 -	The Tao Deception (2017) The Trusted (2013) Born to Run (2011) Nowhere Man (2010)
GREENBERG, Nicki	1974- Melbourne comic artist + Illustrator	The Cursed First Term of Zelda Stitch. Bad Teacher. Worse Witch (2018) The Naughtiest Reindeer (2014) Hamlet (2010) Operation Weasel Ball (2007) The Great Gatsby (2007) It's True! Squids Suck (2006) The Digits (1990) The Digits series
GREY-SMITH, Naama (Amram)	Perth writer	Sunscreen and Lipstick (2012)
GRINBLAT, Kathy	1948- Melbourne writer born in Paris	Children of the Shadows: Voices of the Second Generation (2002)
GROSS, Dick	1954- Melbourne writer	The Third Space (2014) Godless gospel, a modern guide to meaning and morality (1999) Money For Jam: How To Spread It And Not make A Mess (1990)
GUNZBURG, Daniel Isaac	1968- Perth Poet + songwriter Member of the band The Halcyon Days	The Princess of the Golden Harmonica: Love Poems (2019) 3 books of poetry and 3 music CDs
HALASZ, George	1949- Melbourne writer + psychiatrist	Cries Unheard: A New Look at Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (2002)
HARARI, Fiona	Sydney journalist & writer (originally Melbourne)	We Are Here: Talking with Australia’s Oldest Holocaust Survivors (2018) A Tragedy in Two Acts: Marcus Einfeld & Teresa Brennan (2011) Elders (Ed.) (2010)
HELFGOTT, Louise	1959- Mandurah, Western Australian writer, playwright and poet	Thistledown Seed (Memoir) (2022) Frames (Play) (2013) The Bridge (Musical) (2010) A Closer Sky (Play) (2008) Estuary Dream (Play) (2008) Can You Hold the Sun? (Poetry anthology) (2004)
HOFFMANN, Catherine	1948-	Crystal (1987) Forms of Bliss (1988)
HOLKNER, Jean	1926-2004	View publications
HUPPERT, Michele	1939 Melbourne Writer	Malou: French Resistance Fighter (2021)
INDYK, Ivor	1949- Sydney literary academic, editor + publisher	Founder of Giramondo Publishing (1995)
JACOB, Angelica	1958- Sydney writer	Finding Home: Memoir of a Jewish Girl: Bombay to Sydney (2019)
JACOBSON, Anna	1987- Brisbane artist & poet	View books
JAFFE, Meredith		View books
JAWARY, Nita	Melbourne artist + author	The Perpetual Table
JOEL, Alexandra	1953- Sydney authour and editor	The Artist's Secret (2023) The Royal Correspondent (2021) The Paris Model (2020) Rosetta : A Scandalous True Story (2016) Parade: The story of Fashion in Australia (1984 / 1998) Best dressed : 200 years of fashion in Australia (1984)
JUBAL, Benjamin Newman	1902-1961	The smile of Herschale Handle (1947)
JUCHAU, Mireille	1969- Sydney writer	Burning In (2007) Machines for Feeling (2001) Selected Writings The World Without Us (2015)
KAMINSKY, Leah	1959- Melbourne doctor + writer	View all publications
KAMLER, Barbara	Melbourne-based poet + academic	Academic publications Leaving New Jersey (2016) Love, Regardless (2022) Surviving, a poetic memoir (2004) Two Tales of Long Love (2019)
KAPLAN, Dalit	Melbourne-based writer + storyteller Read more	Broken Eggs - A Novel Online essays
KARIMI, Kooshyar	1968- Melbourne doctor + writer	I Confess: Revelations in Exile (2012)
KARPIN, Matthew	1959-	In Our Own Day (1995) The Crisis: How Autism Nearly Destroyed My Family and What We Did The Right (2009) The Thesis (2004)
KATZ, Danny	Melbourne writer + columnist	View books
KATZ, Lally	1978- Melbourne playright	Plays, screenplays + TV scripts
KEESING, Nancy	1923-1993 Sydney author	Shalom: The Acclaimed Collection of Australian Jewish Stories (1988)
KHAZAM, Sandra	1968- Melbourne author	Drive around the World by Danny Blay, Maddy Raffy Blay, Sandra Khazam See other publications
KIPPEN, Chilli		The Captain Loves Caviar The Chef who made Onions Cry
KIRSTEN, Karen	US based Australian writer (Melbourne) Read more	Irena's Gift (2023)
KOFMAN, Lee	1973- Melbourne author	View Lee Kofman books
