by Talila Kosh Wollner (Author), Mirjam Meerschwam Hadar (Translator)
Decades after that war, when she was hospitalized in a psychiatric ward suffering from deep depression, Marta Wollner, a Holocaust survivor, wrote her memoir. Comprising a an intimate and historical testimony, a literary/fictive biography, and an auto-fiction novella, Marta's Notebooks reflects on the profound impact of trauma and the depth of a mother's relationship with her daughter.
Author Biography
Talila Kosh Wollner, a retired lecturer in Hebrew Literature at Kibbutzim College of Education, Tel Aviv, Israel, has published several academic books and articles dedicated to Israeli literature with a focus on second generation Holocaust literature, including Mnemosyne's Voice (2008; in Hebrew), which is based on her doctoral dissertation and offers a critical feminist reading of this corpus. Recently, she has been writing literary prose, mainly short stories. Marta's Notebooks, originally published in Hebrew in 2021, is her first novel. She currently resides in Ra'anana, Israel, where she also teaches yoga and Tai-Qhi-Quan.