Alvin Abram's Writing History

1998

THE LIGHT AFTER THE DARK I (Soft Cover, 244 pages)

Publisher: Key Porter Books

2003

CANADIAN JEWISH NEWS (Passover Issue)
Forgive Me

NORTHCLIFFE ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING (United Kingdom)
If Only...

2002

CREATIVE MEMORIES (Minnesota)
The Photograph Album

2001

WOMEN'S WORLD (New York)
The Photograph Album (January issue)

NORTHCLIFFE ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING (United Kingdom)
Five Gold Watches

NEW GENERATION TABLOID

• Kugler
• Touched by Love
• Forgive Me
• Growing Old
• Remember: Come Home

2000

WORDSCAPE MYSTERY ANTHOLOGY 7 (295 pages). Published by Toronto Authors Association
Jealous Bullet

JEWISH WAR VETERANS COMMEMORATIVE BOOK
A Story in Two Words

CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE PARENT'S SOUL
The Photograph Album

1999

WORDSCAPE MYSTERY ANTHOLOGY 6 (444 pages). Published by Toronto Authors Association
The Credit Card Caper

FRATERNALLY YOURS (North York)
Remember: Come Home

JEWISH WAR VETERANS COMMEMORATIVE BOOK
The Baker

CANADIAN JEWISH NEWS (Passover issue)
What If . . .

1998

WORDSCAPE MYSTERY ANTHOLOGY 5 (440 pages). Published by Toronto Authors Association
Late Again Harry

WINNERS CIRCLE (158 pages). Fifteen short stories, merit selections by Toronto Authors Association
Jonas: The Baker

NORTH YORK POST/THORNHILL POST
The Cloth Coat

JEWISH WAR VETERANS COMMEMORATIVE BOOK
The Cloth Coat

CANADIAN JEWISH NEWS (Passover issue)
The Cloth Coat

1997

WORDSCAPE MYSTERY ANTHOLOGY 4 (467 pages). Published by Toronto Authors Association

• Ta-Ta-T-A-Ta
• Growing Old
• A Story in Two Words

CANADIAN JEWISH NEWS (Passover issue)
Who's There? A Yid.

2002

ROOTS (JNF Newsletter)
One Step At A Time: The Feldberg Story

GATOR SPRINGS GAZETTE (California)
What's Underneath That Skirt?

NEW GENERATION TABLOID
Value of Newsprint (January)

2001

NEW GENERATION TABLOID

• A Reason to Die (December)
• One Person Can Make A Difference: Dr. Felicia Carmelly (November)
• Moises Ville: The Home of Jewish Gauchos (October)
• The Mystery Surrounding The Struma (September)

CANADIAN WRITER'S JOURNAL (New Liskeard)
I Fired My Agent

WRITER'S UNION OF CANADA NEWSLETTER
My Past Caught Me

CANADIAN WRITER'S JOURNAL (New Liskeard): WRITER'S UNION OF CANADA NEWSLETTER

• . . . and the Cat Gnawed Off His Tail
• You Can Never Tell a Book By Its Cover

1999

CANADIAN AUTHORS ASSOCIATION
10 Ways to Self-Publish

1994

B'NAI BRITH TRIBUNE
What It Means To Be Jewish

2002

THE MEMORIES I LIVE WITH (Memoir)

The Life of Eugene Joseph

2001

THE LIGHT AFTER THE DARK II (Soft Cover, 272 pages)

6 True Stories of Courage During the Holocaust

• Why Me, God?: Johoszua Cygelfarb
• Journey to Nowhere: Michel Mayer and his Family
• Tell Them: The Jews Are Fighting in Warsaw: Avrom Feldberg
• It's Time to Live: Josef Morgenstern
• One Person Does Make a Difference: Max Meisels
• Escape To Freedom: Ibolya and Andy Reti

1997

THE LIGHT AFTER THE DARK I (Hard Cover, 278 pages)

6 True Stories of Courage During the Holocaust

• An Eye For An Eye: Zalman Katz
• The Promises: Michael Kutz
• We Will Meet Again: Moishe Perlmutter
• I Have A Mission: Dubi Arie
• I Knew My Enemy: Michael Rosenberg
• Don't Worry: It Will Be Good: Faiga and Batia Malamud

2004

AN EYE FOR AN EYE (Soft Cover, 428 pages)

The lives of the Ackerman family.
Mystery story that takes place between 1921-1946 in Poland. The Second World War brings an answer to a crime that took place in 1921 and unravels in Birkenau.

2003

STORIES I WROTE (Soft Cover, 274 pages)

18 Stories having to do with Family, History and Mystery - most having been published before in anthologies, tabloids, magazines and newspapers.