KOHN, Peter	1955- Melbourne writer	Rachel's Chance (1987) View from a Sandcastle (1998)
KOHN, Rachael	1953- Sydney writer & broadcaster	View publications
KOMESAROFF, Michael	1945- Melbourne author	Reds Under the Bed (2018) ASIO and an unusual bunch of suspects
KORN, Neer	1966- Sydney based social researcher and writer	She’ll Be Right or Will She? – A Journey into the Australian Psyche (2024) Life Behind Bars: Conversations with Violent Male Inmates (2005) Shades of Belonging (2000)
KOVAL, Ramona	1954-	View Ramona Koval books
KRAMER, Tom		Contributor "Children of the Shadows" From Emancipation to Catastrophe: The Rise and Holocaust of Hungarian Jewry (2000)
KRANZ, Jaye	Melbourne based short story + non-fiction writer	Short story + non-fiction collections
KRASNOSTEIN, Sarah	Non-fiction writer Read more Read more	The Believer (2021) The Trauma Cleaner (2017)
KRAUS, Paul	1944- Sydney poet	Poetic Medicine (2017) Touching our innermost being Surviving Mesothelioma and Other Cancers: A Patient’s Guide (2008)
KROUK, Nora	1920- Sydney poet	I am writing in English about Russian China: Poems and memoirs (2013) Skin for Comfort Warming the Core of Things
KUNA, Miriam	Died 2017 Melbourne author	Medusa Wins North Carlton, my nation state. Reminiscences of Jewish life in North Carlton before 1939 Journal of the Australian Jewish Historical Society
LANDSMAN, Lexi	Sydney writer Listen
LAVI, Tali	Melbourne based writer, critic + interviewer	Articles by Tali Lavi
LAZAR, Joel		The New Australian Haggadah (Editor) (2015)
LAZAR, John	1801-1879 Sydney + Adelaide	Theatrical writer (Pantomimes)
LEIGHTON, Harry		I: Dark Healer II: Knives of Bastion
LESER, David	1956- Byron Bay journalist + author	David Leser books
LEVI, Dr. John	1934-	View Dr John Levi's books
LEVY, Barry	Brisbane author (originally Johannesburg)	As If! (2008) Burning Bright (2004) Sawdust (co-author) (2013) Shades of Exodus (2011) The Terrorist (2012)
LEW, Dr Henry (Harry) R.	1948- Melbourne author	Patterson of Israel (2020) Horace Brodzky (1987) Imaging the World In Search of Derwent Lees (1996) Lion Hearts Smitten by Catherine The Five Walking Sticks (2000)
LEWIN, Zwi	1934- Melbourne author	My Sack Full of Memories (2019) As told to Joe Reich
LEWITT, Maria	1924-2020	Grandmother's Yarn (for children) (1985) No Snow in December: An Autobiographical Novel (1985) Come Spring (1980) Just Call Me Bob (1976) About Maria Lewitt Obituary - Sydney Morning Herald
LIBERMAN, Cassie		Le Lourve The Women Behind the Icon
LIBERMAN, Karen	Melbourne authour + photographer	Alegria: stories and recipes that celebrate and preserve my Sephardi and Ashkenazi ancestors (2018-)
LIBERMAN, Serge	1942-2017 Melbourne doctor & author	All Serge Liberman's writings Bibliography of Australasian Judaica 1788–2008, The The Storyteller: Selected Stories Where I Stand – Serge Liberman
LICHTENSTEIN, Bronwen	1947- Alt. name Sarah Ebenor	Bronwen Lichtenstein publications The Mazel Tov
LICHTER, Ida	1947-	Ida Lichter articles in The Spectator Magazine, Australia Muslim Women Reformers: Inspiring Voices Against Oppression (2009)
LIPSKI, Sam	Melbourne based Journalist + Editor Speaker profile	Let My People Go (2015) Co-author with Suzanne Rutland Selected articles in The Australian Jewish News Sydney Institute speeches
LURIE, Morris	1938- 2014 Melbourne writer	Cleaning the Stables (2015) Hergesheimer in the Present Tense (2014) To Light Attained (2008)
MANE, Gilbert	Sydney writer	Gilbert Mane books
MANN, Leon	1937- Melbourne academic & author	Jews of the Outback (co-authour) (2010) Decision making: A psychological analysis of conflict, choice and commitment. Co-authored with Irving Janis.
