Dr. Nora Gold

Dr. Nora Gold is the founder or co-founder of three Canadian Zionist organizations: the New Israel Fund of Canada, JSpaceCanada, and Canadian Friends of Givat Haviva. Gold is a former professor, the prize-winning author of five books, and the founder and editor-in-chief of the prestigious online literary journal Jewish Fiction. Her first book, Marrow and Other Stories, won a Vine Canadian Jewish Book Award, and her novel Fields of Exile – the first (and to date, only) novel about anti-Israelism and antisemitism on campus – won the inaugural Canadian Jewish Literary Award. Her novel The Dead Man was translated into Hebrew and published in Israel. Her two most recent books are 18: Jewish Stories Translated from 18 Languages, and In Sickness and In Health/Yom Kippur in a Gym (two novellas). For more details, see noragold.com.