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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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An interesting and well-written account of working as a garbage collector. The physicality of the work equals that of an olympic athelete. Did you know that nearly 10,000 tons of trash are orbiting earth? We also send our garbage to Asia to be dealt ...more
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I put it down a couple of times even though I appreciated how good the writing was, but the story just wasn't for me. Until I got to the part about revenge. That struck a chord. Overall it's a good book with a lot of wonderful writing. Maybe too much ...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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