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Jewish Book Council
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Jewish Book Council presents Jewish authors in conversation, book club conversations, and more.
Jewish Book Council is a non-for-profit dedicated to promoting the reading, writing, and publishing of books of Jewish interest. Find out more at www.jewishbookcouncil.org.
Jewish Book Council is a non-for-profit dedicated to promoting the reading, writing, and publishing of books of Jewish interest. Find out more at www.jewishbookcouncil.org.
2024 Global Literary Alliance Event: with Authors Elizabeth McCracken and Sabrina Orah Mark
Join The Global Jewish Literary Alliance for a conversation between authors Elizabeth McCracken, the 2024 Wingate Prize winner for her book The Hero of this Book, and Sabrina Orah Mark, Jewish Book Council’s 73rd National Jewish Book Award winner for the Autobiography and Memoir category for her book Happily: A Personal History-with Fairy Tales. The two authors discussed their books, which revolve around complicated relationships with family, the struggles and joys of motherhood, and the relationship the author has with themselves as a person and a writer. The conversation was moderated by Jewish Book Council’s fiction editor, Josh Rolnick. The virtual event took place on Thursday, June 20th at 1:00 PM ET.
To purchase one or either of these author’s books, please click: bookshop.org/lists/a-global-literary-conversation-with-elizabeth-mccracken-and-sabrina-orah-mark
Speakers:
Elizabeth McCracken is the author of eight books: Here’s Your Hat What’s Your Hurry, The Giant’s House, Niagara Falls All Over Again, An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination, Thunderstruck & Other Stories, Bowlaway, The Souvenir Museum, and The Hero of This Book. She’s received grants and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Liguria Study Center, the American Academy in Berlin, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Thunderstruck & Other Stories won the 2015 Story Prize. Her work has been published in The Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize, The O. Henry Prize, The New York Times Magazine, and many other places. She teaches at the University of Texas at Austin, and in the low residency MFA program at Bennington College. You can find her rather often, entirely too often, really, on Twitter.
Raised in Brooklyn, NY, Sabrina Orah Mark earned a BA from Barnard College, Columbia University. She also earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and a PhD in English from the University of Georgia. She is the author of the poetry collections Tsim Tsum, and The Babies (winner of the Saturnalia Book Prize). Her collection of stories, Wild Milk, won the Georgia Author of the Year Award for Short Story and was a finalist for the Townsend Prize for Fiction. “Happily,” her collection of essays on fairytales and motherhood began as a monthly column in The Paris Review, and recently won a National Jewish Book Award. Mark’s accomplishments include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Sustainable Arts Foundation Award, a fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center, and a Creative Capital Award. In addition to teaching private workshops she currently teaches nonfiction, fiction, and poetry for the Bennington Writing Seminars. She lives in Athens, Georgia, with her husband, Reginald McKnight, and their two sons.
About The Global Jewish Literary Alliance
The Global Jewish Literary Alliance is an international collaboration that will provide resources and community for Jewish writers, and those writing books of Jewish interest. The Alliance aims to encourage more writers to write Jewish content and explore what that might be, as well as provide annually updated resources to connect professionals and writers and create community. The Global Jewish Literary Resource Center provides information on funding opportunities, residences, and events for the Jewish writing community in the Resource Center here. If you know of any resources for the Jewish writing community and would like them included in our Resource Center, please submit them here!
The Alliance aims to support a global ecosystem of Jewish arts and culture, with a specific focus on the literary arts, ensuring writers have the resources they need to write Jewish books, that readers are aware of these works, and that Jewish communities and institutions have the resources they need to create meaningful programs and events around Jewish literature.
The members of the GJLA are The Wingate Prize (UK), Jewish Book Council (US), JCC Association of North America (US and Canada), JW3 (UK), and the Jewish Literary Foundation (UK).
