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Jewish Literary Links for Shabbat

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Photo Credit: Reut Miryam Cohen
Every Friday morning My Machberet presents an assortment of Jewish-interest links, primarily of the literary variety.

  • As we marked what would have been Daniel Pearl’s 50th birthday this week, Heidi Kingstone reflected “on being a Jewish journalist in hostile lands.”
  • “Yeladim Books is interested in Jewish picture books, chapter books, and YA/Teen novels for a new digital collection to be launched this fall. It is interested in licensing existing titles, whether current or out of print, and also acquiring new books. If interested, please contact Ron Zevy at rz(at)tumblebooks(dot)com.” (via The Whole Megillah)
  • Eva L. Weiss’s post for The Jewish Week’s Well Versed blog makes me hope that an English translation of the first collection of short stories by Ethiopian-Israeli author Dalia Betolin-Sherman will be available soon.
  • Unfortunately, I have other plans already, but my fellow New Yorkers should take note of “The Remarkable Life and Afterlife of Sholem Aleichem,” a free panel discussion at YIVO that will take place next Thursday, October 17, and will feature a powerhouse intellectual trio: Jonathan Brent, Executive Director, YIVO; Jeremy Dauber, Columbia University; and Adam Kirsch, The New Republic (Moderator).
  • And, icymi, over on my other blog I’ve given a detailed account of my attendance last Saturday evening at an event spotlighting Israeli author Etgar Keret.

    • Shabbat shalom.

    Jewish Literary Links for Shabbat

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    Photo Credit: Reut Miryam Cohen
    Every Friday morning My Machberet presents an assortment of Jewish-interest links, primarily of the literary variety.

  • Up for a challenge? Try to absorb Tablet magazine’s list of “101 Great Jewish Books.”
  • Rebecca Klempner prepared a play for children to perform at her synagogue over Yom Kippur. On her blog, she shares some lessons learned.
  • You thought the Holy Days came “early”? Well, Chanukah will, too. The Jewish Book Council’s new children’s book reviews are helping me plan gift purchases.
  • I noticed several commentaries online after Anthony Bourdain’s “Parts Unknown” Israel episode aired on Sunday; I’ll recommend one from New Jersey Jewish News‘s Andrew Silow-Carroll.
  • New Yorkers still have two chances to meet Israeli graphic novelist Rutu Modan this weekend.

    • Shabbat shalom.

    Jewish Literary Links for Shabbat

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    Photo Credit: Reut Miryam Cohen
    Every Friday morning My Machberet presents an assortment of Jewish-interest links, primarily of the literary variety.

  • Big news: A translation of a new David Grossman novel is coming in March. Check out Library Journal‘s Barbara Hoffert’s “prepub alert” for the details.
  • On Moment‘s blog, Claudia Roth Pierpont answers questions about her forthcoming study of Philip Roth.
  • The 3rd Annual Jewish Playwriting Contest is taking submissions until November 21st.
  • The Yiddish Book Center has an intriguing weekend program coming up in November: “The Family Singer: Three Siblings and Their Stories.”
  • “The 2013-2014 track of the Schusterman Visiting Israeli Artists Program has officially kicked off, bringing 10 Israeli artists [including writers] for residencies at top universities across the United States.”
  • Just added to my tbr list: Molly Knight Raskin’s No Better Time: The Brief, Remarkable Life of Danny Lewin, the Genius Who Transformed the Internet. Liel Leibowitz’s Tablet piece is the reason why.
  • I’d already heard about MOST of the books included in Sandee Brawarsky’s big fall preview article for The Jewish Week. But not all of them.

    • Please be sure to come back here to My Machberet on Sunday, when the September Jewish Book Carnival will be posted. In the meantime, Shabbat Shalom. And a good fast!

    Jewish Book Carnival: Call for Submissions

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    jbcsmallIf you follow the My Machberet blog, you may recall that every month, the blog and I participate in the Jewish Book Carnival. Organized by the Association of Jewish Libraries, the Carnival is a monthly online event “where bloggers who blog about Jewish books can meet, read and comment on each others’ posts.”

    Each month’s Carnival posts on or about the 15th of the month, and different bloggers volunteer to serve as hosts. I’m proud to announce that the September 2013 Jewish Book Carnival–which will be the first Carnival of the new Jewish year 5774–will be hosted here on My Machberet.

    New contributors are welcome! Please take a look at past Carnivals to get a sense of the posts that are featured. (Authors who blog–please note that we do not feature posts in which authors blog about their own books.)

    If you’re interested in participating, please send the link to your selected contribution to me no later than Thursday, September 12 (earlier is better!). I look forward to hearing from you.

    Jewish Literary Links for Shabbat

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    Photo Credit: Reut Miryam Cohen
    Every Friday morning My Machberet presents an assortment of Jewish-interest links, primarily of the literary variety.

  • From London: new audio recordings from the 2013 Jewish Book Week festival. Listen to sessions that featured Shani Boianjiu, Edith Pearlman, Francesca Segal and Jami Attenberg, Laurent Binet, and many others.
  • Also from Britain: B.J. Epstein acquaints us with Into the Light: The Medieval Hebrew Poetry of Meir of Norwich for Wales Arts Review.
  • Back in the U.S.A., The Forward brings together authors Joanna Hershon and Adelle Waldman and asks them, among other questions, “What are your thoughts about being a Jewish writer?”
  • Lots of Jewish-lit info in the August Jewish Book Carnival, hosted by Leora Wenger.
  • On the Jewesses with Attitude blog, Miriam Cantor-Stone writes a letter to the late playwright Wendy Wasserstein.

    • Shabbat shalom, everyone.