Sarah Blue

Sarah Blue, 2014

Sarah Blau , ( Hebrew שהרה בלאו, born May 17, 1973 in Bnei Brak ) is an Israeli writer.

Life

Sarah Blau grew up in a religious family in an ultra-orthodox Jewish environment (charedim) in Bnei Brak. Her maternal grandparents were imprisoned in Auschwitz concentration camp , and her paternal grandfather was murdered in Buchenwald concentration camp . Instead of getting married and having children, Blau studied history and psychology (BA) at Bar Ilan University . Even if she sees herself anchored in religion and obeys the commandments, she leads an open life, even without slavishly following the dress code. After attending school, she did community service at the Institute for Holocaust Studies at the University of Haifa and worked there as a lecturer for many years after graduating.

Blau has written several articles for television and newspapers on the role of feminism in Orthodox Jewish society. So far, Blau has published two novels awaiting translation into English and German. In her first novel, she inverts the traditionally secondary role of women in the golem myth and assigns her the main role.

In 1999 she and her friends began to organize the official Holocaust Remembrance Day Yom HaScho'a in their own way, which aroused contradiction and interest in Israeli society: every year ten young people speak at an alternative event each year about a thought about the Holocaust and the time since then. In 2012 the actor Amir Orion, the singer Sheila Farber and the dancer Smadar Yaaron performed next to her at the Tmoona Theater.