From Mosaic magazine: the inimitable Ruth Wisse writes about Nora Gold’s Fields of Exile: “I am grateful for a work of fiction that honestly animates what is all too actual and true.”
New award for fiction on Jewish themes: the Amy Levy Prize.
On the Well Versed blog: the latest about Granta Israel.
I’ll admit that I have resisted reading all the terrible details of the sickening Rabbi Freundel story. But I’m glad that I read Matthue Roth’s essay-post on the subject for Hevria.
“In honoring [Patrick] Modiano, the Nobel jury has embraced a tortuously and very specifically French-Jewish itinerary of belonging.” (Clémence Boulouque for Tablet)
“An outsider reading this extensively researched review of the way women are treated in the modern Jewish State might think that the author was describing Alabama of the 1950s.” (Ellis Shuman in a review of Elana Maryles Sztokman’s The War on Women in Israel.)
Guess who’s hosting the next Jewish Book Carnival? Fig Tree Books! Want to join in? Read this.
Photo Credit: Reut Miryam Cohen Every Friday morning My Machberet presents an assortment of Jewish-interest links, primarily of the literary variety.
One of many sad consequences of current events: Israeli Arab writer Sayed Kashua is emigrating. I wish him all the best, and I will renew my efforts to read his books.
More TBR ideas in the “Summer Bookfest” issue of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute’s 614.
ICYMI here on My Machberet: twoposts featuring “Words of the Week” and fiction suggestions for the current moment from D.G. Myers (and others).
