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Rachel Elizabeth Meller (born 6 July 1953) is a British author.[1]
Early life and education
editMeller was born in London to Jewish refugees from Vienna, who came to England in 1939.[2] Soon after her father Josef Meller's arrival to the United Kingdom as a teenager, he was interned as an "enemy alien" at Mooragh Camp in Ramsey on the Isle of Man.[3][4] Her mother, Ilse Epstein, grew up in Vienna’s Leopoldstadt district. Postnatal depression led to her suicide a few months after Meller’s birth.[5]
Meller is trained as a neuroscientist,[6] with an undergraduate degree from the University of Sussex[7][8] and a doctorate from Cambridge University.[8][1]
Career
editMeller authored The Box with the Sunflower Clasp, a creative nonfiction narrative of her Viennese family’s time in World War II Shanghai, and a portrayal of the broader German-speaking refugee community there.[1] Published by Icon Books in 2023,[9] Cambridge critic Anne Garvey described the Box with the Sunflower Clasp as “a profound book… as absorbing as any William Boyd novel,"[10] while other reviewers praised it as “engaging”[11] and "a remarkable story of survival and resilience".[6] Meller’s speaking engagements and interviews include at the Wiener Library,[12] Cambridge University,[13] Times radio,[14] BBC radio,[15] and Book Week,[16] London’s longest-running literary festival.
References
edit- ^ a b c "How Cambridge author's family fled Nazi Germany for Shanghai". Cambridge Independent. 7 July 2023.
- ^ "Rachel Meller". Jewish Book Council.
- ^ "A Family History Unfolded". World Jewish Relief. 18 February 2022.
- ^ https://ajr.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/6490-AJR-Journal-September-2023-v8.pdf
- ^ Schwartz, Casey (26 November 2022). "A Timely Biography Traces Joseph Roth's Accounts of Fascism". The New York Times.
- ^ a b "The Box with the Sunflower Clasp". Jewish Book Council. 2023.
- ^ "Guest blog: Rachel Meller on Uncovering the story of Shanghai's Second World War Jewish refugees | Visualising China".
- ^ a b "Icon unboxes history of Jewish refugees in Shanghai". The Bookseller.
- ^ "The Box with the Sunflower Clasp". Icon Books.
- ^ "The Box with the Sunflower Clasp by Rachel Meller". The Cambridge Critique. 15 May 2023.
- ^ https://literaryreview.co.uk/safe-haven-china
- ^ "Book Talk: The Box with the Sunflower Clasp – Jewish flight to Shanghai, by Rachel Meller". YouTube.
- ^ "Tuesday Talk: The Box with the Sunflower Clasp, Rachel Meller, Author and retired business writer". www.nvs.admin.cam.ac.uk. 4 September 2023.
- ^ "Who were the Shanghai Jews? The story of over 20,000 Jewish people who fled from the Nazis to China". YouTube.
- ^ "BBC Radio Cambridgeshire - Chris Mann, 22/08/2023, the Box with the Sunflower Clasp". BBC. 22 August 2023.
- ^ "Book Week 24 | the Box with the Sunflower Clasp". Jewish Literary Foundation.
- 1953 births
- Living people
- 21st-century British Jews
- 21st-century British non-fiction writers
- 21st-century British women writers
- Alumni of the University of Cambridge
- Alumni of the University of Sussex
- British people of Austrian-Jewish descent
- British women non-fiction writers
- Jewish British writers
- Jewish non-fiction writers
- Jewish women writers
- Writers from London