Pevzner, Keren

Kira Konovalova was born on May 8, 1961 in Baku . Comes from a family of hereditary Baku oil workers. Her great-grandfathers were European experts (Jews and Germans) who participated in the development of the Caspian field by the Nobel brothers at the invitation of Zeynalabdin Tagiyev . One of them, Johann (Ivan Aleksandrovich) Madervaks, worked together with his father Richard Sorge, industrial engineer Gustav Wilhelm Sorge ; later he went to work in the Caspian shipping company, and in 1938 he was repressed and executed ^[1] .

She studied at the 20th Baku school, and later graduated with a degree in electrical engineer from the Azerbaijan Oil and Chemistry Institute named after M. Azizbekova (who had previously completed her grandmother and both parents). She worked on distribution at the AzerElectroTerm NGO.

In 1990, with her second husband and son, she repatriated to Israel. She experienced many professions, from the kibbutznitsa and the mistress of the grocery store to the teaching of Hebrew and work in the Ministry of Absorption of Israel . Currently lives in Ashkelon and is engaged in teaching civil servants in Israel as a major profession in the college of computer disciplines. In addition, Keren is busy writing educational literature and publishing.

She was a delegate to the congress of the Azerbaijan-Israel Friendship Society.

Since 2008, he has been leading the column “Culinary Commentary” on the resource and in the publication “ Buknik.ru ”. Under the pseudonym Kirul Askalonskaya blogs on LJ.

He has two sons and two granddaughters.

In the author’s own words, she made her first attempts at writing since she was eight.

The first published book by Keren Pevzner was a two-volume self-study book “Parallel Ulpan ”, written two years from the filing of student Daniel Kluger, who studied at Keren’s courses, and published in 1997 by Mira publishing house. The self-instruction manual successfully occupied the niche of self-taught language written in an accessible language for Russian-speaking repatriates (and later for independent language learning in the diaspora, in particular in Russia and Canada) and has survived since then at least 6 reprints.

The writer’s first work of art was the detective story Confessions of a Killer, written and published in 1999 in the journal Seeker.

Artwork

Detectives

A series of detectives about Valery Vishnevskaya . It was published in the magazines " Seeker " and "The World" Seeker "")

• the novel "Confessions of a Killer" - "The Seeker" No. 3 for 1999 ^[2] .
• the story “Real Estate Tax” - “The World of the“ Seeker ”” No. 6 for 1999.
• the story “Pure Jewish Murder” - “The Seeker” No. 10 for 1999 ^[3] .
• the story “The Pilgrim's Death” - “The Seeker” No. 1 for 2000 ^[4] .
• the story “Death of the Saxophonist” - “The World of the Seeker” No. 4 for 2000 ^[5] .
• the novel “Her Last Cruise” - “The World of the“ Seeker ”” No. 10 for 2001.
• the story "The Lamp of the Pharaoh" - "The Seeker" No. 2 for 2004.
• the story "In Search of the Golem" (2004).

A series of novels in the style of a retro detective story about Apollinaria Avilova

• "The first case of Apollinaria Avilova" - ed. "Prosody" (2002, 50 thousand exz ^[6] ). Later reprinted ed. “Book Club 36.6” in the series “Detective by the Pen of a Woman” (2005, 5 thousand copies ^[7] , ISBN 5986970152 ).
• “The Case of the Missing Mascot” - ed. "Prosodia" (2003, 50 thousand copies, ISBN 5835800096 ). Reprinted by “Club 36.6” (2006, 5 thousand copies ^[8] ).
• “The Case of the Old Portrait” - ed. Book Club 36.6 (2006, 5 thousand copies ^[9] , ISBN 5986970284 ).
• “The Case of the Rubies of Queen of Sheba” - published together with the novel by Boris Vorobyov “The Crown of Tsar Saitafarn” in the series “World Classics” (“The World of the Seeker”) published by the “Seeker” (2006, 2700 copies, ISBN 5894870135 ). Later published “Ivrus” ( Tel Aviv , 2008).

Fantasy

• "City of the Winds" - ed. The Worlds ( Jerusalem , 2000).

Collections of journalistic essays

• "Memo to the beginning lover ... and all sorts of things"
• “Keren tells ... (studies about life, love and distant lands)”

Special Literature

(all books are published by default by SeferIsrael , Tel Aviv)

Textbooks on Hebrew and Israeli paperwork, phrasebooks, dictionaries of special vocabulary (Russian↔ Hebrew)

• Self-taught textbook “Parallel Ulpan ”, ISBN 9657197090 - first published in 1997, published in 7 editions, supplemented with the 2nd edition of the textbook edited by prof. Baruch Podolsky . The total circulation of at least 22 thousand copies.
• Phrasebook "Let me ask" - ed. Worlds (1998), reprinted by SeferIsrael in 2003 ( ISBN 9657197112 ) and 2009.
• Phrasebook “Mini Sikhon” ( ISBN 9789657197127 , 2004)
• Phrasebook “Super Sikhon” ( ISBN 965-7197-00-7 , edited by A. Solomonik , by the year 6 published 6 editions)
• "Dictionary of an electrician" (2010)
• “Programmer's Dictionary” (2010)
• "The modern dictionary of the accountant"
• "Musical Dictionary"
• “Meet - FORM (practical advice)” ( ISBN 9657197074 ; 2 editions of 2002 and 2010)
• “Meet - BANK (practical advice)” (2 editions)
• “Microsoft WORD in Hebrew and Russian” (2012)

Popular Encyclopedias

• Jewish Names (2002, ISBN 9657197066 )
• “Israeli Fish Dishes” (2007, ISBN 9657197414 )
• Encyclopedia of Medicinal Plants "Useful Herbs and Spices of Israel" (7 editions, ISBN 9657197228 )
• Israeli Salads (3 editions, ISBN 9657197376 )
• Israeli Juices (2009, ISBN 9657197457 )
• “How to eat in Israel?” (2010, ISBN 9657197481 ) - a collection of essays first published on the Bukhnik project

• Official site

Book Reviews

• Shlomo Groman, “Jewish Names” - a new book by Keren Pevzner . Review of the 1st edition of the Jewish Names encyclopedia in the Vesti newspaper, March 31, 2002.
• Shlomo Groman, “Escort the mind, meet ... by letter.” Review of the book “Meet the Form” by Keren Pevzner in the newspaper “News of the Week”, October 17, 2002.
• Review of the book "The First Case of Apollinaria Avilova" on the website of the newspaper " Book Review ".
• Ekaterina Panteleeva, "About the Old - Fashionable . " General review of the books by K. Vrublevskaya “The First Case of Apollinaria Avilova” and “The Case of the Missing Talisman”, the newspaper “ Book Review ”, 2006, No. 4.
• Ezra Belkin, Review of the Parallel Ulpan textbook (inaccessible link) , August 12, 2010.

Interview

• Pavel Basinsky, “Feminine Prose” (inaccessible link) . Interview with Katerina Vrublevskaya in Rossiyskaya Gazeta-Nedelya , February 10, 2006. A copy of the interview on the website of the Book Club 36.6 publishing house.
• Anna Ulanova, “Akunin in a skirt. Why Katerina Vrublevskaya was drawn to retro . " Interview with a writer in the newspaper Vechernyaya Moskva , February 15, 2006. A copy of the interview on the website of the Book Club 36.6 publishing house.
• Seymour Alioglu, “Bakıda gülən adama axmaq kimi baxırlar” (link not available) . (Azerb.) Interview with Keren Pevzner in the newspaper "Our Way" . A copy of the interview (inaccessible link) on the website of the portal of Azerbaijani culture Kult.Az.