MARCUSON, Steven	1959- Perth author	The Bunting Quest (2016)
MARGO, Jill	1954-	Articles in The Financial Review Jill Margo publications
MARGOLIN ROYAL, Linda	1962- Sydney author, historical Fiction	The Star on the Grave (2024)
MARIN, Bernard	1950- Melbourne writer Click here to buy Bernard Marin books	Letter to my Father (2020) Good As Gold (2019) Stories of Profit and Loss (2019) Stories of Remembering and Forgetting (2019) My father my father (2002)
MARKS, Harry	1923-1977	The Heart Is Where the Hurt Is (1966) Unicorn among the Wattles (1979)
MARKS, Stan	1929- Melbourne writer	God Gave You One Face (1964) The Holocaust and 21st Century
MARKUS, Andrew	Melbourne academic + writer	A Second Chance: the Making of Yiddish Melbourne Australia's Immigration Revolution Immigration and Nation Building: Australia and Israel Compared John Howard Surrender Australia: View further Andrew Markus publications
MARLOW, David	1962- Melbourne author	Uncovering their names and stories: 300+ years of a German Jewish family 1697-2024 (2025)
MARTIN, David	1915-1997	View list of David Martin publications
MAX, Helen	Melbourne writer	Searching For Yesterday
MEHLMAN, Chaim	Melbourne Writer + Video Producer	Larger Than Life: The Story of Rabbi Yitzchok Dovid Groner OBM (2022)
MELTZER, Gloria	Nimbin, NSW writer	Only in Sri Lanka (2015)
Michelle KALUS	Melbourne Co-authour with Ali Berg	Fancy Meeting You Here (2022) While You Were Reading (2019) The Book Ninja (2018)
MILLER, Deborah Masel	1957-2011	In the Cleft of the Rock: Writings on the Five Books of Moses (2009) Soul to Soul: Writings from Dark Places (2011) The Maisonettes (2004)
MILLINGEN, Dalia	1922-2014 Melbourne author (dec.)	The Changing Form of Clouds (2011) A memoir of life, love and longing
MOSHINSKY, Romy	1970- Melbourne-based writer, editor + publisher. Co-founder of Real Publishing.
