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Daniella Levy

Author, Translator, Educator

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Writing

Books

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  • Disengagement (Kasva Press, 2020; literary fiction): When the Israeli government orders all Jewish communities in the Gaza Strip destroyed, Neve Adva becomes the unlikely crossroads where very different worlds collide and lives are changed forever.
  • By Light of Hidden Candles (Kasva Press, 2017; historical fiction): A Jewish American and a Catholic Spaniard travel to Madrid together to research their family histories, and what they discover in the Spanish archives forces them to confront the truth about who they are and what their faiths mean to them…
  • Letters to Josep: An Introduction to Judaism (Guiding Light Press, 2016; nonfiction): A collection of letters from an Orthodox Jew (yours truly) to a Christian friend in Barcelona about Judaism

Blogs

  • Letters to Josep: A collection of letters to a Christian friend in Barcelona about Judaism and life in Israel
  • The Rejection Survival Guide: Meditations on cultivating “creative resilience”–resilience against the rejection, criticism, and self-doubt that are part and parcel of a creative life
  • My author blog: Writer ponderings, background information on my work, and general updates
  • My blog on The Times of Israel: Opinion pieces on current events

Short Fiction

  • Reengagement (THEMA, 2019): A cantankerous bereaved mother is determined to give her obnoxious new neighbors a piece of her mind… but in so doing, finds her own perceptions changing
  • Cockatoo Tears (Qu, 2018): A little girl’s sudden obsession with saving the rainforest forces her mother to confront some uncomfortable truths
  • Scarf Sisters (arc-25, 2017): An Israeli settler and a Palestinian woman bond over their identical headscarves… until the political chaos around them intervenes
  • The Wedding Dress (Rathalla Review, 2017): An Ethiopian-Israeli terror survivor plans an elaborate wedding… unbeknownst to her distant husband
  • Shattered Glass (Newfound, 2017; nominated for the Pushcart Prize): A car crash and a paradigm shift on the road between Jerusalem and Hebron
  • The Olive Harvest (Reckoning, 2016): Violent conflict and seeds for peace in the Middle East, as told by an olive tree
  • Immersion (Jewish Literary Journal, 2016): A religious Jewish woman finds an unusual way to cope with heartbreak

Articles

  • Writer’s Digest
  • Pnima Magazine (in Hebrew)
  • The Forward
  • Ynet News (in Hebrew)
  • Kveller
  • Aish.com
  • The Jewish Examiner
  • Hevria
  • J-Wire
  • JewishMOM.com
  • IngramSpark Blog
  • Bizness Magazine

Poetry

  • Wildflowers & Just Before Waking (arc-27, 2020)
  • Before the Next War & Things I Ignore at My Kid’s Birthday Party (arc-26, 2019)
  • The Cracks That Divide Us: A Poem on Fallen Rock (The Times of Israel, 2018)
  • Translucent (Love Like Salt anthology, 2018)
  • Ghosts (Love Like Salt anthology, 2018; originally posted on Letters to Josep)
  • Barco de Papel/Paper Boat (Chachalaca Review, 2017; Spanish/English)
  • From the Graves of My Ancestors (Stonecoast Review, 2017)
  • Stardust (2017 Mizmor L’David Anthology, Poetica Publishing, 2018)
  • A LiveJournal Entry at 17 (Silver Birch Press, 2017)
  • Repair & Tomorrow (Shaharitekoa Journal of Literature and Art, 2014; Hebrew)
  • Stock-Photo Woman (Veils, Halos & Shackles: International Poetry on the Oppression & Empowerment of Women, Kasva Press, 2016)
  • Glass and Iron (spoken word performance at “Verses Against Violence”; Hebrew with English subtitles)
  • Blessed Be the True Judge (posted on Letters to Josep)

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Disengagement

Disengagement

In other times, they would never have met. They come from different corners of Israeli society, rooted in their own beliefs, busy with their own troubles. Farmers and fishermen, skeptics and believers, immigrants and natives, children and grandparents struggle with faith, loss, jealousy, hope—and the turmoil around them only deepens the rifts that divide them. […]

