I won’t be in New York City this weekend, but if you are, you might want to look into Sunday’s BYFI Fall Forum, “Culture Shock: Jewish Writing in America.” Program details and ticket information available here.
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The State of Jewish Fiction: A Panel Discussion
I won’t be able to attend this event, but if you’re in New York City tomorrow evening and have the time and inclination you may want to stop by the Tenement Museum and sit in on a panel on “The State of Jewish Fiction.” From the Web site: “Jewish writers, including Joshua Henkin, Binnie Kirshenbaum, Ellen Feldman, and Tova Mirvis discuss faith and culture in literature today. The authors will debate the role graduate writing programs play in shaping contemporary literature.” The event is co-sponsored by JBooks and begins at 6:30 pm. Details here.
San Diego Zeekend: October 24-26
This just in from the folks at Zeek:
“Zeek, a journal of Jewish thought and culture, invites you to join us October 24-26 in San Diego as we explore personal, spiritual, and political borderlines during an exciting weekend on the theme, Border Crossings.Cross from the U.S. to Israel with the dance music of Israeli-American sub-dub performer Badawi, who mixes Middle-eastern melodies with New York hip-hop.
Cross from your secular life to new spiritual experience with Mexican Jewish community organizer Jessica Kreimerman Lew and Cantor Kathy Robbins.
Navigate cultural borderlines with poet David Antin, Israeli-Spanish translator Merav Rozenblum, artist Bara Sapir, and artist Eleanor Antin.
Consider the place of the stranger who has crossed the border during discussions with Sanctuary movement activists and leaders, moderated Rabbi Laurie Coskey.
Participate in a Judaism you’ve never experienced before, with an outdoor drumming circle Friday, an LGBTQ-oriented service Saturday morning, a dance party Saturday night and, on Sunday, a drive out to the border with Methodist minister John Fanestil.
You can’t miss this exciting weekend. Experience all three days or drop-in for just a while. But come!”
You’ll find the complete schedule here.
Woman of Letters and Other Goings-on at the Museum of Jewish Heritage
In the current (November) issue of The Writer magazine, I’ve contributed a short news item on Woman of Letters: Irène Némirovsky and Suite Française, an exhibition at New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage-A Living Memorial to the Holocaust. Woman of Letters runs into March 2009, but if you can’t get to the Museum to see it, you can still check it out online.
Plenty of events are being planned in conjunction with this exhibition, among them a discussion of “Jews in Vichy France” (featuring scholars Robert Paxton and Michael Marrus) and another session on “Irène Némirovsky and the Jewish Question,” with my own former professor, Susan Suleiman, and The New Republic‘s Ruth Franklin. Check out these sessions, and other events planned for this fall at the Museum, right here.
(I won’t be blogging on Yom Kippur. See you back here in a few days.)
Promised Land: Exodus and America, A Festival of Ideas
Planned for October 22-26, 2008, “Promised Land: Exodus and America” is a five-day festival of ideas in Boston organized by the New Center for Arts and Culture and Nextbook and presented in partnership with Northeastern University and the Museum of African American History. The festival “looks at how various Americans–from the Puritans to African American slaves to new immigrants–have adopted and adapted the Exodus story to meet their own material and imaginative needs.” Student discounts are available. To find out more, click here.
