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Jewish Literary Links for Shabbat

by on Friday, April 19, 2013 (0) Comments

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Every Friday morning My Machberet presents an assortment of links, primarily of the literary variety.

  • Can you describe your Jewish mom in six words? The Forward would like you to try.
  • “This is a complicated story, but here goes.” So begins Joan Acocella’s (The New Yorker) tale of book-reviewing, Primo Levi, and Israel.
  • This month’s Jewish Book Carnival is hosted by the Jewish Book Council, and there are some real goodies included.
  • A fascinating glimpse into Albert Einstein’s last speech.
  • Finally, I wish I could attend the “Holocaust Lives” panel at this weekend’s Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. Panelists include Jonathan Kirsch, Jewish Journal Books Editor and author of a book I’m especially eager to read: The Short, Strange Life of Herschel Grynszpan. (See Michael Berenbaum’s review.)

    • Shabbat shalom.

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    Jewish Literary Links for Shabbat

    by on Friday, March 22, 2013 (0) Comments

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    Every Friday morning My Machberet presents an assortment of links, primarily of the literary variety.

  • Tempting conference coming up at Princeton University on Sunday, April 7: “American Jewish Culture: ‘Fresh Vitality in Every Direction.’” Including literary directions.
  • If you aspire to write Jewish-themed children’s books, you may want to look into this workshop, scheduled for June at the Highlights Foundation in Honesdale, Penn.
  • The Ilanot Review seeks “hybrid literary texts” for its next issue. Deadline: April 30.
  • New to me this week: TheTower.org, which “features reporting and analysis of geopolitical, security, economic, social and other events and trends affecting the Middle East and America’s interests in the region.” (h/t @dg_myers)
  • Thanks to David Remnick, you may feel as though you, too, were able to attend Philip Roth’s 80th birthday party.

    • Shabbat shalom.

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    Jewish Literary Links for Shabbat

    by on Friday, February 15, 2013 (0) Comments

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    Every Friday morning My Machberet presents an assortment of Jewish news, primarily of the literary variety, from around the Web.

  • Tablet has published a troubling, but exceedingly well-written, excerpt from Tova Reich’s next novel as its latest fiction feature.
  • I’d been meaning to get a copy of David Ebenbach’s The Artist’s Torah; this piece in New Jersey Jewish News, which I ran across this week, made me go ahead and order it (finally!).
  • The Daniel Pearl Journalism Initiative, coordinated by Moment magazine, is open for applications.
  • This week brought the Jerusalem International Book Fair.
  • Get to know the authors and illustrators behind the books that have received recognition from this year’s Sydney Taylor Book Awards.

    • Shabbat shalom!

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    Looking at Holocaust Literature Anew

    by on Wednesday, February 13, 2013 (0) Comments

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    Two weeks ago, I attended a panel event, held at the Center for Jewish History here in Manhattan, that helped launch a new book, Holocaust Literature: A History and Guide. And last Friday, my account of that event was posted on the “Well Versed” blog of The Jewish Week, a New York-based newspaper that I subscribe to.

    “Looking at Holocaust Literature Anew” is my debut post for Well Versed, and I hope it signals many to come–and perhaps even some bylines within the paper itself. We shall see.

    Meantime, here’s the opening of the post:

    Definitions can be tricky. Just try to find agreement on what qualifies (or not) as “Jewish literature.”
    Perhaps equally arguable: any effort to define “Holocaust literature.”

    In their new book, “Holocaust Literature: A History and Guide” (Brandeis University Press), David Roskies and Naomi Diamant propose some striking new terms.

    Intrigued? Please keep reading!

    (cross-posted on Practicing Writing)

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    Jewish Literary Links for Shabbat

    by on Friday, January 18, 2013 (0) Comments

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    Every Friday morning My Machberet presents an assortment of Jewish news, primarily of the literary variety, from around the Web.

  • It’s always an occasion when a new issue of The Ilanot Review becomes available. The Winter 2013 issue is now online. Its theme: “Foreign Bodies.”
  • Another accolade for Francesca Segal’s The Innocents: the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction. (Read the awards press release and my earlier impressions of the book.)
  • The January 2013 Jewish Book Carnival went live this week, hosted by People of the Books.
  • Novelist Ilan Mochari has some advice for Philip Roth’s biographer. In related news, registration for the upcoming Roth@80 conference is now open.
  • Finally: This is a special week for my story collection, Quiet Americans. Read all about it.

    • Shabbat shalom!

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