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Julie Gray is a developmental editor and native Californian living in Tel Aviv. Her book, The True Adventures of Gidon Lev was one of the Kirkus Review's Best Books of 2020. Julie appreciates a good gin and tonic and loves Middle Eastern food, which is convenient, given her location. She's currently writing "They Do Things Differently Here," a memoir about making the move from Hollywood to Israel and the hilarity that ensued. Julie's writing can be found in The Times of Israel, the Jewish Journal, Moment Magazine, the Huffington Post, the NY Post, the Sanskrit Literary Journal, and MovieMaker magazine among others.

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A Holocaust Survivor in Berlin

Berlin is a city full of contrasts. In the span of a short walk, you might pass grand historical monuments, sobering reminders of the Nazi past, and bursts of creative, youthful energy and innovation.
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It is , at least for me, Gidon Lev, also a child Holocaust survivor , almost the same age as the wri

Ter. I survived THERESIENSTADT, somehow ,came to Israel as Hashomer Hatzair member, and joined Kibbutz HAZOREA, in the Jezrael Valley. Not only that,
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D.H. Lawrence
“Never trust the teller, trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.”
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Lemony Snicket
“If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.”
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Jane Austen
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
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William Faulkner
“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
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