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Fass Speakers Bureau (FSB) |
Yehuda Koren
Residence : Jerusalem, Israel
Biographical information
Yehuda Koren, a journalist and author, was born in Israel, studied Jewish History and Sociology at the Hebrew University, and Television Drama Production in Scotland. For many years, he was a documentary editor, producer and director at IBA, and several of his programs won prizes. He was a historical consultant in several British documentary films and programs, produced by Channel 4 and the BBC.
Koren writes features for the British, Israeli and German press, and his work was published in much acclaimed newspapers, like the Saturday Times, the Guardian, The Daily Telegraph and Die Welt.
Discussion topics
- The Seven Dwarves of Auschwitz--Not simply another Holocaust account but an extraordinary survival tale of how the weakest of the weak--seven siblings, each only 90 cm tall--overcame all odds. Based on Yehuda Koren's book entitled In Our Heart We Were Giants (co-authored by Eilat Negev), The Seven Dwarves of Auschwitz tells the story of a group of highly successful performers, who had their own traveling theatre, endured Auschwitz, and succeeded in rescuing 13 other people from the concentration camp.
- Sleeping with the Enemy-A foray into the forbidden liaisons between Jewish girls and British soldiers in Palestine in the 1940s, Koren tell the story of the children given up for adoption, who are now looking for their British fathers. He presents this unknown and intriguing chapter in Israeli history, with dramatic ingredients such as love, betrayal, danger, loyalty, the agony of cross-adoption, and the fate of women who decided to follow their hearts while abroad, keeping their Israeli identity.
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