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They have all the fun in California, apparently.

"For Jewish American Heritage Month, we invite you to share in the richness and diversity of Jewish culture, art, and stories in this celebration at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, curated by Reboot Network member Adam Swig and his nonprofit Value Culture."

Tix: https://www.calacademy.org/nightlife/nightlife-jewish-american-heritage-celebration

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NightLife: Jewish American Heritage Celebration
California Academy of Sciences
Thursday, May 15 from 6 pm to 10 PM
For ages 21+

ake in genre-crossing live performances showcasing the Jewish diaspora, ranging from a viral rap sensation to Yiddish music that pays homage to a time gone by. Experience the complex mix and long history of joy and pain in Jewish culture through thought-provoking talks on important topics like the Holocaust or a lively cast of standup comedians offering a little levity. Connect with local Jewish organizations, nosh on tasty treats, and more. Among the performers and speakers are author, artist, and filmmaker Tiffany Shlain, a Reboot Network member who will discuss her work exploring feminism, philosophy, technology, neuroscience, nature, and Judaism, and fellow Reboot Network member Manny Yekutiel, owner of Manny’s in San Francisco, who will be in conversation with Holocaust survivor Sami Steigmann.

For our friends near Berkeley:
We are thrilled that Reboot’s CEO David Katznelson, as well as Reboot Network members Adam Mansbach and Michael David Lukas will be among the presenters at the Jewish Arts & Bookfest, Sunday, May 4 at The Magnes in celebration of Jewish American Heritage Month.

The Jewish Arts & Bookfest, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m., will bring together more than 30 authors and artists for panel discussions, workshops, readings, teen programs, and performances that showcase the Jewish experience through art, culture, and storytelling with activities for all ages.

Tix: https://magnes.berkeley.edu/jewish-arts-and-bookfest/

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Jewish Arts & Bookfest
The Magnes, Berkely
Sunday, May 4th from 11 AM to 4 PM

Reboot participants:

Holding the Widest Tent at 12 p.m.
As the political ground shifts beneath us with vertiginous speed, Ayin Press’s Penina Eilberg-Schwartz, Jewish Film Institute’s Lexi Leban, Reboot’s David Katznelson, LABA’s Elissa Strauss and the Magnes’s Hannah Weisman will explore what it means to create and curate Jewish culture that holds the full complexity of the moment? This panel brings together curators from across the Jewish arts and literary world who are wrestling with this question in creative ways. Together, they will explore how to build inclusive cultural spaces that honor a multiplicity of perspectives, how to uncover hidden stories and responsibly engage with inherited narratives, and how to forge new constellations of meaning in service of a better world.

Oracles and Golems: Jewish Futurism and Fantasy at 1 p.m.
This author panel featuring Adam Mansbach, Helene Wecker, and Michael David Lukas, will explore the vast and varied landscape of Jewish speculative fiction from Altneuland to The Yiddish Policemen’s Union and beyond. Looking at science fiction, fantasy, fabulism, and speculative historical fiction, they will ask what it means (politically, aesthetically, practically) for Jews to imagine and write new worlds, whether there is a particularly Jewish mode of futurism, and what other movements and literary traditions it might intersect with.

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Find Your Voice.
Write Your Story.
A Jewish feminist memoir writing workshop with Esther Amini
Wednesday, April 30th, 8 PM ET / 5 PM PT

"When comedy writer and Reboot friend Rob Kutner decided to write a comedic history of the Jews, The Jews: 5,000 Years and Counting, released this week, he figured he had enough experience making depressing political news funny that he could navigate the complicated history.

But then October 7 happened, forcing him to rethink everything. In a blog for Reboot, Kutner explains how he grappled with the new challenge by embracing some advice from his editor: “We’ve been through worse. We’re not going anywhere.” He realized Jews have continued to grow, pivot, and flourish even in the face of every pressure not to."

Buy the Book: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-jews-5-000-years-and-counting-rob-kutner/qAUimQvtYT8kDWUo

Read the Article: https://rebooting.com/article/comedy/

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Turning Tragedy into Comedy the Jewish Way
5000 Years and Counting

Illustration of Moses holding a cellphone
"Forty Years to Destination...?"

