May 1987

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Noted Author Gloria Goldreich
To Speak at Forum Series

Gloria Goldreich, prize-winning author
of Jewish interest novels, is the featured
speaker for the final program of the
1986—87 CKJF Forum Series on Sunday, June
7 at 8:00 p.m. in the auditorium of Temple
Adath Israel.

This presentation is the second annual
Forum program endowed by the Rosenberg
family in memory of Elizabeth Rosenberg.
It is free and open to the public.

”An Author’s Insight into Her writing”
is the topic for her lecture.

Goldreich’s novels include Leah‘s
Journey, Leah’s Children (a sequel), Egg;
Days, This Promised Land, and This Burning
Harvest, a projected trilogy following the
lives of an Israeli family from
ore-Independence to the present. In 1979,
Leah’s Journey won the National Jewish
Book Award, and in 1981, Goldreich was
presented with the Federated Arts and
Letters Award.

Commentary, Midstream, Ladies Home
Journal, ms, and Hadassah, a diverse
selection of nationally distributed
magazines, have published Goldreich’s
essays and short stories. She has two
novels out for young adults, Season of
Discovery and ngi, and has ventured into
non—fiction with What Can She Be, a book
on women and careers.

A graduate of Brandeis, Goldreich first
came to national prominence as winner of
Seventeen magazine's short story contest.

 

Following her undergraduate studies, she
served as assistant to the director of
Jewish education of national Hadassah
until leaving for Israel to pursue a
degree in Jewish history. She now resides
in New York.

West of Eden, Gloria Goldreich’s newest
novel will be available for purchase, and
the author will be pleased to autograph
copies of her books.

Forum Chair Susan Cantor and her
committee arranged for Gloria Goldreich’s
appearance on the Series through the
Lecture Bureau of the Jewish Welfare

Board.