Rec­om­mend­ed Reading

Look­ing for­ward to 2011: Qui­et Americans

Nao­mi Firestone-Teeter
August 20, 2010

Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-Teeter

JBC friend, author, and blog­ger Eri­ka Drei­fus just launched the web­site for her first work of fic­tion, Qui­et Americans

A high-rank­ing Nazi’s wife and a Jew­ish doc­tor in pre­war Berlin. A Jew­ish immi­grant sol­dier and the Ger­man POWs he is assigned to super­vise. A refugee return­ing to Europe for the first time just as ter­ror­ists mas­sacre Israeli ath­letes at the 1972 Munich Olympics. A son of sur­vivors and the fam­i­ly secrets mod­ern tech­nol­o­gy may reveal. These are some of the char­ac­ters and con­flicts that emerge in Qui­et Amer­i­cans, in sto­ries that reframe famil­iar ques­tions about what is right and wrong, remem­bered and repressed, resolved and unending.

Read more about the book on her shiny, new web­site, includ­ing an excerpt.

Orig­i­nal­ly from Lan­cast­er, Penn­syl­va­nia, Nao­mi is the CEO of Jew­ish Book Coun­cil. She grad­u­at­ed from Emory Uni­ver­si­ty with degrees in Eng­lish and Art His­to­ry and, in addi­tion, stud­ied at Uni­ver­si­ty Col­lege Lon­don. Pri­or to her role as exec­u­tive direc­tor and now CEO, Nao­mi served as the found­ing edi­tor of the JBC web­site and blog and man­ag­ing edi­tor of Jew­ish Book World. In addi­tion, she has over­seen JBC’s dig­i­tal ini­tia­tives, and also devel­oped the JBC’s Vis­it­ing Scribe series and Unpack­ing the Book: Jew­ish Writ­ers in Conversation.

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