Naomi Frankel | |
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 Frankel in 2004 | |
| Born | 20 November 1918 Berlin, Germany |
| Died | 20 November 2009 (aged 91) Hebron, West Bank |
| Resting place | Kibbutz Beit Alfa |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Language | Hebrew |
| Alma mater | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Period | 1956–2003 |
| Notable works | Saul and Joanna trilogy (1956–1967) |
| Notable awards | Ruppin Prize (1956) |
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| Children | 1 |
Naomi Frankel (20 November 1918 – 20 November 2009), also spelled Fraenkel and Frenkel,[1] was a German-Israeli novelist. Born in Berlin, she was evacuated to Mandatory Palestine with other German-Jewish children in 1933. She became a member of Kibbutz Beit Alfa, where she lived until 1970. She began writing novels in 1956 and achieved fame with her trilogy Shaul ve-Yohannah (Saul and Joanna), a three-generational tale of an assimilated German-Jewish family in prewar Germany. She wrote four other novels for adults as well as several books for children. In the 1980s Frankel abandoned her leftist convictions and adopted right-wing ideology, settling in the West Bank,[2] where she died in 2009, aged 91.
- ^ Beit-Hallahmi, Benjamin (2012), Despair and Deliverance: Private Salvation in Contemporary Israel, SUNY Press, p. 152, ISBN 9780791496183
- ^ Curtius, Mary (12 June 1988), "After 50 Years, She Finds a Home: Zionist's search ends in Israeli settlement", The Boston Globe