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EVENTS for THE WATCHMAKER'S DAUGHTER

JCC MANHATTAN
MEET THE AUTHOR
January 17th, 2013
New York, NY

BERKELEY FESTIVAL OF WOMEN AUTHORS:
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
January 26, 2013
Berkeley, CA

BUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION
co-sponsored by HADASSAH
Reading and Discussion
January 27, 2013
Jewish Community Library
San Francisco, CA

92nd Street Y
BOOK DISCUSSION
"Prisoner or Princess": MODERATOR
with Talia Carner, author of JERUSALEM MAIDEN
and Deborah Feldman, author of UNORTHODOX
Wednesday, February 13 at 7:30
AUDIOTAPE AVAILABLE

TEMPLE BETH TFILOH/​A Jewish Book Council Event
Mercaz Series Lecture
w/​ Jewish Book Award Finalist Mary Glickman
Baltimore, MD
February 25, 2013
[The largest Modern Orthodox Congregation in the U.S.]

NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN/​CORNELL
Lecture and Discussion
New York, NY
March 12, 2013

EAST HAMPTON LIBRARY
Author Talk and Signing
March 16, 2013
YOU TUBE CLIP!

SPOKEN INTERLUDES
Authors' Talk and Dinner
with NATHAN ENGLANDER
and BLAKE BAILEY (biographer of Philip Roth)
Hastings on Hudson, NY
March 20, 2013

FOX TV interview
Yom Hashoah Commemoration
with Broadway cast of "My Name is Asher Lev"
and Rabbi Burg, Simon Wiesenthal Center
Airdate April 6, 2013

HADASSAH-BRANDEIS INSTITUTE
HBI Conversations
Lecture Series/​A Jewish Book Council Event
Baltimore MD;
Columbia, MD;
Bethesda MD
April 9-11, 2013

TEMPLE BETH EL
Fairfield, CT
Yom Hashoah/​Yom Ha'Atzmaut
Kabbalat Shabbat Lecture
Dinner to Follow
April 12, 2013

HADASSAH Book Group
Author Talk and Luncheon
Miami, FL
April 25, 2013

HADASSAH NEW YORK
at HADASSAH HOUSE
Book Talk
50 West 58 Street
May 28, 2013
12:30 PM

THE FOREST HILLS LIBRARY
Book Talk
Queens, NY
June 3, 2013

HADASSAH-BRANDEIS INSTITUTE
HBI Conversations/​A Jewish Book Council Event
Stamford, CT
June 6, 2013
7:00 PM

PRINTER'S ROW LIT FEST
Sponsored by The Chicago Tribune
Chicago, IL
Featured Author
June 8, 2013
12:00
C-SPAN BROADCAST

THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
Mid-Manhattan Branch
Reading and Discussion
June 13, 2013

FIRE ISLAND SYNAGOGUE
Author Appearance
Moderated by Rabbi Zoe Klein
July 7th, 2013

HADASSAH BOOK GROUP
Author Talk and Luncheon
Port Jefferson, NY
October 24, 2013

TENEMENT MUSEUM
New York, NY
Panel on Immigrants' Children
with author Jean Kwok
to be announced
Fall 2013

DALLAS JCC
to be announced
Fall 2013

SUNDAYS at JASA
Lecture and Discussion
John Jay College
New York, NY
December 15, 2013


PAST EVENTS for THE WATCHMAKER'S DAUGHTER

BARNES & NOBLE (Reading/​Talk)
Moderated by Boston Globe Critic/​NYT Best-Selling Author
Caroline Leavitt
October 11, 2012
New York, NY

THE FAIRFIELD LIBRARY AUTHOR'S SERIES
Talk and Luncheon
October 25th, 2012
Fairfield, CT

WOMEN READ/​WOMEN WRITE BOOK FESTIVAL
KEYNOTE Author
October 27th, 2012
The Galleria in Mount Lebanon
Pittsburgh. PA

WPKN - Binnie Klein
Full Hour Author/​Book Interview
November 1, 2012
Tune in: http:/​/​stream.wpkn.org/​

OXFORD UNIVERSITY CLUB
November 1, 2012
POSTPONED DUE TO HURRICANE SANDY
500 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10110

UNITED JEWISH FEDERATION/​JCC Stamford
TAPESTRY Lecture:
"Looking at Intermarriage"
November 17, 2012
Stamford, CT

ANNE LEVINE RADIO
Full Hour Author/​Book Interview
November, 2012

PODCAST: BEATRICE/​SHELF AWARENESS
Author's Series with RON HOGAN
LIFE STORIES: THE ART OF THE MEMOIR
Recorded on December 3, 2012
Archived as #18 in Series


PRESS/​ REVIEWS/​FEATURES:

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE raves about THE WATCHMAKER'S DAUGHTER!
(See INTERVIEW June 3, 2013)

*PEOPLE Magazine: "Heartwrenching and funny...."
*VANITY FAIR "Hot Type" (Elissa Schappell)
*READERS' DIGEST: "Don't Miss" List (Dawn Raffel)
*Jesse Kornbluth/​HEADBUTLER Top Rating
*DAN'S PAPERS (Hamptons) raves
*JEWISH JOURNAL calls THE WATCHMAKER'S DAUGHTER:
"One of the Year's BEST READS!"
*BOOKAHOLIC review (see Sonia Taitz Home Page)
*SQUIDOO website features author, recommends book
*BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES recommends THE WATCHMAKER'S DAUGHTER
*PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE (Author Story/​Profile)
*THE JERUSALEM REPORT:
Sonia Taitz is described as "new voice" in post-Holocaust literature.


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Selected Works

Literary Non-Fiction, Memoir
A memoir of growing up as the child of European immigrants who are Holocaust survivors
Fiction
This novel is a lyrical, romantic tale about the headstrong American daughter of Holocaust survivors. Seeking relief from their traumatized world, she escapes to Oxford, where she is smitten with the son of an anti-Semitic family. Amidst the drama lies a sense of magic, and healing possibility of love.
Non-fiction, memoir, social commentary/satire
The book looks at the infinite variety of supposed “experts” on child-rearing, products mothers are cautioned to buy, and advances they are urged to apply to their children (such as teaching them Latin or Mandarin in utero, or training them to be gymnasts before that first crucial year has passed). Sonia Taitz reassures mothers that they are the best experts on their children, and that the intimacy born of closeness is better than any “Mommy and Me” class or flash-card drill.

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