Michelle Favero – Marketing and Communications Manager

We recently welcomed 120 people to the School to celebrate the launch of Shira Sebban’s book, Unlocking the Past: Stories From my Mother’s Diary, in conjunction with Shalom Sydney Writers Festival.Most of you will know Shira as a long-term Board member and mother of Raphael (class of 2015), Gabriel (Year 12) and Jonathan (Year 10) Sebban.

We were very lucky to hear from Israeli Embassy Spokesperson and Cultural Attaché, Dorit Herscovici, and UNSW Associate Professor, Leanne Piggott, both of whom officially launched Shira’s collection of creative non-fiction short stories. The book is based on Shira’s mother’s diary, which was only discovered by Shira and her sister after her mother’s death and gives us an interesting insight into life in Israel in the mid 1950s.

If you missed out, you can purchase a copy of Unlocking the Past: Stories From my Mother’s Diary from Golds, the Sydney Jewish Museum or Lindfield Bookshop or online from Amazon (e-book) or Mazo Publishers (paper back) or you can borrow it from our High School’s Maria Tirabosco Library.

To access the video of the launch, visit https://youtu.be/-uT60qTi8Z8