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  • A very happy memory from the good old days when you could still travel to visit family and see stuff
    2 years ago
    A very happy memory from the good old days when you could still travel to visit family and see stuff
  • Yesterday, what is probably the loveliest, most touching "fan letter" I
    2 years ago
    Yesterday, what is probably the loveliest, most touching "fan letter" I've ever received arrived in my inbox. A reader happened
  • #LetterstoJosep is being featured in the Zionist Book Festival at the University of Missouri next week, hosted by the MU
    2 years ago
     #LetterstoJosep  is being featured in the Zionist Book Festival at the University of Missouri next week, hosted by the MU
  • A message for our times, from The Rejection Survival Guide. Link to new post--"Hope in the Time of Coronavirus"--in bio.
    2 years ago
    A message for our times, from The Rejection Survival Guide. Link to new post--"Hope in the Time of Coronavirus"--in bio.
  • Dose 2 V for vaccine & victory against COVID-19! Blessed is He who has given us life and sustained us
    1 year ago
    Dose 2 V for vaccine & victory against COVID-19! Blessed is He who has given us life and sustained us
  • Reading the eyewitness accounts from the Dizengoff shooting last night reminded me of this moment from Disengagement: a throwback to
    2 months ago
    Reading the eyewitness accounts from the Dizengoff shooting last night reminded me of this moment from Disengagement: a throwback to
  • 15 years. What have we learned?⁣ ⁣ I don
    2 years ago
    15 years. What have we learned?⁣ ⁣ I don't know about the nation as a whole. But this book is
  • I was truly devastated to learn of the passing of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks זצ"ל yesterday. Rabbi Sacks was a
    2 years ago
    I was truly devastated to learn of the passing of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks זצ"ל yesterday. Rabbi Sacks was a
  • Did I ever imagine I would get my picture on the front page of the @nytimes ? No, I did
    7 months ago
    Did I ever imagine I would get my picture on the front page of the  @nytimes  ? No, I did
  • Sound on for a little taste of Lori
    2 years ago
    Sound on for a little taste of Lori's wonderful performance of  #ByLightofHiddenCandles . The  #audiobook  comes out on Audible and Amazon
  • #shabbatshalom
    10 months ago
     #shabbatshalom 
  • This is the moment Grandpa always mentioned, every time I saw him as an adult: me, 5 years old, hoisted
    1 year ago
    This is the moment Grandpa always mentioned, every time I saw him as an adult: me, 5 years old, hoisted
  • After some COVID-related delays, including the narrator getting stuck in another state (!) and having to set up a whole
    2 years ago
    After some COVID-related delays, including the narrator getting stuck in another state (!) and having to set up a whole
  • They always said I was a strange bird #happypurim #whenlifegivesyoumasks #makeapurimcostume #pandemicpurim
    1 year ago
    They always said I was a strange bird  #happypurim   #whenlifegivesyoumasks   #makeapurimcostume   #pandemicpurim 
  • Just sold the very last copy of #LetterstoJosep in my personal stock. Don
    2 years ago
    Just sold the very last copy of  #LetterstoJosep  in my personal stock. Don't worry, it's still freely available online, and
  • A week ago, just before Shabbat/Succot, I welcomed my fourth child--first daughter--into a crazy, upside-down world. Waiting for her arrival
    2 years ago
    A week ago, just before Shabbat/Succot, I welcomed my fourth child--first daughter--into a crazy, upside-down world. Waiting for her arrival
  • Just gonna take this #santjordi2020 opportunity to shamelessly brag that @carlespuigdemont, former president of Catalonia, has a copy of my
    2 years ago
    Just gonna take this  #santjordi2020  opportunity to shamelessly brag that  @carlespuigdemont , former president of Catalonia, has a copy of my
  • A clip from the fascinating conversation I was privileged to participate in last Thursday on The Round Table Talk Show
    6 months ago
    A clip from the fascinating conversation I was privileged to participate in last Thursday on The Round Table Talk Show
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    10 months ago
    Mood.  #sunset   #judeanhills   #chodeshtov   #elul 
  • Sound on to hear a preview from my conversation with Rav Mike Feuer on The Jewish Story about my new
    2 years ago
    Sound on to hear a preview from my conversation with Rav Mike Feuer on The Jewish Story about my new

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