Photo Credit: Reut Miryam Cohen Every Friday morning My Machberet presents an assortment of Jewish news, primarily of the literary variety, from around the Web.
Yiddish Book Center Fellow Jordan Kutzik reports on a recent UNESCO symposium , “The Permanence of Yiddish,” in Paris.
Over on Jewish Ideas Daily , D.G. Myers reviews the year just past in Jewish books.
Clever review of Oy! Only Six? Why Not More? Six-Word Memoirs on Jewish Life (I’m a proud contributor).Something unexpected happened when Vanessa Hidary (“the Hebrew Mamita”) asked a pop-up bookstore at Limmud to stock her memoir.Last, but not least: first issue of Gandy Dancer , a new literary journal based at SUNY-Geneseo, features an interview with me about Quiet Americans .
Shabbat shalom.
