Dorit Orgad
Israeli writer (born 1936)
Dorit Orgad (Hebrew: דורית אורגד; born October 5, 1936) is an Israeli writer. She writes children's and young adult fiction, as well as books for adults. She also taught at academic institutions.
Biography
When she was 3, her family immigrated to Eretz Israel and settled in Netanya.
She graduated from the departments of economics and sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and of Jewish philosophy at Bar-Ilan University (Ph.D.).
Books
Orgad published 3 books for adults and 70 children's and young adult books.
1979, 1993: Testing Time (בשעת מבחן) (for ages 12–16)
Hamid, a medical student at Tel Aviv University, an Arab, rents a room from an old lady Miriam Rosen, who insists on calling him Haim. It turns out that she takes him for her son. Miriam's daughters accuse him of deception...
Translations: German, Spanish, Japanese, Korean
1984 (original Hebrew: הנער מסיביליה), 2006 (English): The Boy from Seville (translated by Sondra Silverston, for ages 10–13)
Set in the early 17th century Spain, it is a novel about 12-year-old boy Manuel Nunez and his Sephardic Jewish family of Marranos, Jews who were converted to Christianity, but continued to practice Judaism and for what they were persecuted by the Inquisition in Spain and Portugal.
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