Jewish Book Carnival: October 2018

The My Machberet blog is proud to serve as October 2018 host for the Jewish Book Carnival, a monthly event where those who cover Jewish books online “can meet, read, and comment on each others’ posts.” Organized by the Association of Jewish Libraries, the Carnival travels around and is hosted on a different participant’s site on the 15th of each month.

Herewith, the October 2018 Jewish Book Carnival: (more…)

Sunday Sentence

Gravestone in Jewish cemetery.

In which I participate in David Abrams’s “Sunday Sentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”

Me: word-beggar in the Jewish cemetery.

Source: Aaron Zeitlin (1898-1973), “Six Lines” (trans. Miranda Cooper), for The Online Treasury of Yiddish Poetry. (Click “AB” for the English.)