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About the Author
Jonathan Dunsky lives in Israel with his wife and two sons. He enjoys reading, writing, and goofing around with his kids. He began writing in his teens, then took a break for close to twenty years, during which he worked an assortment of jobs. He is the author of the Adam Lapid series and the standalone thriller The Payback Girl.
Acknowledgments
Writing a novel is no easy task, especially when you're writing about a time before you were born. For information on Israel in 1949, I used a number of resources, two of which proved particularly useful.
The first is the Israeli nostalgia website, http://www.nostal.co.il , which provides a plethora of information regarding cultural, commercial, culinary, and other kinds of history, across the decades of the existence of the modern State of Israel, and also of the time before it was established. The website, unfortunately, is almost entirely in Hebrew.
The second is a joint project of Israel's National Library and Tel Aviv University. It is a comprehensive archive of Jewish and Israeli newspapers that gave me a glimpse into the news that occupied the minds of the citizens of the new country (The Dead Sister takes place a year and a half after David Ben-Gurion declared independence).
You can access the archive at http://web.nli.org.il/sites/JPress/English/Pages/default.aspx. The languages of the newspapers archived range from Yiddish to Hebrew to Arabic to English, among others.