An Australian Jewish author's triumph over antisemitism

(JNS) - After facing a flood of antisemitism in the publishing world, Australian writer Linda Margolin Royal brought her Holocaust story to Jerusalem, turning adversity into triumph.

Royal, a former advertising copywriter in Australia, flew to Israel to launch her bestselling debut novel, "The Star on the Grave," at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem, on Sept. 30.

Released last year, Royal's historical fiction novel is based on her family's true story of how an altruistic gentile saved her family during the Holocaust. On Aug. 24, the book won the inaugural Szymon (Simon) Klitenik...