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.
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Images of the Week
I’ve just returned from a trip to Israel. Among the lasting impressions from this trip are mental imprints from a “War Diary” video installation that I sat through multiple times over the course of two visits to ANU/Museum of the Jewish People. The video includes 300 news photos shot in the Gaza Envelope region after the October 7 massacre and during the ensuing war. (Suffice to say that these are a genre of photos you’ve not seen featured regularly on the front pages of The New York Times or The Washington Post.)
Twenty-first-century technology makes it possible for me to share these images with you. Your encounter will be different for multiple reasons—not least because viewing on your phone or laptop cannot possibly be the same as seeing the images projected on a dedicated wall at the museum, as part of an exhibition titled “October Seventh.”
One other difference, though, you can try to bridge.
(more…)Words of the Week: Subcommittee on Antisemitism and Anti-Israeli Bias of the Jewish Advisory Committee at Stanford University
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.
- “Despite strained ties with Israel, annual Moroccan Book Festival features exhibition on Jewish literature, culture.” Reported by Efrat Lachter for eJewish Philanthropy.
- I want to see Bad Shabbos! Review by Danielle Solzman.
- In which Ruth Franklin explains “how a trip to Israel inspired [her] to commit to dialogue”—even as some authors she’s amplifying may refuse to do the same.
- Icymi: Nobel literature laureate Herta Müller recently gave an extraordinary speech.
- And yours truly has two new bylines to share—one with Hadassah magazine (delving in still more detail into literary antisemitism) and the other, a piece of flash creative nonfiction, with Paper Dragon. More info on both over on Practicing Writing.
Also updated this week: both “After October 7: Readings, Recordings, and More” and “Writers, Beware.”
Shabbat shalom.
Words of the Week: Herta Müller
“In the novel ‘Doctor Faustus’ by Thomas Mann it is said that National Socialism ‘made everything German in the world intolerable.’ I have the impression that the strategy of Hamas and its supporters is to make everything Israeli, and therefore everything Jewish, intolerable to the world.”
Source: Nobel literature laureate Herta Müller, “I Cannot Imagine the World Without Israel” (delivered May 25).