About the author

Edith Zack

<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">Edith Zack was born in Slovakia in 1947 to Holocaust survivor parents and came to Israel with them in 1949.&nbsp;</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;" /> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">She holds a PhD in musicology from Bar Ilan University together with Edinburgh University. Zack has lectured in the music departments of Bar-Ilan University and Beit Berl College, as well as giving music therapy in a number of frameworks for problem youth.&nbsp;</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;" /> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">As a scholar, she is an expert on women in music and the semiotics of music; she has given lectures in Oxford, the Sorbonne, Helsinki, Mexico, the USA, the Vatican, and has published articles in major professional journals.&nbsp;</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;" /> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">Her first novel &#39;Travels with Vera&#39; was published in 2011.&nbsp;</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;" /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;" /> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">www.edithzack.com</span></p>