The Legacy of Karen Gershon: Child Survivor to Author and Poet

About Naomi Anne Shmuel

An established British-Israeli author living in Israel Dr Naomi Anne Shmuel has published 17 books mostly for children (4 for adults). She has been awarded many literary and academic prizes including the Levi Eshkol Prime Minister's prize for literature (2011). Shmuel specializes in anti-bias education and training professionals for working with human diversity. Several of her publications provide practical resources for educators working with heterogenous classrooms in schools and academia. The findings of her research while at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on intergenerational relations and cultural transmission in Ethiopian immigrant families in Israel were recently published by Springer: Children's Wellbeing in Immigrant Families (2023). With several articles on the effects of the Holocaust on the second generation and postmemory Shmuel's recent research on her mother's biography - child survivor author and poet Karen Gershon - has been conducted while she was a research fellow at the Arnold and Leona Finkler Institute of Holocaust Research Bar Ilan University Israel.