Jewish Literary Links
Toward the end of each week, the My Machberet blog presents a collection of links, drawn primarily from the world of Jewish books and writing.
- Two new journalism-focused essays that impressed me this week: Gary Rosenblatt’s “‘Read All About It!’ Two Centuries Of Jewish News At Your Fingertips!” and Avi Mayer’s “The Betrayal of Journalism in Gaza.”
- I haven’t dived in to my print copy of the Summer 2025 issue of Lilith magazine yet, but I’ve already caught the online version of “Women of the Bookshop,” in which Lauren Aliza Green profiles “six Jewish women from six bookshops in six zip codes.”
- Another literary-festival brouhaha unfolded in Australia last week. And here’s what one Australian Jewish writer had to say about it.
- If you didn’t catch Nora Gold’s novel Fields of Exile when it was published in 2015, The Montreal Review has just published an excerpt. Let’s just say that the author was…prescient…in writing about anti-Israelism on campus.
- And this past week has brought a couple of unexpected spotlights on some of my own previously published Jewish poetry and prose.
Shabbat shalom.
