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Notes from Around the Web: Literary Links for Shabbat

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  • Having recently read Hans Keilson’s Comedy in a Minor Key (trans. Damion Searls), I appreciated this profile of the almost-101-year-old author
  • As we conclude National Poetry Month, let’s take a moment to celebrate that remarkable poet from the past, Hannah Senesh. as well as a newer, current poetic voice: that of Yehoshua November.
  • Poet and editor Jill Bialosky is now also the author of a memoir, about her sister’s 1990 suicide, and in this interview she discusses Jewish mourning rituals–and Judaism’s complicated relationship with suicide.
  • Yom Hashoah begins at sundown on Sunday, May 1, and that makes me it seem especially important to share with you today my latest essay-review for Fiction Writers Review: “Looking Backward: Third-Generation Fiction Writers and the Holocaust.”
  • On my other blog, this week’s “post-publication post” provides some background on the real-life inspiration for one of the characters readers are meeting in my short-story collection, Quiet Americans.

    • Shabbat shalom.

    Digital Storytelling: “A Wrinkle In Time,” by Paul Zakrzewski

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    Paul Zakrzewski has many literary talents, and to his collection of authorial skills he has recently added digital storytelling. An early result: this short video essay, “A Wrinkle in Time.”

    As Paul explains:

    This short video essay covers a trip to Poland I took with my wife and 13-month-old son. That was in July 2008.

    We spent a week with Genia Olczak, who was my dad’s nanny before WWII and hid him and several other Jewish family members during the Holocaust.

    The film was made in a workshop sponsored by the Center for Digital Storytelling in April 2011.

    Genia passed away in September 2008, a month after our trip. She was 95.

    Notes from Around the Web: Literary Links for Shabbat

    by Erika Dreifus on
    Disabled
  • Very proud to share with you my latest poetry publication, a poem titled “Emor,” on the New Vilna Review site.
  • Speaking of poetry, The Forward‘s Arty Semite blog continues its celebration of National Poetry month here.
  • Mazel tov to the winners of this year’s Canadian Jewish Book Awards.
  • Among those appearing in the PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature (April 25-May 1, 2011, in New York) are Israeli authors Agi Mishol, Yael Hedaya, Asaf Schurr, and Evan Fallenberg.
  • Every time I see the call for applications for Write On for Israel I wish I were in high school again (almost).
  • Yes, you have yet another opportunity to win a free copy of my story collection, Quiet Americans!
  • Something I’ll be working on this weekend: my presentation for an upcoming (May 5) conference here in NYC on “German-Speaking Jews in New York City: Their Immigration and Lasting Presence.”

    • Shabbat shalom!

    Notes from Around the Web: Jewish Literary Links for Shabbat

    by Erika Dreifus on
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  • Adam Langer likes David Bezmozgis’s new novel. A lot.
  • This New York Times article describes eating disorders among the Orthodox–and spotlights memoirist Naomi Feigenbaum.
  • A highlight of this week: chatting with my Jewish Book Council hosts and all the participants who stopped by the Twitter Book Club discussion of my story collection, Quiet Americans.
  • Another highlight: attending a preview performance of the new musical, The People in the Picture.
  • Finally, for the Sabbath, enjoy Marge Piercy’s poem, “Wellfleet Shabbat.”

    • Shabbat shalom, and chag Pesach!