MOSHINSKY, Sam	1934- Melbourne writer	Hello, Australia (2023) Goodbye Shanghai (2016)
MOUSTAFINE, Mara	1952- Sydney writer	Secrets and Spies (2002)
MYER, Rod	1955- Melbourne writer	The Story of Victor Smorgon: Living the Dream (2000) In Full Stride: The Life and Times of Baillieu (Bails) Myer
NASEBY, Eileen	1943-	Ursula: A Voyage of Love and Drama (2006)
NAYMAN, Michele		Michele Nayman books
OLIVER, Isabel Esther	1965 - Works in remote Aboriginal Lands Schools in NT + WA
PALTI, Uri	1939- Melbourne author	Does Life Have Fiction Moments? (2014) Changing Faces Changing Paces (2014) Mikhtavim be-kivun ekhad: mikhtavim she-nikhtevu mi-tahat ha-shamayim va-asher nishlehu me'al le-'ananim (1997) Dream is another word for Hope (2013) The Lady from Mt. Tamborine (2013) Where the Cranes Fly (2008)
PEARLMAN, Jonathan	Sydney based writer + editor	Australian Foreign Affairs (Editor) Jewish Quarterly (Editor) The Saturday Paper (World Editor)
PERLMAN, Elliot	1964- Melbourne author	Three Dollars (1998) The Reasons I Won't Be Coming (1999) Seven Types of Ambiguity (2005) The Street Sweeper (2012) Good Morning, Again
PERLSTONE, Phyllis		You Chase After Your Likeness (2002) The Edge of Everything (2007)
PILA, Ron	1965 Melbourne writer	Under a Lucky Star (2020)
PIZER, Marjorie	1920-2016 Sydney poet	A Poet’s Life (1963-2005) Seasons of Love (1975) Selected Poems 1963-1983 (1984) Equinox (1987) Journeys (1992) To You the Living, Poems for Comfort and Healing (1992) Below the Surface; Reflections on Life and Living with Anne Spencer Parry (1994) Await the Spring (1998) A Fortunate Star (2001)
POLACK, Gillian	1961- Canberra academic & writer	See all publications
POLLAK, Cynthia		After the death of your child: A Jewish mother’s Perspective (2018) Jewish Bereaved Parents Inc.
PRESSER, BRAM	1976- Melbourne author	Range of published works The Book of Dirt
PRICE, Margaret	Broken Hill author	Jews of the Outback (co-author) (2010)
PRINCE, Frances	1958- Writer - Melbourne + Jerusalem	GIFT OF TIME. Discoveries from the Daily Ritual of Reading with my Father. (2021)
RAFAEL, Rivqa	Sydney Editor & Writer	Rivqa Rafael publications
RAVER, Miki	1945-	Listen to Her Voice She Is Wisdom: A Celebration Of The Feminine Divine (2004)
REICH, Joe	1940-	Ein Stein: A novel (2021) My Sack Full of Memories (2019) Building Bridges (2016) Book of the Weak (2013) I Know Precious Little (2011)
REITER, David	1947- Brisbane award-winning writer + publisher	David Reiter publications
RICHTER, Anne	Asian arts expert	Arts & Crafts of Indonesia (1994)
RIEMER, Andrew	1936-	The Habsburg Cafe (1993) Inside Outside: Life Between Two Worlds (1995) Between the Fish and the Mudcake (1999) A Family History of Smoking
ROSENBERG, Jacob	1922-2008 Melbourne author	Lives and Embers East Of Time
ROSENTHAL, Lesley Sharon	1953- Melbourne writer, originally from England	Milkshakes, Men and Melodies: an American affair (1994) Schmattes : Stories of Fabulous Frocks, Funky Fashion and Flinders Lane Misadventures of Esmeralda Bloom Lesley Sharon RosenthalPublications (1991) Netting Your Guy Lesley Sharon Rosenthal (1997) short story
ROSS, Dina	Melbourne playwright	Chrysalis (2008)
RUBENSTEIN, Kim	1965- Academic + writer	List of publications
RUBIN, Halina	1939- Melbourne author	Journeys with my Mother (2015)
RUBINSTEIN, Dr Hilary L.	1946- Historian, author + editor	Catastrophe at Spithead: The Sinking of the Royal George (2020) British Naval History The Durham Papers (compiler and editor) (2019) Selections from the Papers of Admiral Sir Philip Charles Henderson Calderwood Durham G.C.B. (1763-1845) British Naval HIstory The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History (co-author) (2011) Anglo-Jewish History A Time to Keep. The Story of Temple Beth Israel: 1930 to 2005 (co-editor) (2005) Australian Jewish History Trafalgar Captain: Durham of the Defiance (2005) British Naval History The Jews in the Modern World: A History since 1750 (co-author) (2002) General Jewish History Philosemitism: Admiration and Support in the English-Speaking World for Jews, 1840-1939 (co-author) (1999) Anglo-Jewish History Menders of the Mind: a history of the Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Psychiatrists 1946-96 (co-author), (1996) Australian history The Jews in Australia: A Thematic History Volume One: 1788-1945 (1990) Australian Jewish History Chosen: The Jews in Australia (1987) Australian Jewish History The Jews in Victoria, 1835-1985 (1986) Australian Jewish History The Jews in Victoria, 1835-1985 (1985) (boxed hardback edition) Australian Jewish History Captain Luckless: James, first Duke of Hamilton (1606-49) (1975) British History