To purchase one or either of these author’s books, please click: bookshop.org/lists/a-global-literary-conversation-with-elizabeth-mccracken-and-sabrina-orah-mark
Speakers:
Elizabeth McCracken is the author of eight books: Here’s Your Hat What’s Your Hurry, The Giant’s House, Niagara Falls All Over Again, An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination, Thunderstruck & Other Stories, Bowlaway, The Souvenir Museum, and The Hero of This Book. She’s received grants and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Liguria Study Center, the American Academy in Berlin, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Thunderstruck & Other Stories won the 2015 Story Prize. Her work has been published in The Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize, The O. Henry Prize, The New York Times Magazine, and many other places. She teaches at the University of Texas at Austin, and in the low residency MFA program at Bennington College. You can find her rather often, entirely too often, really, on Twitter.
Raised in Brooklyn, NY, Sabrina Orah Mark earned a BA from Barnard College, Columbia University. She also earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and a PhD in English from the University of Georgia. She is the author of the poetry collections Tsim Tsum, and The Babies (winner of the Saturnalia Book Prize). Her collection of stories, Wild Milk, won the Georgia Author of the Year Award for Short Story and was a finalist for the Townsend Prize for Fiction. “Happily,” her collection of essays on fairytales and motherhood began as a monthly column in The Paris Review, and recently won a National Jewish Book Award. Mark’s accomplishments include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Sustainable Arts Foundation Award, a fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center, and a Creative Capital Award. In addition to teaching private workshops she currently teaches nonfiction, fiction, and poetry for the Bennington Writing Seminars. She lives in Athens, Georgia, with her husband, Reginald McKnight, and their two sons.
About The Global Jewish Literary Alliance
The Global Jewish Literary Alliance is an international collaboration that will provide resources and community for Jewish writers, and those writing books of Jewish interest. The Alliance aims to encourage more writers to write Jewish content and explore what that might be, as well as provide annually updated resources to connect professionals and writers and create community. The Global Jewish Literary Resource Center provides information on funding opportunities, residences, and events for the Jewish writing community in the Resource Center here. If you know of any resources for the Jewish writing community and would like them included in our Resource Center, please submit them here!
The Alliance aims to support a global ecosystem of Jewish arts and culture, with a specific focus on the literary arts, ensuring writers have the resources they need to write Jewish books, that readers are aware of these works, and that Jewish communities and institutions have the resources they need to create meaningful programs and events around Jewish literature.
The members of the GJLA are The Wingate Prize (UK), Jewish Book Council (US), JCC Association of North America (US and Canada), JW3 (UK), and the Jewish Literary Foundation (UK).
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70th National Jewish Book Award Virtual Celebration
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Jewish Book Council honored the winners of the 70th National Jewish Book Awards on April 12, 2021.
Virtual 71st National Jewish Book Award Celebration
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Watch Jewish Book Council and the winners of the 71st National Jewish Book Awards celebrate their accomplishments! The virtual celebration featured remarks from the 2021 winners live from their homes. See the full list of winners here: www.jewishbookcouncil.org/events/71st-national-jewish-book-awards-celebration.
Unpacking the Book: The Heart of the Matter: Two Rabbis Discuss Love in the Jewish Tradition
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2024 Paper Brigade’s Short Story Club: “Holograms” with Adam Schorin
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Watch Adam Schorin and Paper Brigade’s editors for the final installment of Paper Brigade’s Short Story Club this season! This event took place on Wednesday, April 3, 2024, 12:30 PM ET. At this half-hour meeting, we discussed Adam Schorin’s“Holograms,” which follows Sammy, a young Jewish American expat in Berlin. Visiting an exhibit of holograms of Holocaust survivors with ...
2024 Paper Brigade’s Short Story Club: “Noble” with Scott Nadelson
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Watch Scott Nadelson and Paper Brigade’s editors to kick off the third season of Paper Brigade’s Short Story Club! This event took place on Tuesday, March 12, 2024, 12:30 PM ET. At this half-hour meeting, we discussed Scott Nadelson’s “Noble,” a story about a young Polish Jewish man in a shtetl at the turn of the eighteenth century - and how his concerns about personal legac...
