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Ruchama King Feuerman

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Ruchama King Feuerman was born in Nashville, grew up in Virginia and Maryland, and when she was seventeen, bought a one-way ticket to Israel to seek her spiritual fortune. Seven Blessings (St. Martin’s Press), her celebrated first novel about match-making, earned her the praise of the New York Times and the Dallas Morning News, and Kirkus Reviews dubbed her "the Jewish Jane Austen." She wrote her second novel, In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist, with the help of grants from the Christopher Isherwood Foundation and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and it will be published in September 2013 by NYRB Lit, a new e-book series from the New York Review of Books devoted to publishing contemporary books of literary merit from around the worl ...more

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Hosting Summer Fiction Contest (2019) -- Got stories?

Does anyone have unpublished short stories between 1,500 and 3,000 words that pull you in and won't let you go till the end?

For years I bugged and begged editors of frum magazines. Have a fiction contest. Reward and honor the great frum writers out there. Yay for Ami which heeded my call.

It's happening this summer. Eight stories will be chosen (by me) for the July and August summer issues o

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	In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist 3.76 avg rating — 550 ratings — published 2013 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Seven Blessings 3.63 avg rating — 465 ratings — published 2003 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mountain Jews and the Mirror by Ruchama King Feuerman (Goodreads Author), Polona Kosec (Illustrations), Marcela Calderón (Illustrations) 3.53 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2015 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Rebbetzin's Courtyard 3.45 avg rating — 11 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist 4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Everyone's Got a Story 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Marvelous Mixup: and other tales of Reb Shalom by Ruchama King Feuerman (Goodreads Author), Vitaly Romanenko (Illustrator) 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bina Lobell's Super Secret Diary 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The secret of the Hotel DelaRosa 2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1996	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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I read this...I don't know what to call it--memoir? Partly, but no. Soulful fascinating journey? Yes, but that's not exactly a genre. Anyway, I read it maybe thirty-five years ago, thumbed through it till its spine broke, because it's just that kind ...more
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“He chuckled. “Be focused. Direct all your thoughts to one point. Let the prayers take effect. Let them change you into a new person, Tamar. Just like Moses, after forty days of talking to God on Sinai, became a new being.” The tabby crept past and squeezed between his legs.”
― Ruchama King Feuerman, In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist

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“She might’ve asked a rabbi or teacher to help her interpret these verses, but she never could bring herself to approach anyone. It was like sharing her mess, opening up the fridge for the world to see the spilled juice, the rotting, moldy food. So she had settled into a chronic religious anxiety while staying connected by whatever means—more meticulous observance of the laws, increased prayer—until, she hoped, she would feel differently.”
― Ruchama King Feuerman, Seven Blessings: A Novel

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“After years spent polishing their phrases and explaining their religion so that the foreign powers would tolerate their presence, the religious Jews had tired of living apologetically. Now in their own land, they reveled in “telling it like it is,”
― Ruchama King Feuerman, Seven Blessings: A Novel

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