Posts by Jan Eliasberg
EDITH WARNER’S CHOCOLATE CAKE
Edith Warner lived in a little house beside Otawi Bridge. During the Manhattan Project years, she operated a small tearoom in her home, always frequented by Los Alamos scientists. Oppenheimer recognized that his research and project teams needed to feel appreciated…and well-fed. He arranged for Edith to have access to otherwise-rationed supplies; she was given…
Read MoreJuly 16th Trinity Test Birthday: New Content for Book Clubs
July 16th will mark the 75th anniversary of the first atomic test, known as Trinity. The day is rightly known as the day the world changed forever, entering into the “nuclear age.”
Read MoreNew for Book Clubs: Virtual appearances and downloads
You need a mention in the first words what this news is. I’m thrilled to have a new section on the website designed and built specifically for book clubs. Downloads for bookclubs and book-a-virtual appearance. There is nothing I love more than talking with Book Clubs about Hannah’s War; the dynamic engagement with readers bring the characters, the story, and the themes of Hannah’s War to life. I have done many Virtual Q and A’s with Book Clubs on Zoom and Skype; the conversations are inspiring and enthralling for both writer and readers. Find out more on the new Book Club page!
Read More5/13: Join Jan Eliasberg and Martha Hall Kelly on Facebook Live!
Tune in at 4:00 PM EST/ 1:00 PM PST on Martha Hall Kelly’s Facebook Page to join the discussion.
Read More5/12: A Read of The Day book club Zoom event with Jan Eliasberg and Rick Koster
Tue, May 12, 2020, 6:30 PM EDT Bank Square Books and The Day present a Q&A with author Jan Eliasberg for her new book, Hannah’s War. Jan will be in conversation with Rick Koster of The Day as part of a new book club, Read of The Day, co-hosted by The Day and Bank Square…
Read MoreNew Article in The Day: Novelist Jan Eliasberg reimagines amazing story of female physicist and the atomic bomb
Novelists are routinely inspired by big moments and charismatic figures from history. But a brief allusion to an anonymous person in a 75-year-old newspaper article? Not so much. And yet Jan Eliasberg, an award-winning screenwriter and director of film and television, was perusing microfilm in the New York Public Library and came across an issue…
Read MorePrestige publisher Ambo/Anthos has won the rights to publish HANNAH’S WAR in Dutch.
Ambo/Anthos publishes such luminaries as Michael Chabon; Elena Ferrante, and Stieg Larsson. The acquiring editor wrote: “The characters are nuanced and full of depth. HANNAH’S WAR offers another facet to the literature about this dark history and shows that the world is not easily divided into black and white, but that there’s also an enormous scale…
Read MoreConnecting Book Clubs
an Eliasberg introduces free downloads and tools for book clubs to connect with her and her book, Hannah’s War.
There is nothing I love more than talking with Book Clubs about Hannah’s War; the dynamic engagement with readers bring the characters, the story, and the themes of Hannah’s War to life. I have done many Virtual Q and A’s with Book Clubs on Zoom and Skype; the conversations are inspiring and enthralling for both writer and readers.
Read MoreBook tip: “Hannah’s War,” Jan Eliasberg
A few years ago, author Jan Eliasberg read a clip that appeared in the New York Times on the day American forces dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. One sentence alluded to an unnamed female, non-Aryan physicist without whose work on molecular fission the bomb could not have been made.
Read MoreDR. LISE MEITNER: THE MYSTERY OF THE DISAPPEARING PHYSICIST
In the August 7, 1945 issue of the New York Times under the headline: FIRST ATOMIC BOMB DROPPED ON JAPAN; TRUMAN WARNS FOE OF A ‘RAIN OF RUIN,’” an article traces the simultaneously terrifying and wondrous development of the atomic bomb, its scientific history, and the race between the Allies and the Germans to attain the ultimate weapon. Somewhere under the fold, buried in a dense paragraph, this sentence appears: “The key component that allowed the Allies to develop the bomb was brought to the Allies by a female, ‘non-Aryan’ physicist.” Who was this woman?
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