Unpacking the Book: Always the Other: The Continued Rise of Antisemitism from Dreyfus to Today
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Please enjoy Rabbi Diana Fersko and author Maurice Samuels in a discussion about antisemitism - what it is born out of, why does it spread, and most importantly, what we can learn from its persistence in the world today. Moderated by Stephanie Butnick, host of Tablet’s Unorthodox podcast. Copies of both books were available for purchase and signing at the event. To purchase ...
Unpacking the Book: Two Diasporic Journeys Out of the Ottoman Empire
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Please enjoy Elizabeth Graver and Jordan Salama in the first event of the 2024 Unpacking the Book Jewish Authors in Conversation series, which was a conversation about about Mizrachi and Sephardic diasporic journeys, both in fiction and real-life. A personal and introspective discussion exploring displacement, endurance, and family as home, while traveling (in our imaginat...
Paper Brigade’s Short Story Club: “Land of Milk and Honey” by Gina Pfeffer-Mulligan
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Join Gina Pfeffer-Mulligan and Paper Brigade’s editors for the final meeting of the 2023 season of Paper Brigade’s Short Story Club! At this half-hour meeting, we will discuss Gina Pfeffer-Mulligan’s “Land of Milk and Honey.” The event was free and open to the public, and participants were warmly encouraged to join the conversation. Read “Land of Milk and Honey” onli...
Unpacking the Book: You’re Laughing at That? A Deeper Look at Jewish Humor
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Please enjoy Judy Gold and Jeremy Dauber in the last event of the 2023 Unpacking the Book Jewish Authors in Conversation series, which was a conversation about Jewish comedy - what makes us laugh, what doesn’t, and how that has changed throughout the years. It was a look back and a look forward at the world of Jewish comedy and humor! Moderated by Stephanie Butnick, host of Tabl...
Unpacking the Book: Law and Disorder: A Conversation about Mental Health and Crime
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On Thursday, April 20th, authors Jonathan Rosen and Rachel Aviv engaged in a conversation about mental illness and crime in today’s culture, exploring how the facts can be distorted through observation and spectacle, and how mental illness and crime can affect the Jewish community specifically and differently than other communities. Moderated by Stephanie Butnic...
Paper Brigade’s Short Story Club: “Furthermore” with Miron C. Izakson and Joseph Faust
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Join Miron C. Izakson, Joseph Faust, and Paper Brigade’s editors for the second meeting of the 2023 season of Paper Brigade’s Short Story Club! At this half-hour meeting, we discussed the 2022 winner of the Paper Brigade Award for New Israeli Fiction in Honor of Jane Weitzman: an excerpt from Furthermore written by Miron C. Izakson and translated by Joseph Faust. The event w...
Paper Brigade’s Short Story Club: “The Virgin Grandmother” with Kate Schmier
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This event took place on Thursday, March 23, 2023, from 12:30-1pm on Zoom. Enjoy Kate Schmier and Paper Brigade’s editors kicking off the second season of Paper Brigade’s Short Story Club! At this half-hour meeting, they discussed Kate Schmier’s“The Virgin Grandmother.” The event was free and open to the public, and participants were warmly encouraged to join the conversation...
Virtual Unpacking the Book: Escaping the Holocaust with Jonathan Freedland + Weina Dai Randel
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To purchase a copy of Jonathan Freedland’s The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World or Weina Dai Randel’s Night Angels, please click here! Enjoy Jonathan Freedland and Weina Dai Randel in a conversation about the stories we know and tell about escaping the Holocaust - fact, fiction, and the sometimes blurred line between them. Moderated by Stephanie ...
Koshersoul: A Conversation with Michael W. Twitty and Adeena Sussman
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Join Jewish Book Council and best-selling author Michael W. Twitty in a conversation about identity, food, culture, and intersectionality. Koshersoul is a thought-provoking memoir that looks at the creation of African-Jewish foods as a result of migration and the diaspora. Michael Twitty will be joined by Adeena Sussman, food writer and author of the upcoming book ...
