Dorit Orgad
Dorit Orgad ( Hebrew דורית אורגד; born October 5, 1936 in Breslau , German Reich ) is an Israeli writer.
Life
Dorit Orgad was born in Wroclaw in 1936 at the time of National Socialism . In 1939, before the outbreak of World War II , she came to the League of Nations in Palestine as a small child and grew up in Netanya . She studied economics and sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and graduated with a Ph.D. from Bar Ilan University. in Jewish philosophy . She worked first as a teacher, then as a journalist and writer, teaching at various schools and institutions, including the Levinsky College of Education ; since 1969 she has taught philosophy at Bar-Ilan University.
In her books for young people, Orgad deals primarily with historical topics and with interpersonal relationships between Jews and non-Jews; she also writes animal stories. Orgad has published three books for adults and 70 books for children and young people. She has published books in eleven languages. Several of her books have been adapted for television or theater.
Individual works
The main character of the book The Boy from Seville is Manuel Nunez, who lived as Marrane in the Spanish city of Seville in the 17th century . At the age of 13 he learned the family secret that the family was Jewish and that the other family members, as crypto Jews, were forbidden to practice the Jewish rites in secret. If their secret were revealed, the family would be severely persecuted by the Spanish Inquisition . The officially Christian family lives a double life in constant fear of denunciation. When Manuel falls in love with Violante, whose sister is suspected of being a witch , the family comes into the inquisition's field of vision. Finally, the family manages to flee to Amsterdam by ship.
In the book To a New Place , the boy Joav and his family have to move from a town near Tel Aviv to a small, newly founded town in the Negev desert . Joav, who has to leave his familiar surroundings, his school and his friend, now withdraws from everyone and does not take part in the new life. He runs away from home and learns about Bedouin life. Eventually he learns to accept the circumstances.
Awards (selection)
- 1981: Lamdan Prize
- 1982: Ashman Prize for Children's Short Stories
- 1984: Haifa University's Adrian Tomas Prize for children's literature for the book To a New Place
- 1987: Ze'ev Prize
- 1987: Bernstein Prize from the Education Department of Haifa University
- 2000: Hadassah & Haifa Foundation Prize
- 2001: Yad Vashem Award
- 2006: Italian Premio Verghereto for the best children's book of the year for the English edition of The Boy from Seville
- 2007: Ministry of Culture Prize
- 2012: Public Libraries Award
- 2017: Devorah Omer Prize for the book Yuri Breaks his Silence
Works in German translation
- The boy from Seville . From the Heb. by Iris Elkabets-Rosen, Alibaba Verlag , Frankfurt am Main 1992. As paperback: Dt. Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1994
- To a new place . From the Heb. by Iris Elkabets-Rosen, Alibaba Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1993
- The other son . From the Heb. by Iris Elkabets-Rosen, Alibaba Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1994
- The spy in the desert . From the Heb. by Mirjam Pressler , Alibaba Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1995
literature
- Dorit Orgad , in: Mirjam Morad (ed.): Encounter with children's and youth literature from Israel . Catalog for the event week and exhibition. (ZIRKULAR special number 39, June 1994), Documentation Center for Newer Austrian Literature in the Literaturhaus , Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-900467-39-0 , pp. 74-76
Web links
- Dorit Orgad at ITHL (Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Encounter with children's and youth literature from Israel , 1994, p. 74
- ↑ a b c Dorit Orgad at ITHL
- ↑ The Boy from Seville
- ^ A New Place
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Orgad, Dorit |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | דורית אורגד (Hebrew) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 5, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |