Gordon Blitz
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Gordon Blitz

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Gordon Blitz's most recent novel is Converso Jews: A Hidden Family Story. The historical fiction novel offers a dual storyline following Jews who practiced their faith in secret during the period of the Inquisition and the current love story of Isaac and Pablo, a Sephardic Jew and a Catholic who meet at a gay Jewish synagogue. We ultimately encounter people of faith who are attempting to uncover their converso heritage trying to explain why their families have continued to practice certain traditions for the last five hundred years without understanding why. And if that was not enough, we follow Pablo who goes through the coming out process after his parents want to disown him and, with Isaac’s blessing, decides to convert to Judaism. For those of you who liked The Last Jew by Noah Gordon or The Silver Candlesticks by Linda Chávez, you will enjoy Converso Jews: A Hidden Family Story. As a young child, Gordon Blitz was called a sissy, girlie, fag, queer, and homo. Getting towel whipped, stomach punched and spit on were part of his daily world. Then after forty years as an accountant, he retired in 2017 and became a passionate writing machine. As a senior LGBTQ+ man, he has a unique perspective on the many facets of being LGBTQ+ for the last fifty years. He is a diverse multi-media creative artist, novelist, playwright and performer. In 2023, Reflections of A Gay Jewish Boy had a performance at the Region 8 Kennedy Center American Theater College Festival in Las Vegas, Nevada and became a finalist for the National Festival in Washington D.C. A Homeless Thanksgiving had a reading on February 9, 2025 as part of the Talking It Out Festival at the Spit&Vigor Blackbox Theatre, NYC. His short play The Aftermath was published in the June 2025 issue of Mini Plays Review. Additionally, his play, Climate Change, was selected for the Climate Action New Play Collective at DePaul University. His play, Reflections of A Teenage Jewish Lesbian, had a reading in September, 2025 as part of the Tiger’s Heart Festival. His monologue, Caged, won the Go Write a Play competition given by the Kumu Kahua Theatre in Honolulu, Hawaii in conjunction with Bamboo Ridge Books. The Spokane Falls Community College Spartan Theater included his play, Scared Ethel, in their Fall, 2025 New Works Reader’s Theatre Festival. He is also a novelist. In 2021 his novella Shipped Off was published by Running Wild Press in Novella Anthology Volume 4, Book 1. Since 2021, he has published, Stretched Love, Murder Times Three: A Waverly Place Mystery and Transformation and Acceptance, and It's No Laughing Matter.
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