Erika Dreifus

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.

• Published this week (and atop my tbr stack): To Life: A Cartoonist’s Journal in the Aftermath of October 7 by Joann Sfar (trans. Montana Kane). Find out more in the Forward.
• “More than 5,000 leaders and public figures from entertainment, academia, literature, government, business, religion and civic life have joined an open letter rejecting the accusation that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza and warning that the charge has become a dangerous vehicle for scapegoating Jews and fueling antisemitism around the world.”
• The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies “is soliciting nominations for books to consider for translation and publication in the Holocaust Studies in Translation series, an interdisciplinary program that showcases cutting-edge scholarship from Eastern Europe and makes it accessible to an English-speaking audience. The books will be published open access by Cornell University Press. We are interested in recent scholarly monographs by active scholars published in a range of Eastern European languages. Use this form to submit a nomination to the Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies. Nominations must be submitted by someone other than the author.” Deadline: October 30. 
• “NUREMBERG, 1945. The eyes of a world desperate for truth, hope and justice turn to a courtroom where the leaders of the defeated Nazi regime sit in the dock. In this revelatory history, Natalie Livingstone sheds new light on the trial of the century, through the stories of extraordinary women whose importance has long been ignored.” The UK-based Jewish Literary Foundation has selected Livingtone’s The Nuremberg Women as its September “Book of the Month” (the book will be out later this fall here in the US, as you may have caught here).
• And a fall-issue preview from Jewish Review of Books: Shaul Kelner’s review of Dara Horn’s The Final Solution to the Jewish Question: A Love Story for the Living.

Wishing you all a happy, healthy, peaceful start to the year 5787.