RUTLAND, Suzanne	1946- Academic + writer	Lone Voice: The Wars of Isi Leibler (2021) Let My People Go Co-author with Sam Lipski (2015) Jews of the Outback (co-author) (2010) If You Will It, It Is No Dream: The Moriah Story 1943-2003 (2006) The Jews in Australia (2006) Edge of the Diaspora: Two Centuries of Jewish Settlement in Australia (2001) With one voice: A history of the New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies (1998) Pages of history: A century of the Australian Jewish Press (1995) Triumph of the Jewish spirit: 40 years of the Jewish Communal Appeal 1967 - 2007
SACKVILLE, Kerri	Sydney writer & columnist	Out There: A Survival Guide for Dating in Midlife (2018) The Little Book of Anxiety: Confessions from a Worried Life (2012) When My Husband Does the Dishes (2012)
SAFRAN, John	1972-	Depends What You Mean by Extremist Murder in Mississippi
SAFRANSKY, Rosa	1948-
SCHWARTZ, Baba	1927-2017 Melbourne writer	The Lost Art of Baking with Yeast (2010) The May Beetles: My First Twenty Years (2016)
SCHWARZ, Michelle	1966- Melbourne writer	A Question of Power: The Geoff Clark Case (2008) One Split Second: The Death of David Hookes and the Trial of Zdravko Micevic (2006)
SEBBAN, Shira	1963- Sydney writer + migration agent for refugees	Vietnam’s Modern Day Boat People: Bridging Borders for Freedom (2024) Unlocking the Past: Stories From My Mother’s Diary (2018)
SEMEL, Nava	1954-2017 Israeli author (d)	Paper Bride (2012) And the Rat Laughed (2008)
SHAIAK, Gedaliah	1905-1983 Born in Poland, arrived in Australia 1949	Force and Defiance - Der opgot in fayer (Yiddish) (1982)
SHARAFSKI, Ben	Israel-Australian writer based in Sydney	Returning to Carthage edited by M.A. Hisflop NEW 2021
SHAVITSKY, Ziva	Melbourne Academic + writer	The Mystery of the Ten Lost Tribes The Mystery of the Ten Lost Tribes
SHEFTALOVICH, Zoya	Sydney journalist
SHOLL, Natasha	Melbourne freelance writer + author	Found Wanting (2022)
SINGER, Ivan	1922-2008	My Father's Blessing, My Salvation (2002) The Colour of Liberty (2006) A sequel of the first book. It deals with 20 years of life after the war.
SINGER, Peter	1946- Philosopher + writer	Full list of publications Practical Ethics (2017) Animal Liberation: The Definitive Classic of the Animal Movement (1975) Writings on an Ethical Life
SINGER, Renata	1947-	Older and Bolder: Life after 60 (2015) The Front of the Family (2001)
SKOVRON, Alex	1948- Melbourne poet	The Poet (2005) See all Alex Skovron books Autographs: 56 poems in prose (2008) Infinite City (1999) Sleeve Notes (1992) The Rearrangement (1988)
SLONIM, Eva	1931- Melbourne writer	Gazing at the Stars (2014)
SPRING, Joseph	1927-	From Berlin to Biere : growing up in the Holocaust (2009)
SPUT-STERN, Anya	1921- Melbourne author	The Clan (2016)
STEIN, Darren	1973- Sydney artist, writer + poet	The Nut House poems (2014)
STONE, Deborah	Melbourne journalist + editor	Selected Articles
STONE, Nina (ed)	1935-	Silent no more: Melbourne child survivors of the Holocaust : anthology (1999) Born to survive : a long journey to freedom (2015)
STRUM, Andrew	Melbourne editor	Eshkolot (2002) Essays in memory of Rabbi Ronald Lubofsky
SUGARMAN, Nancy	Melbourne based ESL teacher + writer	Common Ground: An Anthology of Stories Written by Assyrian, Jewish and Sudanese Women (2006)
SUTTNER, Immanuel	Sydney poet	Learn About South Africa (2007) Cutting Through the Mountain: Interviews with South African Jewish Activists Biographical details: Immanuel Suttner was born in South Africa, lived in Israel for ten years, and now resides in Sydney. He has published fiction and non-fiction for children, and a collection of verse, Hidden & Revealed (Quartz/Snailpress 2007). His poems have also been published in literary journals in South Africa, Israel and Australia, and anthologised in several collections. His most recent book was "The African Animal Football Cup", which won the Inaugural Fiction Prize at the Woollahra Local Writer's Word Festival.