Rob Kutner
Author of Apocalypse Now: Turn the End Times into the Best of Times!

Learning about, arguing about, and yes, even joking about the worst things that have been done to us (and sometimes by us) can all be invaluable steps forward on our people’s never-ending mission to try and make things better. Read more from Kutner here.

A new book about Oct. 7 aims to depict the humanity behind the horror
By Andrew Silow-Carroll September 11, 2024

"On Thursday, Yaron will be appearing on a virtual panel, sponsored by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and the National Library of Israel, with Amir Tibon, the Haaretz journalist whose new book, “The Gates of Gaza,” describes how he was rescued from Kibbutz Nahal Oz on Oct. 7 by his own father...

...Hamas didn’t discriminate among left-wing kibbutzniks, blissed-out club kids or right-wing followers of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Nor did they spare Bedouins, Thai and Nepalese migrant workers, or the Christian and Muslim Arabs who, she writes, “had the gall to live among Jews as fellow citizens.”

Buy the Book: https://bookshop.org/p/books/10-7-100-human-stories-lee-yaron/21003210

Read the Article: https://www.jta.org/2024/09/11/israel/a-new-book-about-oct-7-aims-to-depict-the-humanity-behind-the-horror

Register for the Webinar: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdmaoEVUKglz6cDDzkzTKBGFqS2jSuV0q2P-wB7ADjCTIHcFQ/viewform

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JTA Culture

A new book about Oct. 7 aims to depict the humanity behind the horror.

10/7 - 100 Human Stories by Lee Yaron

In "10/7," journalist Lee Yaron profiles victims of the Oct. 7 massacre from a wide range of communities. (Uri Bareket; St. Martin's Press)

TA and the National Library of Israel present an online conversation with the authors of three new books about the events of Oct. 7 and the future of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Amir Tibon, Ilan Troen and Lee Yaron. Thursday, Sept. 12, 6 p.m. ET.

From JTA:

Growing up in a middle-class Jewish family in Laurelton, Queens (her mother chaired local Hadassah chapters), Hettie Cohen dreamed of other places.

Read the NYT Obituary: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/24/books/hettie-jones-dead.html

A fixture in Manhattan’s East Village, she died on Aug. 13 in Philadelphia at 90.

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Hettie Jones, one half of a Beat generation power couple
Hettie Jones

Hettie Jones reads at Cooper Union's Great Hall in New York City, June 11, 2019. (Wikimedia)

Growing up in a middle-class Jewish family in Laurelton, Queens (her mother chaired local Hadassah chapters), Hettie Cohen dreamed of other places.

After college in Virginia she plunged into the Greenwich Village bohemia of jazz, Beat poetry and leftist politics and met and married an up-and-coming Black poet and playwright named LeRoi Jones. Together they created an influential magazine and publishing house and raised two girls.

In 1964 Jones would divorce her, changing his name to Amiri Baraka as he embraced the Black nationalist politics of the era. Hettie Jones soldiered on, writing more than 20 books — including an acclaimed memoir, “How I Became Hettie Jones” — teaching poetry and mentoring other writers. Her books for children and teenages often focused on people of color.

“In those and other works, Hettie set a path so sensationally followed by artists like Jacqueline Woodson today: children needed to learn about diversity because we lived in a diverse world,” wrote the critic Hilton Als.

A fixture in Manhattan’s East Village, she died on Aug. 13 in Philadelphia at 90.

From Lilith Magazine:
Fiction: Disillusionment on the Eve of Revolt/Birth, by Diana Fenves
Second place, Lilith 2024 Fiction Contest July 29, 2024

Read the story here: https://lilith.org/articles/fiction-disillusionment-on-the-eve-of-revolt-birth/

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Summer Fiction: Three Short Stories
Pregnancy, motherhood, the self.

Disillusionment on the Eve of Revolt/Birth
by Diana Fenves

Being pregnant, unemployed, and uninsured is like walking around with a ticking time bomb in my stomach. Everyone sees me expanding, my distended belly. The dark circles under my eyes. My puffy face. The smell of my vomit breath. Everyone congratulates me, but no one offers me a job. It must make them uncomfortable, how sad and tired I look. They demand I suffer with a beatific smile; that I, like other women, earn the gift of my burdens.

