Orit Arfa

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Orit Arfa (born 1976 or 1977 in Los Angeles , USA ) is an American- Israeli book author and journalist.

Life

Orit Arfa grew up in Los Angeles as the daughter of a US father and an Israeli mother. Her grandparents are Holocaust survivors, and her father was born in a camp for displaced persons in Germany. She is the author of several books and publishes articles for the Jerusalem Post , the Jewish Journal , the magazine fluter of the Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb), the magazine Cicero and the axis of the good .

In 1999 Arfa went to Israel and became known for parodies of music videos by Miley Cyrus that went viral and which she had repackaged as anthems for settlement activists. She later invented the girl group The Gaza Girls , whose three members were all played by her, and which sang the title "Stop and Kill All the Jews!" The media industry was unsure whether it was a parody or a serious publication.

The plot of her book The Settler takes place in the context of Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip . Laura Kelly wrote in the Jerusalem Post that the book explores nuances of modern Israel and its people that are being whitewashed in the international press. Each of the characters stand for a different facet of Israeli society, national-religious, formerly religious, secular , belonging to a minority, kibbutz members or party people from Tel Aviv . Nobody can simply be categorized and the author shows once again that people are much more complicated than they seem.

Her book Underskin: A German-Israeli Love Story describes the relationship between an Israeli architect and a German peace activist in Tel Aviv and how they dealt with the Holocaust. Ellis Shuman called the book in the Times of Israel an unconventional love story that opened up a very difficult subject in a lighthearted and erotic way. The Jerusalem Post published an excerpt from the book.

In Germany, the self-confessed Trump voter Arfa was involved in the Islam-critical scene and took part in AfD events and the Berlin “Women's March” in June 2018.

Orit Arfa has lived in Berlin since 2016 . She is a “conscious single parent” mother of a daughter born in 2019.

Books

  • Spinoza & Ayn Rand: How to Reconcile Spinoza's God with Rand's Atheism , Route 60 Press, 2014.
  • The Settler: A novel of modern Israel , Route 60 Press, 2015.
  • Ayn Rand and Esther: How The Fountainhead Can Illuminate Our Understanding of Esther, Israel and the Jews , Route 60 Press, 2015.
  • Underskin: A German-Israeli Love Story , Route 60 Press, 2017.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hurray, I'm here! These are Berlin's sweet babies , Berliner Morgenpost, July 31, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b Stefanie Staiger: Single Mum on request: Orit Arfa on her decision , Lunamum, 2019.
  3. ↑ Self-portrait on Orit Arfa's official website
  4. ↑ a b Sandra Sperling: Just no political discussion in the club! , Now , September 8, 2017.
  5. ↑ a b c Laura Kelly: The humans behind the headlines , Jerusalem Post, August 12, 2015.
  6. ^ Articles by and about Orit Arfa in the Jerusalem Post
  7. ^ Articles by Orit Arfa in the Jewish Journal.
  8. ↑ Articles by and about Orit Arfa at fluter
  9. ^ Articles by and about Orit Arfa in Cicero
  10. ↑ Brief profile and contributions by Orit Arfa on the axis of good
  11. ↑ Ellis Shuman: Review of Underskin by Orit Arfa , Times of Israel, November 7, 2017.
  12. ↑ Orit Arfa: Can an Israeli kiss a German? In: Jerusalem Post , November 18, 2017.
  13. ↑ https://www.juedische-allgemeine.de/unsere-woche/ich-mag-keine-schubladen
  14. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khir6kchqsM
  15. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ftv9gSaDdE&feature=youtu.be
  16. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDvUfHocP10
  17. ↑ https://www.achgut.com/artikel/lasst_euch_nicht_selbst_im_stich
personal data
SURNAME Arfa, Orit
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-Israeli author and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH los Angeles