SVED, Miriam	Melbourne-based writer
SWAN, Norman	1953-	So You Want To Live Younger Longer? The Ultimate Guide to Longevity (2022) So You Think You Know What's Good for You? (2021) The Politics of Subtraction: Public Hospitals in Australia (1985)
SZEGO, Julie	Melbourne writer	The Tainted Trial of Farah Jama (2014) The Tainted Trial of Farah Jama
TAFT, Margaret	1953 - Melbourne writer	A Second Chance: the Making of Yiddish Melbourne (2018)
TAKAC, Esther	Melbourne psychologist + writer	Genesis-The Book With Seventy Faces: A Guide for the Family (2008)
TEDESCHI, Mark	1952- Sydney barrister, photographer + authour	Murder at Myall Creek (2016) Eugenia : A True Story of Adversity, Tragedy, Crime and Courage (2012) Shooting Around Corners (2012)
TEDESCHI, Simon	1981- Sydney classical pianist + writer	Fugitive (2022)
TORSH, Daniela	1946- Sydney writer	A Women’s Education Catalogue (1976) School’s Out with co author Ken Newcombe (1975) A book about what Australian kids would like their school to be.
TRAJSTMAN, Albert	1946- Melbourne author	Faraway Places (2018)
TROPE, Nicole	Sydney author	Home Sweet Home (2021 (to be published)) Forgotten (2017) Blame (2016) The Boy Under the Table (2013)
TUMARKIN, Maria	1974- Melbourne writer	View books + articles
ULMAN, VIvienne	1948- Melbourne writer	Alzheimer's: A Love Story (2010)
UNGLIK, Ari	Melbourne writer	Henderson's: The First 100 Years (1993) Between a rock and a hard place: The story of the development of the EPA (1996) Ferguson Plarre Bakehouses : A Recipe For Success : Four Generations Of Baking Excellence (1997) Building A Life: Ted Lustig's Story (2001)
VAJDA, Frank	1935- Melbourne neurologist & writer	Saved to Remember : Raoul Wallenberg, Budapest 1944 and After (2016)
VALENT, Dani	Melbourne cooking writer	See all Dani's cookbooks (2011, 2013, 2017)
VALENT, Paul	1938- Melbourne psychiatrist & writer	In Two Minds: Tales of a Psychotherapist (2009) From Survival to Fulfilment: A Framework for the Life-Trauma Dialectic (Series in Trauma and Loss) (1998) Child Survivors of the Holocaust (2002)
VARGA, Susan	1943- Sydney writer	Happy Families (1999) Heddy and Me (1994)
VEROLME, Hetty	1930- Perth-based writer	Hetty: A True Story (2010) The Childrens House of Belsen (2000) Now published in Australia, England, Holland, Germany, Italy and France. A film is in the works: stay tuned to this page for details as they come to hand.
VERSTANDIG, Mark	1912-2002	I Rest My Case (1995)
VIDAL, Sara	1945 Melbourne author	Bella and Chaim (2017) The Story of Beauty and Life
WATEN, Judah	1911-1985 Melbourne writer	Publications (see list) Alien Son (1952) Unbending (1954) Distant Land (1965) So Far No Further (1971)
WELDON, Andrew	1998- Melbourne cartoonist	I'm so sorry little man, I thought you were a hand-puppet (2002) The Kid with the Amazing Head (1998) Clever Trevor's Stupendous Inventions (1999)
WEYLAND, Marcel	1927- Sydney writer Read more	The Boy on the Tricycle (2016) My Animated Life - Yoram Gross (2011) Polish Poetry : From World War I to the End of World War II, Plus a Postscript (2010)
WOLSKI, Nathan	Read more Melbourne academic + writer	A Journey into the Zohar: An Introduction to the Book of Radiance (2010) New Under the Sun : Jewish Australians on Religion, Politics and Culture (2006)
WRIGHT, Clare	1969- Melbourne Historian	You Daughters of Freedom: The Australians Who Won the Vote and Inspired the World (2019) We Are the Rebels: The Women and Men Who Made Eureka (2015) Beyond the Ladies Lounge: Australia’s Female Publicans (2014) The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka (2014) Democracy Trilogy, Book One
WYNHAUSEN, Elisabeth	1946-2013 Melbourne writer	The Short Goodbye: A Skewed History of the Last Boom and the Next Bust (2011) Manly Girls (1989) Dirt Cheap: Life at the Wrong End of the Job Market (2005) On Resilience (Little Books on Big Themes) (2010)
ZABLE, Arnold	1947- Melbourne writer	The Fighter (2016) Glenn's Story (film script, 1979) Clown Boy (children's book, 1982) The River Man (children's book, 1982) Jewels and Ashes (Scribe, 1991) Wanderers and Dreamers: Tales of Yiddish Theatre in Australia Cafי Scheherazade (2001) The Fig Tree (2002) Scraps of Heaven (2004) Violin Lessons (2011)
ZAIL, Suzy	1966- Melbourne author	Inkflower (2023) Arabella’s Alphabet Adventure (2022) I am Change (2019) Alexander Altmann A10567/Saving Midnight (2014) Playing for the Commandant (2012) The Wrong Boy (2012) Smitten (2010) All You Need is Love (2008) The Tattooed Flower (2006)
ZASLAVSKY, Alice	Melbourne food writer Read more Read more	In Praise of Veg (2020) Alice's Food A-Z (2015)
ZAWATZKY, Joan	Melbourne writer	A compassionate guide to dealing with depression (2013) Scent of Oranges (2006-2011) The Third Generation (2012) There’s a Light at the End of the Tunnel: Self-help and hope for sufferers of depression: Stories, solutions and strategies (2002)
ZOHAR, Seree	Australian born poet based in Israel	And While Vivaldi Plays Benita Encaged The Haircutter
ZUCKERMAN, Ghil'ad	1971- Adelaide based academic & writer	Israelit Safa Yafa (Israeli, A Beautiful Language) (2008) Language Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew (2003)
ZWI, Rose	1928-2018	The Umbrella Tree (1990) The Inverted Pyramid Ravan Press (Johannesburg, 1981) Exiles Ad Donker (Craighall, South Africa, 1984) Biographical notes Born in Mexico, Zwi moved with her parents, who were originally from Lithuania, to South Africa in 1930. In 1949, she moved to Israel in an effort to move away from Apartheid, spent some time in London, and then moved back to South Africa in 1953. Zwi graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg) in 1967 with an Honours degree in English Literature. She worked as book editor at Ravan Press between 1979 +1981, and began visiting black townships to take part in illegal poetry readings. In 1988, Rose moved to Australia, where she continued publishing her books. Rose has also written short stories, including "Stones", which won the Thomas Pringle award for best short story.
ZWICKY, Fay	1933-	Fay Zwicky: Poems 1970-1992 (1993) Isaac Babel's Fiddle (Poetry, 1975) Journeys: Poetry of Judith Wright, Rosemary Hobson, Gwen Harwood and Dorothy Hewitt (Editor, 1982) Kaddish and Other Poems (Poetry, 1982) Picnic (2006) The Lyre in the Pawnshop: Essays on Literature and Survival 1974-1984 (Critical Essays, 1986)

Write Your Story

The program of the Makor Jewish Community Library, Melbourne.

