By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –Among my great pleasures as editor of San Diego Jewish World is being able to work with a group of talented writers here and abroad. Their accomplishments are a continuous source of pride. For example, here in San Diego, Laurel Corona, a contributing writer and a professor of humanities [...]
Far to Go by Alison Pick, Paperback: 336 pages, Harper Perennial (April 19, 2011), ISBN-10: 9780062034625, List price: $14.95 By Laurel Corona SAN DIEGO– Far to Go gets under your skin early and stays there. This new novel by Canadian writer Alison Pick follows the fate of one affluent Jewish family caught up in the quick [...]
Finding Emilie by Laurel Corona, Gallery Books, 2011, 427 pages plus reading guide and conversation with author, $15. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Questions often arise about biblical passages, which seem to skip a lot of material. To fill in those blanks, rabbis over the centuries have written explanatory stories known as medrashim. [...]
By Laurel Corona SAN DIEGO — As an author of both fiction and nonfiction, I know I should be patient with the time it takes for characters to be introduced, background and setting to be established, and a narrative to coalesce and move forward. I must admit, however, that when it comes to films, I am [...]
By Laurel Corona SAN DIEGO — The official charged with rounding up Parisian Jews in 1942 admonishes the participating officers in the 2010 film La Rafle (“The Roundup”) that the ethics of what they are about to do “are not to be debated.” The moral dimensions of the roundup and the eventual deportation and murder [...]
(January 5, 2011, Column 3) By Donald H. Harrison I San Diego and Israel Invitations are going out on Facebook from Tibi Zohar and other active members of the Jewish community to the Balboa Park demonstration planned by Israel advocates to counter another one planned by Palestinians and leftists in behalf of the terrorist Hamas [...]
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Laurel Corona, whose book, Penelope’s Daughter has its official release on Tuesday, Oct 5, will be making the rounds of local bookstores to tell how she created a new daughter for Penelope and Odysseus, the hero of Homer’s Odyssey. On Tuesday, Oct. 12, Corona, a frequent contributor to San Diego Jewish [...]
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Penelope’s Daughter by Laurel Corona, Berkeley Publishing Group, 2010, 358 pages including glossary, afterword and reader’s guide, $15. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Readers may be charmed by this story and yet find it controversial. Prize-winning author Laurel Corona, who often writes book reviews for San Diego Jewish World, has written another novel, Penelope’s Daughter, [...]
SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–San Diego Community College Chancellor Dr. Constance Carroll joins a cast of City College faculty and students on Friday, September 24, 2010 at the Saville Theatre on the City College campus for the launch of faculty member Laurel Corona’s novel, Penelope’s Daughter. Published by Berkley Books, a division of Penguin USA, Penelope’s [...]
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Samuel’s Daughter by Ann Brener, BookSurge Publishing, 2010, 230 pages, ISBN: 1439249911, paperback, $14.95 By Laurel Corona SAN DIEGO–In the spirit of Anita Diamant’s The Red Tent, Ann Bremer takes three individuals mentioned briefly in the Babylonian Talmud and fleshes them out into a rewarding story about life in the Jewish Diaspora in the third-century [...]
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