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Notes from Around the Web

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  • Howard Jacobson’s latest novel, The Finkler Question, was already on my tbr list. Adam Kirsch’s review only solidified my interest.
  • On a lighter note, if you’re starting to look for Chanukah gifts for the little ones, you may want to check out this list of new titles.
  • I am so excited for the next Jewish Book Council Twitter Book Club! The chosen book is Julie Orringer’s The Invisible Bridge; the author will participate; and the event will take place online on Tuesday, October 26.
  • Mazel Tov to author Max Apple on winning a Pew Fellowship (you may recall my appreciation for his collection, The Jew of Home Depot and Other Stories).
  • More about David Grossman and his newly translated novel, this time from The Jewish Week.
  • Now up on The Jewish Reader: Philip Roth’s Nemesis.

    • This will be my final post for ten days or so. I’m heading to Israel tomorrow night! I don’t expect to be online much (if at all) while I’m there, but I do anticipate returning with lots of discoveries to share. Shabbat shalom, and see you when I’m back!

    Notes from Around the Web

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    Lots of Jewish literary news to share with you before Shabbat, my friends!

    • Israeli author Assaf Gavron is among the latest artists to be named a Schusterman Visiting Artist. Gavron will be in residence at Chapman University (Calif.) next spring.
    • In case you missed the news, David Grossman’s latest novel (translated by Jessica Cohen) is now out in the U.S. (And in the days since I wrote the post I’ve just linked to, which includes a mention of George Packer’s New Yorker profile of Grossman, Packer participated in a Q&A with readers archived here.)
    • I loved Josh Lambert’s pre-Yom Kippur “contrition edition” book column for Tablet.
    • Coming soon from the Feminist Press: Israeli writer Michal Govrin’s Hold on to the Sun. (I can’t tell if there’s a translator involved here, although an editor is referenced.)
    • Just a little more than a week away: the Jewish Book Council-sponsored Jewish Authors’ Conference. (I’ll be moderating a panel of pretty impressive authors: Gal Beckerman, Jennifer Gilmore, and Joanna Smith Rakoff.)
    • And last, but not necessarily least: a little bit about l’dor v’dor and its presence in my own poetry and prose.

      • Shabbat shalom!

    Jewish Literary Festival Writing Contest Announced

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    From the DC JCC, home to the Hyman S. & Freyda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival (October 17-27, 2010):

    Community Prize for Writing on a Festival Theme
    Strangers in a Strange Land: The Lives of Jewish Immigrants

    We surround ourselves with communities that sustain and enrich our lives. When we leave those communities—by choice, by force, or both—our lives are upended. What do we choose to take with us to the new environment, and what do we leave behind? This year’s Opening Night explores these questions of immigration and home.

    Jews have often found themselves strangers in strange lands, but new environments are not always the result of physical displacement. Tell us a true story—from your life or a family member’s—of finding oneself alone in a new place or situation.

    Submissions are open to all and will be judged blindly. Work will be considered in two categories: 1) 18 years and under, and 2) over 18. Please include your contact information and age category on the first page only. Send submissions of 500 words or fewer to litfest(at)washingtondcjcc(dot)org by September 27, 2010.

    A selection committee will choose three entries in each category to honor during the Festival and online. These winning entries will be published on the 16th Street J’s website and The Blog at 16th & Q. The first place selection in each category will win the Community Prize for Writing and a $100 Visa gift card.

    Note: No previously-published work, please.

    High Holiday Poetry Contest 2010

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    MyJewishLearning is running a High Holiday Poetry Contest–and you’re invited to participate.

    Submitted poems “can be funny, or serious, or both. They can rhyme. They can be long (though we are from the Internet short-attention-span-generation). We want to be entertained, and we want to be inspired.”

    Submit by August 25. Winning entries will be published online in time for Rosh Hashanah.

    There will be prizes!

    For more info, check MyJewishLearning.

    (via the Jewish Book Council)

    Hadassah-Brandeis Institute Research Awards

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    “The Hadassah-Brandeis Institute awards grants to support interdisciplinary research or artistic projects on Jewish women and gender issues. Scholars, activists, writers and artists who are pursuing research on questions of significance to the field of Jewish women’s studies may apply.”

    Grant categories include: film and video, biography, history, social science, the arts (performance arts, visual arts, and creative writing), Judaism, and the Yishuv and Israel.

    Junior grants (up to $2000) are awarded to graduate students enrolled in recognized Ph.D. programs and new scholars; senior grants (up to $5000) are awarded to established scholars and professionals.

    Proposal deadline is September 15, 2010.

    For more information, please click here.