Simone Zelitch Member Member since 2022

Novelist obsessed with revolution and memory

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Simone Zelitch has published five novels on subjects ranging from a medieval peasant revolt, to 1964 Freedom Summer, to Jewish history, real and imagined. Her most recent novel Judenstaat (PM Press 2020) is set in a Jewish state established in Germany rather than Palestine. Honors include a National Endowment for the Arts grant in Fiction, as well as residencies at Yaddo and the Edward Albee Barn. She has recently retired from other thirty years of teaching at Community College of Philadelphia, and is working on a novel about a student strike that took place at that institution in 1970.

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Philadelphia, PA

Birthdate:

15 December (64 years old)

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