“Isn’t it a little weird? There are nine or ten resolutions against Israel. And I know there’s a problem with the Palestinians. But there’s other bad shit going on and they’re spending so much time on this.”
–Unnamed U.N. interpreter, quoted by The Times of Israel
But I’m far from the only one to have written about Kristallnacht in some way. This week also brought plenty of reminders of that fact.
How about you? Are there any literary works you’d recommend that address Kristallnacht?
An announcement from the Yiddish Book Center:
Great Jewish Books Summer Program
A week-long exploration of literature & culture for high school students
at the Yiddish Book Center, Amherst, MA
August 3-10, 2014
The Great Jewish Books Summer Program brings together a select group of rising high school juniors and seniors to read, discuss, argue about, and fall in love with some of the most powerful and enduring works of modern Jewish literature. Participants study with respected literary scholars, meet prominent contemporary authors, and connect with other teens from across the country. One of last year’s participants writes: “I had an amazing time every single day and would go to bed feeling excited for the next day.” And a parent adds: “Our daughter’s experience was off-the-charts wonderful!” So tell the young person you know and love to apply now for summer 2014! (And note: Every admitted participant receives a scholarship for the full cost of tuition, room, board, books, and special events.)
Applications are due March 15, 2014. For more information go to http://www.yiddishbookcenter.
Monday brings the weekly batch of no-fee competitions/contests, paying submission calls, and jobs for those of us who write (especially those of us who write fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction). (more…)
Another Sunday in which I participate in David Abrams’s “Sunday Sentence” project, which asks others to share the best sentence(s) we’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”
“As Proust knew, all love depends not just on current infatuation but on retrospective jealousy; lacking a classy old lover, a Marquis de Norpois, to be jealous of, I was jealous of the men in Montreal health-food stories who had sold her millet and lecithin granules.”
Source: Adam Gopnik, “Bread and Women,” in The New Yorker (subscription required)
