Life
1944- ; b. Israel or Romanian parents; ed. Hebrew Univ., Jerusalem; came to Ireland, 1969; m. Louis Lentin; worked in television; writes in Hebrew and English; Stones of Claims, and Like A Blind Man, novellas published in Tel Aviv;
plays broadcast in Israel; Tea with Mrs. Klein (1985), novella; Night Train with Mother (1989), first novel; with Geraldine Niland, Who is Minding the Children? (1980), and Conversations with Palestinian Women (1981), dialogues with activists; has also written two novels in Hebrew and radio plays; contrib. to Galway Women Studies Centre Review (UCG) [Seminars 1993-94] (1995), writing on feminist research methodologies.
Works
Fiction, [As supra &] Songs on the Death of Children (Poolbeg 1996), 239pp.; ed., Gender and Catastrophe (1998). Miscellaneous, Extract from Tea with Mrs. Klein printed in Triad, Modern Irish Fiction [with James Liddy and Tomás Ó Murchadha] (Dublin: Wolfhound 1986), pp.1-56
Commentary
Review of Songs on the Death of Children, noticed in First Flush, Books Ireland (April 1996); Jewish woman journalist goes from Dublin to Israel to report on conflict and becomes involved with Mossad agent.
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References
Katie Donovan, A. N. Jeffares & Brendan Kennelly, eds., Ireland’s Women (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1994).
Notes
Louis Lentin: ‘The attitude of the Irish towards incoming Jewish refugees during the 1930s and 1940s was the subject of a recent TV documentary by Jewish film-maker, Louis Lentin, entitled No More Blooms [Dec. 1997] shown towards the end of last year on RTE.’ (See Katie Donovan, ‘Young Irish Blooms’ [newsfeature], in The Irish Times, 7 Jan. 1998, with caption: ‘ A recent documentary by Louis Lentin and the Aosdana debate about Francis Stuart have put the spotlight back on Irish Jews. ...; &c. ’.)
Louis Lentin directed the film Mr Joyce is Leaving Paris (1971) based on a playscript by Tom Gallacher. This was a two-act play the first of which is set in Trieste where James Joyce is living in Trieste with Nora Barnacle and their two children when Joyce's brother Stanislaus comes from Dublin to support them, and the second of which is set in Paris in 1939 while the Germans advance and Joyce prepares to get away with his family to Zürich.
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