Maisie Mosco

December 7, 1924 (age 86)

Oldham, north of Manchester, England

Her parents were of Latvian Jewish and Viennese Jewish descent, and both sides emigrated to England around 1900. A clever girl, she wanted to study medicine, but because of her mother"s illness, she, as the eldest child, had to leave school at the age of 14 to help in the family business. At the age of 18 she joined the ATS and at the end of World World War II was helping to teach illiterate soldiers how to read. After the war, she edited a Manchester Jewish weekly newspaper, the Jewish Gazette, subsequently writing radio plays for the British Broadcasting Corporation. One of her stage plays, Happy Family, became the basis of a horror film Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny and Girly. She also wrote 16 novels between 1979 and 1998. These include the "Almonds and Raisins" series (Almonds & Raisins, Scattered Seed, Children"s Children, Out of the Ashes, and New Beginnings), about a Jewish family who around 1900 fled anti-Jewish pogroms in the Russian Empire and emigrated to north Manchester in England. These books contained elements of her own family history. She died in London on 31 October 2011, aged 86.

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She was born as Maisie Gottlieb in Oldham, north of Manchester, England on 7 December 1924, the eldest of three children.

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Her parents were of Latvian Jewish and Viennese Jewish descent, and both sides emigrated to England around 1900. A clever girl, she wanted to study medicine, but because of her mother"s illness, she, as the eldest child, had to leave school at the age of 14 to help in the family business. At the age of 18 she joined the ATS and at the end of World World War II was helping to teach illiterate soldiers how to read.

After the war, she edited a Manchester Jewish weekly newspaper, the Jewish Gazette, subsequently writing radio plays for the British Broadcasting Corporation. One of her stage plays, Happy Family, became the basis of a horror film Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny and Girly.

She also wrote 16 novels between 1979 and 1998. These include the "Almonds and Raisins" series (Almonds & Raisins, Scattered Seed, Children"s Children, Out of the Ashes, and New Beginnings), about a Jewish family who around 1900 fled anti-Jewish pogroms in the Russian Empire and emigrated to north Manchester in England.

These books contained elements of her own family history. She died in London on 31 October 2011, aged 86.

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