Rochelle's Writing Endeavors
02-28-2006, 08:53 PM
:tallit: I am starting this thread at Helena's urging. I'm not sure where to begin and have been so busy with writing that I haven't been here for a while.
The play was called "The First Nights of Hanukkah"...it was a play in three acts...all acts took place on the first night of Hanukkah. The first act is all comic...Orthodox Jewish boy meets girl who sings...her father is a Yeshiva professor who is playing matchmaker between his student and his daughter.
The second act takes place in hiding in Nazi Germany. Joe and Shifra, the young couple, now married with two daughters, leave the comfort of Kansas City to try and rescue her brother and family. They are unsuccessful and end up going through the holocaust themselves.
Third act is back in KC...Joe is alone with his daughters...hasn't heard from Shifra in a year...it's now 1946. It does have a happy, if not tearful ending. Even Jan, my husband shed a few tears. :yay:
The novel has been all encompassing since December. I think this is going to be a saga because presently I'm on Chapter 44 in the first book which is about Joe's parents, their meeting in Moldavia in Eastern Europe, their survival of the Kishinev pogrom in April 1903 and subsequent immigration to the US. I decided on Kansas City because that's where my grandfather ended up in 1903.
This has been fun, educational and totally consuming. Jan says he's learned how to keep himself entertained. The working title of the book is "Please Say Kaddish for Me" :jew:
I do believe, at the expense of spiritualizing, that this book is also a call on my life. As for publishing, I haven't gotten that far yet. I'm not sure where to begin..although I've gotten plenty of unsolicited advice.
We, my collaborator (only on the play, not the books) and I, want to get the play published in any case. We will be putting on the same play this coming Hanukkah and have a possible outside venue or two. It was actually written with Jewish outreach in mind.
One of the miracles about the play was our rabbi's skepticism about the plot. He didn't think it was plausable to have an American couple going to Germany and going through the camps. On the first night of the play, however, we were visited by a holocaust survivor (now a believer in Yeshua) who said that not only could our story happen, it did...in the thousands!!! He said he could even give me names! Now that's G-d!
I guess that's enough for now. If you have questions, feel free to ask. If you are publisher and are interested in seeing the work...puh-lease feel free to write!
How's that Helena?
Rochelle :notworthy:
The play was called "The First Nights of Hanukkah"...it was a play in three acts...all acts took place on the first night of Hanukkah. The first act is all comic...Orthodox Jewish boy meets girl who sings...her father is a Yeshiva professor who is playing matchmaker between his student and his daughter.
The second act takes place in hiding in Nazi Germany. Joe and Shifra, the young couple, now married with two daughters, leave the comfort of Kansas City to try and rescue her brother and family. They are unsuccessful and end up going through the holocaust themselves.
Third act is back in KC...Joe is alone with his daughters...hasn't heard from Shifra in a year...it's now 1946. It does have a happy, if not tearful ending. Even Jan, my husband shed a few tears. :yay:
The novel has been all encompassing since December. I think this is going to be a saga because presently I'm on Chapter 44 in the first book which is about Joe's parents, their meeting in Moldavia in Eastern Europe, their survival of the Kishinev pogrom in April 1903 and subsequent immigration to the US. I decided on Kansas City because that's where my grandfather ended up in 1903.
This has been fun, educational and totally consuming. Jan says he's learned how to keep himself entertained. The working title of the book is "Please Say Kaddish for Me" :jew:
I do believe, at the expense of spiritualizing, that this book is also a call on my life. As for publishing, I haven't gotten that far yet. I'm not sure where to begin..although I've gotten plenty of unsolicited advice.
We, my collaborator (only on the play, not the books) and I, want to get the play published in any case. We will be putting on the same play this coming Hanukkah and have a possible outside venue or two. It was actually written with Jewish outreach in mind.
One of the miracles about the play was our rabbi's skepticism about the plot. He didn't think it was plausable to have an American couple going to Germany and going through the camps. On the first night of the play, however, we were visited by a holocaust survivor (now a believer in Yeshua) who said that not only could our story happen, it did...in the thousands!!! He said he could even give me names! Now that's G-d!
I guess that's enough for now. If you have questions, feel free to ask. If you are publisher and are interested in seeing the work...puh-lease feel free to write!
How's that Helena?
Rochelle :notworthy:
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