Naomi ragen plagiarism biography

Ragen has been the subject of various lawsuits over claims of plagiarism.
Writer Ragen vindicated in plagiarism court dealby Maya SelaA compromise agreement that represented an almost total victory for best-selling.
Naomi Ragen to appeal plagiarism ruling The American-born novelist, Naomi Ragen, has appealed against a ruling finding her guilty of plagiarising the work of.

•

Court rules Naomi Ragen plagiarized in best-seller

American-Israeli author says she’s victim of campaign aimed at silencing her criticism of ulra-Orthodox community.

By BEN HARTMAN

A best-selling American-Israeli author said Monday there is a campaign being waged to silence her, a day after she was found guilty by a Jerusalem Court of plagiarism.Naomi Ragen, a New York native and a Jerusalem Post columnist accused the plaintiff, author Sarah Shapiro of “working out of a desire to silence my criticism of the Haredi community’s treatment of women, which I have done for years.”“This is a sad day for Israeli society and Israeli authors in particular, who will have to deal with the language of abrasive lawsuits from people looking to suppress freedom of expression and creativity in Israel.”She said she and her lawyer are still reading over the verdict and will decide whether to appeal when they are finished.Ragen said the NIS 1 million lawsuit “deals with similarities in a few small pieces of sentences that are in my book and that of the plaintiff. In regards to the verdi

•

Real Writers Defend One of Their Own Against Frivolous Charge of Plagiarism

The New York Times reports that, in one of many letters published in the Telegraph in support of Ian McEwan, Thomas Keneally, the author “Schindler’s List,” wrote “Fiction depends on a certain value-added quality created on top of the raw material, and that McEwan has added value beyond the original will, I believe, be richly demonstrated.” If not, Mr. Keneally added, “God help us all.”

Thomas Pynchon said that “that McEwan ‘merits not our scolding but our gratitude’ for using details from another author’s book.”

The Telegraph reports that in an extraordinary campaign launched yesterday, many of the world’s best known authors rallied around McEwan, complaining that the future of historical novel-writing was threatened if they could not copy or borrow details from eyewitnesses to history. Other novelists backing the author include John Updike, Martin Amis, Margaret Atwood, Thomas Keneally and Zadie Smith. Their confessions are part of an extraordina

•

Naomi Ragen Wins A Second Plagiarism Suit in the Supreme Court

Yesterday I went to the Supreme Court of Israel with the hope that finally justice would be done and District Court Judge Yosef Shapira’s insulting, ugly, and false judgment against me for copyright infringement (which he called “literary theft” – something which simply does notexist) would be overturned, as was his previous judgment against me in another case.

I had hardly entered the courtroom when Chief Justices Naor, Chayot and Hendel immediately suggested throwing out Judge Shapira’s judgment, calling it “problematic,” and requiring my accuser Sarah Shapiro to pay back all the money she’d received as compensation.

They called it a compromise.

This is, as I said, the second time the Supreme Court overturned a ruling against me by the same judge. Details of the first time are here and here and here.

All the Supreme Court asked of me was that if my book ever goes into a new edition, I voluntarily agree to edit out the 29 words and sentence fragments which wer