Paper Brigade’s Short Story Club: “The Little Bottles” with Abigail Weaver
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Paper Brigade’s Short Story Club: “The Little Bottles” with Abigail Weaver
Paper Brigade's Short Story Club: "The Realist" with Basia Winograd [CLIP]
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Paper Brigade's Short Story Club: "The Realist" with Basia Winograd [CLIP]
Unpacking the Book: Gary Shteyngart & Claire Stanford- Happiness in the Time of Technology
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Joshua Cohen's Acceptance Speech at the 71st National Jewish Book Awards
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Joshua Cohen's Acceptance Speech at the 71st National Jewish Book Awards
Unpacking the Book: Lisa Barr and James McAuley - Stolen Art and Reclaiming a Legacy
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Paper Brigade’s Short Story Club:“Shaare Emunah” with Steven Volynets
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Virtual Unpacking the Book: Gal Beckerman and Talia Lavin - Where Do Radicals Come From?
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Paper Brigade’s Short Story Club: “Into the Mud” with Yael van der Wouden
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Writing Europe Before the Holocaust A Conversation with Rachel Kadish and Menachem Kaiser
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Virtual Launch Party for the 2022/5782 issue of Paper Brigade
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Virtual Launch Party for the 2022/5782 issue of Paper Brigade
More Than I Love My Life: A Book Conversation with David Grossman and Marilyn Hassid
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More Than I Love My Life: A Book Conversation with David Grossman and Marilyn Hassid
Unpacking the Book: Rachel Bloom and Tovah Feldshuh
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Hannah Arendt and Lucy Dawidowicz: Zionism & Israel in the Minds of Two Great Intellectuals
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From Left to Right…and Everything in Between: The Importance of Jewish Political Diversity
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From Left to Right…and Everything in Between: The Importance of Jewish Political Diversity
You cry antisemitism... meanwhile the country that says it represents all Jewish folk commits crimes, has been committing crimes..and it seems will continue in committing those crimes. We all know what I'm referring to. When will you figure it out?
On the other hand, I've been spared the awful side effects of the powerful psych meds schizophrenics take. My wife used to encourage me to be grateful for my blessings.
I even envied Mr.Lauder since at least his illness was improved- however painfully by medication - while there's no medicinal treatment for my own mental incompetence.
Also, like Me. Lauder I bear responsibility for the death of the woman who loved me. I failed to call 911 in time for my dying wife.
I can actually relate strongly Mr. Lauder as some of my outward symptoms are similar, although my diagnosis is autism rather than schizophrenia and my academic degrees are in History rather than economics and law. Indeed, doctors have sometimes misdiagnosed autistic patients as sczohprenic.
What about adult guardianship? That's a way around legal barriers to involuntary hospitalization and medication. It's actually much easier to have a shrink verify someone's inability to make correct decisions and act in their own best interests than to prove them a danger to themselves and others. Another advantage is you can keep people from legally defending themselves because obviously they don't know what they're doing
Is the American Jewish community truly embattled ? Really ? How? Compared to Black Americans their life in the USA 2022 is a rather charmed one.
Thank you ❤️
That scene where Naomi tells her that of course she loves her but it's about survival was definitely my biggest cry moment in the series. Our big challenge is to always remember that survival is number 1, but to never forget that it is only a vessel for the things that actually matter, to never minimize or erase those things. Anyway, the show is amazing, Tova is amazing, Rachel is amazing, thank you for this!
Two of the most talented people in theater.
Why is Rachel using a green screen?
For fun!
In the Israel the minds of great Jewish intellect and tradition have died it's a Shanda. Now to be fair there has been a need for a safe Jewish harbor in the midst of pogram after pogram through out history culminating in the holocaust and also passion plays ( looking at you Mel Gibson). But it's a shame that in them finding safety and power they in turn become the aggressors and persecuters of Christ. For it is in the lamb that he shepperds, in the weak and against the State and worldly power their refuge is in his death, which he overcame. Perhaps it just the world and its turn the pray will soon find it self predator and back again. This old funny, absurdity wicked world let no man judge or rule to harsh, lest he eventually himself find his way to the other side of its judgement.