Hanna Geshelin
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Publishing |
| Occupation | Writer - Teacher |
| Location | Ma'alot-Tarshiha, Galil Tzafon, Israel |
| Introduction | Now an Israeli, my birthplace and home until 2017 was the USA (outside of 15 months in Israel in 1968-69). Unlike most American Jews, I lived most of my life in communities with small Jewish populations. This strongly influenced my perception of both America and the American Jewish experience. As a writer, my primary interest is breaking the isolation from Judaism felt by many small-town Jewish kids, as well as promoting understanding between small-town and urban Jewish children and Jewish and non-Jewish kids. |
| Interests | Jewish culture history and religion, writing, sewing; quilting |
| Favorite movies | Having been terrified by my very first movie, a cartoon of The Three Little Kittens, I have never resolved my movie PTSD and avoid the medium. |
| Favorite music | Lee Ann Womak- I Hope You Dance, Cesar Franck-Violin Sonata |
| Favorite books | The Secret Garden, A Little Princess, Doing No Harm, Welcome to Harmony |
Which is more important to you and why: flexibility or expandability?
Expandability--moving on to incorporate more into myself--used to be very important, but kept me from focusing on one thing. Now older, flexibility matters more: moving among the things I learned in my expanding days; bending over and stretching to pull the things I gathered when I focused on expandability together in interesting and useful ways.