Both the Lamm Library and Jewish Holocaust Centre Library assist local Jewish writers seeking to publish their memoirs.

The Holocaust Centre helps to publish memoirs written by Holocaust survivors who are directly engaged with the Holocaust Centres as current or past volunteers.

The Lamm Library, through their continuing Makor Write Your Story program, fosters the publication of Jewish non-fiction stories of a vast array of Jewish topics by the Melbourne Jewish community.

Authors include:
Ajzen, Chaim	Chaim Ajzen Remembers
Ajzner, Hania	Hania’s War
Altman, Kitia	Memories Of Ordinary People
Arnstein, Lenke	Recurring Dreams
Barnett,Mel	Arnaff Good f'r a Dalston Boy: An East London Childhood
Beckwith, Doreen	Full Circle: The Story of a Chained Woman
Benjamin, Sydney A.B.	A Full House
Boas, Bernard A.	The Five Books Of Boas
Buckner, Ille	Starts and Pauses
Censor, Maria	Letters To My Mother
Cherny, Sylvia	Who is Sylvia?
Cooper, Leo	The Long Road to the Lucky Country
Eidelson, Meyer	Books, Tanks and Radios
Eisfelder, Horst ‘Peter’	Chinese Exile: My Years in Shanghai and Nanking
Erlanger, Arnold	Choose Life
Fabian, Garry	A Look Back Over My Shoulder
Fisher, Myra	Cossacks, Cockneys And Colonials
Friedmann, Jakob	Reluctant soldier : a Jewish Partisan’s Story
Gardner, Helen	My Mother’s Child
Ginzburg, George	A Will to Live: Autobiography
Goldberg, Paulette	Just Think It Never Happened
Goldrei, Naomi	The Champions Of My Childhood
Goldstein, Guta	There Will Be Tomorrow
Gould, Lucy	Empty Corners
Gray, Gary	A Spoonful of Soup: and Other Stories
Grinblat, Ian	Nachum Zalman Gurewicz : a life
Gust, Itzhak	Such Was Life
Haberfeld, Lusia	Lauferin : The Runner Of Birkenau
Harari, Mayer	Second Exodus
Jawary, Sabiha	Baghdad I Remember
Kay, David as told to Ian Grinblat	Tough Kid : Surviving Siberia in Style
Korda, Teri	My Dear Andrea And Andris
Korn, Henri	Saviours, the Story of a Jewish Altar Boy
Kozminsky-Meyerowitz, Mena	Keeping the Promise: Memories of a War Bride from Israel
Leperere, Helen	Memoirs And Reflections
Mandelbaum, Rae	Echoes From The Past: The Rifka Norman Story T
Marks, Eva	A Patchwork Life
Max, Helen	Searching For Yesterday: a Photographic Essay about My Mother, a Holocaust Sorvivor
Philips, Hartog (Harry)	Just Call Me Harry: Growing Up in A Dutch Village
Randles, Shirley	No Locked Doors
Reisman, Kathy	More Than Nine Lives
Robin, Moshe and Stefa	Stepping Into Life
Rosenberg, Elfie	Serry And Me: Kindertransport and Beyond
Rosner, Maurie	The Bell Tolls For Thee and Other Short Stories
Roth, Marianne	An Intricate Collage
Rubin, Wolf	Wolf: Surviving By Art
Schimmel, Marilyn	Pola’s Story
Schreiber, Vera	The Porcelain Doll
Schwartz, Schmul	Under Red Skies
Schwarz, Tess	The First Forty Families: Bringing My Family Tree and Forest to Life
Searle, Freda	Memory’s Wings And Apron Strings
Skall, Lily	My Story
Stern, Max	My Stamp on Life
van Rijsdijk, Mink	The Shoes of a Foundling
Wroby, Godel	My Battle for Survival
Zylberman, Halina	Swimming Under Water

THANK YOU

Thank you to those readers who contributed suggestions, corrected links and love this database!
Special special thanks go to David Ades, author of "Mapping the World" and a great friend of this project.

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