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Born in the Dominican Republic and raised in Los Angeles, Dvora Treisman has been living in Catalonia, Spain for over twenty years. She spent most of her professional life in administration at the University of California and finished it as a technical writer for a major health care provider. She has been writing Beyond the Pale, a blog about her Catalan experiences, since 2009 and published her memoir, No Regrets: A Life in Catalonia, in 2022. Her next book, Stories My Father Told Me: From Warsaw, Moscow, Algeria, Siberia, Kazakhstan, Dominican Republic, will be published soon.

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Dvora Treisman For my latest book, Stories My Father Told Me, I thought I would write a short essay about my father to publish in a journal. But I immediately ran in…moreFor my latest book, Stories My Father Told Me, I thought I would write a short essay about my father to publish in a journal. But I immediately ran into some questions. Looking for the answers I dug out the memoir he wrote years ago that I had stashed away, started reading and couldn't stop. That became the basis of this new book about an Eastern European Jew who was very unusual for his time and had many interesting and enlightening true stories to tell.
About No Regrets, when I moved to Barcelona at the age of 52, I found a whole new world. I described this world to friends through emails. Most of my friends had never been to Catalonia and found the descriptions interesting and suggested I save the emails to maybe write a book in the future. More than 20 years later, here it is!(less)
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A Jewish Christmas Tradition


American Jews go out to eat Chinese for Christmas. According to anarticle in the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Jews heading out to Chineserestaurants on Christmas is not a myth. It’s science! It’s been studied. Andthey proceed to cite various services and agencies that have gatheredstatistics to prove it, with Szechuan chicken being the most popular dish.

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Stories My Father Told Me by Dvora Treisman
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I enjoyed reading this memoir learning about the various places and during the various times and events. This memoir gives the reader much more than his own story. The Father gives us insight into the world around him, many ot" Read more of this review »
Stories My Father Told Me by Dvora Treisman
"I enjoyed reading this memoir learning about the various places and during the various times and events. This memoir gives the reader much more than his own story. The Father gives us insight into the world around him, many other people and their exp" Read more of this review »
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I won't rate this book because not only did I not finish, I barely started, reading only to page 35. I've had it on my shelf for several years, having bought it soon after it was published. I don't tend to read Holocaust books, I know enough and can' ...more
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My Dog Tulip by J.R. Ackerley
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I saw the film that was made from this book 15 or 16 years ago, maybe more and remember liking it a lot. It had the strange feature that Minnie, my cat at the time, watched it with me. It was the only thing on television that she ever watched in all ...more
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"For the most part of his adult life Joe Randolph Ackerley longed for what he called an "ideal friend"—or, rather, the Ideal Friend. An openly gay British writer and editor, he counted a number of fellow persons of letters, homosexuals, and men who we" Read more of this review »
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Having recently read Stalin's Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess, written by Andrew Lownie and a newer book than this one by Holzman, I wanted more information about Burgess, who I find a fascinating person. Lownie's book was obviously biased again ...more
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Patty Barnett Patty wrote: "Dvora you are my first friend!! Thanks!! Now, when we finish reading about all of these forgers and art thieves what shall we do. Plan our own heist, paint a Vermeer or write a new novel!!"

I don't know why I didn't see this sooner, just found it tonight. Oh well, I probably couldn't do a heist either and certainly can't paint. I'll have to wait til my next life to write my novel. So, I guess we will both be reading as much as we can -and enjoying that a lot.


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Dvora Treisman Patty, I don't think I am up to any of that! I wouldn't mind, but just don't have it in me to attempt a heist or paint anything. I do write, but not novels. I'll just keep on reading about these and dream!


message 1: by Patty

Patty Barnett Dvora you are my first friend!! Thanks!! Now, when we finish reading about all of these forgers and art thieves what shall we do. Plan our own heist, paint a Vermeer or write a new novel!!


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