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Pre-Shabbat Jewish Lit Links

by Erika Dreifus on February 6, 2015

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Every Friday My Machberet presents an array of Jewish-interest links, primarily of the literary variety.

Mitch Ginsburg profiles Dalia Betolin-Sherman on the occasion of the publication of the Ethiopian-born Israeli writer’s first story in English.

Mazal tov to the winner and honorable mentions for this year’s ALA/Sophie Brody Medal for outstanding achievement in Jewish literature.

On the Fig Tree Books website: a fresh appraisal of Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Shosha.

Some of the most moving moments of this past week for me: watching “Defiant Requiem,” a documentary “which illuminates the extraordinary, untold story of the brave acts of resistance by the Jewish prisoners at Terezín.” Let’s just say that although I’ve always loved Verdi’s Requiem, I’ll never listen to it in quite the same way again.

“The Jewish Student Press Service is looking to hire a recent or soon-to-be college graduate for the full-time position of editor-in-chief of the national Jewish student magazine New Voices. The new editor would simultaneously serve as executive director of the Jewish Student Press Service.”

Shabbat shalom.

Pre-Shabbat Jewish Lit Links

by Erika Dreifus on January 2, 2015

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Every Friday My Machberet presents an array of Jewish-interest links, primarily of the literary variety.

“A smarter dream would be to get a quality Jewish paper in the hands of every Jew in America. At the very least, that would keep Judaism in the game for the multitudes that now ignore it.” So argues David Suissa as he explains “Why Judaism Needs Journalism.”

And several Jewish journalists and writers are among Batya Ungar-Sargon’s “10 Women’s Voices We Want To Hear More From.”

The Jewish Week‘s Gary Rosenblatt does a superb job presenting the significance of Yossi Klein Halevi’s Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist: The Story of a Transformation, one of the most memorable books I read in 2014.

ICYMI: Remember the Scholastic map flap last year? This time, HarperCollins is in the hot seat.

Just under 2 weeks left to enter poetry for this year’s Anna Davidson Rosenberg Awards for Poems on Jewish Experience. No entry fee indicated.

Shabbat shalom.

Pre-Shabbat Jewish Literary Links

by Erika Dreifus on December 5, 2014

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Every Friday My Machberet presents an array of Jewish-interest links, primarily of the literary variety.

Upon the passing of Coffee House Press founder Allan Kornblum, Allan Appel reflects on Kornblum “and the Jewish Question.”

Another worthy essay from Nina Badzin, this time on “an unexpected improvement” to her marriage.

I’ve just finished reading Assaf Gavron’s The Hilltop (trans. Steven Cohen). Dan Friedman’s review sums up the novel nicely.

And I’ve just purchased this book, which, as you’ll see will be the focus of a forthcoming event at Hebrew Union College in NYC.

Tablet magazine is hiring two paid, part-time editorial interns.

Shabbat shalom.

Pre-Shabbat Jewish Literary Links

by Erika Dreifus on October 24, 2014

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Every Friday morning My Machberet presents an assortment of Jewish-interest links, primarily of the literary variety.

New find! An English-language podcast on Israeli literature in translation.

Awaiting my attention: the latest issue of Lilith magazine.

“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.

Shabbat shalom.

Pre-Shabbat Jewish Literary Links

by Erika Dreifus on July 25, 2014

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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: two posts featuring “Words of the Week” and fiction suggestions for the current moment from D.G. Myers (and others).

So much content worth your time in the new issue of Lilith, including “Lot’s Wife,” a retelling of the biblical story, by Michal Lemberger; a stunning account of terror in Jerusalem, by Natasha Basin Levina (translated by Sonia Melnikova-Raich); and superb reviews of two books that I, too, have found remarkable: Marina Blitshteyn on Orly Castel-Bloom’s Textile (trans. Dalya Bilu) and Liana Finck on Roz Chast’s Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?.

An extraordinary essay by Claire Hajaj, daughter of a Jewish mother and a Palestinian father. (h/t @alexnazaryan)

Shabbat shalom.