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Meryl chats with Michelle about her novel, Beyond The Ghetto Gates, which tells the little known story of how Napoleon liberated the Jewish Ghetto in Ancona, Italy. Michelle Cameron is the award-winning author of works of historical fiction and poetry: including Beyond the Ghetto Gates (2020), The Fruit of Her Hands: The Story of Shira of Ashkenaz (2009), and In the Shadow of the Globe (2003). Beyond the Ghetto Gates won a Silver medal for Historical Fiction, The Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs); was First Place, Best in Category for the Chanticleer Goethe Awards; and was a finalist in the 2020 Foreword Indies. Michelle lived in Israel for fifteen years (including three weeks in a bomb shelter during the Yom Kippur War) and served as an officer in the Israeli army teaching air force cadets technical English. She is a director of The Writers Circle, an NJ-based organization that offers creative writing programs to children, teens, and adults. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and has two grown children. Website: https://michelle-cameron.com Facebook Author page: https://www.facebook.com/michellecameronauthor/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/michellecameronwriter/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/mcameron_writer On People of the Book, award-winning author Meryl Ain chats with notable authors, and brings you the best in books with Jewish content. From novels to memoirs to short stories to scholarly tomes, we cover a wide range of reads. Our freewheeling conversations are thought provoking and intimate. They span historical themes, contemporary issues, the writing process, and the influences that inspire and empower writers to tell their stories and share them with the world. Meryl is the award-winning author of The Takeaway Men, a post-Holocaust novel. The sequel will be published in April 2023. She is also the founder of the Facebook group, Jews Love To Read! People of the Book is a copyrighted work © of Meryl Ain and Authors on The Air Global Radio Network. Website: merylain.com/ https://www.facebook.com/PeopleOfTheBookWithMerylAin facebook.com/MerylAinAuthor/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/455865462463744 Twitter: @DrMerylAin Instagram: meryl_ain @Copyright by Authors on the Air Global Radio Network #AuthorsOnTheAir #AuthorsOnTheAirGlobalRadioNetwork #AOTA #[MichelleCameron #BeyondtheGhettoGates #HistoricalFiction #PeopleoftheBook #MerylAin #TheTakeawayMen #TheWritingLife #HistoricalResearch #JewishHistoricalFiction #LetsTalkJewishBooks #JewsLoveToRead #Ketubah #Napoleon #NapoleonandtheJews #JewishGhettoItaly