2002

THE UNLIKELY VICTIMS (Soft Cover, 246 pages)

Six cases about a Homicide cop in Toronto
Events that unfold between an old cop and his female partner and how the cases affect their lives.

Nominated by Crime Writers of Canada for the 2002 Arthur Ellis Award for the Best New Fiction and optioned for Canadian Television.

2000

WHY, ZAIDA? (Hard Cover, 32 pages)

Children's illustrated book, using metaphors to explain the Holocaust.

AN ORDINARY WOMAN IN EXTRAORDINARY TIMES: The Story of Ibolya Reti
Published by the The Multicultural Society of Ontario (1990)
A portion from the manuscript Escape to Freedom.

 

THE BOYS by Sir Martin Gilbert
Published by Douglas & McIntyre (1996)
Portions of one story from the manuscript of Josh Segal: Why Me, God?

THE MINYAN (AN EYE FOR AN EYE Sequel)

In 2000, a young female reporter tries to solve a thirty-year-old murder in Toronto and her grandfather's part in a mystery in Berkinau extermination camp in 1944.

 

. . . AND THE BEAT GOES ON

Another in a series about Detective Gabe Garshowitz and Iris Forester. Six more cases that are linked to a common end.

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2002-2004 Holocaust Education Week (Toronto)

1999-2002, 2004 Word On The Street (Toronto)

1999 Leo Baeck Jewish Book Fair (Thornhill)

1998 Survivors of the Shoah (Toronto), Jewish Book Fair (North York)

1997 Holocaust Education Week (North York)

Ontario

• York University
• University of Western Ontario

Chapters & Indigo

Toronto, Thornhill, Richmond Hill, Windsor

McNally Robinson Booksellers

Saskatoon

2004 Mind Benders (Toronto) Newmarket Public Library (Newmarket) Kehillat Shaarei Torah (Toronto) Adath Israel Synagogue (Toronto) 2003 Beth Emeth Bais Yehuda Synagogue (Toronto) Lake Wilcox Elementary School (Richmond Hill) Adath Israel Synagogue (Toronto) Na'amat (Club Massada) (Toronto) OISIE College (Toronto) Muirhead Public School (Toronto) Baythorn Elementary School (Thornhill) 2002 Beth David B'nai Israel (Toronto) Bernard Betel Centre (Toronto) Holy Blossom Temple (Toronto) Chavara (Toronto) Aldergrove Public School (Toronto) Cawthra Park Secondary School (Mississauga) 2001 PAL (Toronto) Holy Blossom Temple Retirement Club (Toronto) Beth Emeth Bais Yehuda Sisterhood (Toronto) Mind Benders (Thornhill) Holy Blossom Temple Brotherhood (Toronto) Beth Tikvah Synagogue (Toronto) Holy Blossom Religious School (Toronto) Beth David B'nai Israel Sisterhood (Toronto) Sha'aron Jewish Women International (Toronto) Temple Kol Ami Brotherhood (Thornhill) 2000 Shaar Shalom Synagogue (Thornhill) Temple Har Zion (Thornhill) Widows or Widowers (North York) Temple Emmanuel School (North York) Vaughan Public Libraries (Vaughan) Willowbrook Public School (Vaughan)

1999 Beit Rayam Congregation (Thornhill) Temple Anshe Shalom (Hamilton) Sephardic Educational Centre (Thornhill) B'nai Shalom V'Tikvah (Ajax) Beth Tikvah (North York) Beth Emeth Bais Yehuda (North York) Adath Sholom Synagogue (North York) Temple Kol Ami (Thornhill) Saskatchewan Jewish Centre (Regina) Congregation Agudas Israel (Saskatoon) Edmonton Jewish Centre (Edmonton) Calgary Jewish Centre (Calgary) N.C.J.W. Surburban Study Branch (North York) N.C.J.W. Orah Study Branch (Richmond Hill) Bernard Betel Centre (North York) Thornlea High School (Richmond Hill) Congregation Agudas Israel Sisterhood (Saskatoon) Fifty-Five Plus Club (Toronto) Seniors Group (Edmonton) B'nai Brith (Calgary) Na'amat (Club Massada) (Toronto) Leo Baeck School (Thornhill) Thom Collegiate (Regina) Campbell Collegiate (Regina) R. H. King Academy (Scarborough) 1998 Beth David B'nai Israel Beth Am (North York) Obev Shalom Congregation (South Orange, N.J.) Congregation Agudath Israel (Caldwell, N.J.) B'nai Brith Youth Organization (Toronto) United Synagogue Day School (Toronto) Renana Hadassah Chapter (Toronto) Jewish Women International (Toronto) National Council of Jewish Women (Toronto) Thornlea High School (Richmond Hill) Jewish Community Centre (Windsor)