May her memory be for a blessing.

Kveller: Wait, The Author of “Sweet Valley High” Was Jewish?

Francine Pascal, aka Francine Paula Rubin, died this week at age 92.
By Daci Platt Aug 1, 2024

Read the article: https://www.kveller.com/wait-the-author-of-sweet-valley-high-was-jewish/

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From JTA:
Francine Pascal was born Francine Paula Rubin and grew up in Queens, New York with her Jewish family. She and her second husband, John Pascal, wrote for soap operas and collaborated with her brother, playwright Michael Stewart, on a Broadway musical, “George M!” At a friend’s suggestion, she wrote in 1983 a book aimed at teenagers, set in the fictitious Southern California town of Sweet Valley. After writing seven books herself, she oversaw a team of ghostwriters for what became one of the most successful young adult series ever: The Sweet Valley High series and its various spinoffs have sold over 200 million copies. Pascal died on July 28 in Manhattan. She was 92.

How Gabrielle Zevin’s ‘Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow’ became an unlikely lightning rod in literary fights over the Israel-Hamas war, By Andrew Lapin July 23, 2024

"...Zevin has never publicized any of her views on Israel. But she has become an unlikely poster figure for the culture wars around Israel that have permeated arts & culture spaces, particularly the literary world, since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war. ...A manager at a Chicago bookstore, City Lit, told book club members that they could no longer vote to read Zevin’s book owing to her perceived Zionism.

“It was brought to my attention that the author Gabrielle Zevin is a Zionist, and I am not comfortable having us reading something by her, especially knowing people would buy it from the store & she would receive monetary support from us,” the assistant manager wrote in an email..."

*Perceived zionism* = being Jewish.

https://www.jta.org/2024/07/23/culture/how-gabrielle-zevins-tomorrow-and-tomorrow-and-tomorrow-became-an-unlikely-lightning-rod-in-literary-fights-over-the-israel-hamas-war

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Culture
How Gabrielle Zevin’s ‘Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow’ became an unlikely lightning rod in literary fights over the Israel-Hamas war

Photo of the author with an inset image of her book cover.

Homes of the Past: A Lost Jewish Museum with Jeffrey Shandler and Deborah Dash Moore

In 1940s New York, immigrant Jewish scholars sought to build a museum to commemorate their lost worlds and people. Among the Jews who arrived in the United States in the early 1940s were a small number of Polish scholars who had devoted their professional lives to the study of Europe’s Yiddish-speaking Jews at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Faced with the devastating knowledge that returning to their former homes and resuming their scholarly work there was no longer viable, they sought to address their profound sense of loss by continuing their work, under radically different circumstances, to document the European Jewish lives, places, and ways of living that were being destroyed. In pursuing this daunting agenda, they decided to create a museum to memorialize East European Jewry and educate American Jews about this legacy. YIVO scholars determinedly pursued this undertaking for several years, publicizing the initiative and collecting materials to exhibit. However, the Museum of the Homes of the Past was abandoned shortly after the war ended.

Homes of the Past explores this largely unknown episode of modern Jewish history and museum history and demonstrates that the project, even though it was never realized, marked a critical inflection point in the dynamic interrelations between Jews in America and Eastern Europe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx2tTPbJsYI
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Frieda Johles Forman, ‘fiery’ feminist who rediscovered Yiddish women authors, dies at 87, By Andrew Silow-Carroll June 14, 2024

https://www.jta.org/2024/06/14/obituaries/frieda-johles-forman-fiery-feminist-who-rediscovered-yiddish-women-authors-dies-at-87

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Frieda Johles Forman, a trailblazer of feminist Jewish studies, died June 9 at Toronto General Hospital. She was 87. Her 1994 book, “Found Treasures: Stories By Yiddish Women Writers,” was the first anthology of its kind, and plucked writers like Rokhl Brokhes, Fradel Shtock and Rikudah Potash out of obscurity.

If you're thinking there's no way that a war on the other side of the planet can profoundly affect the Jewish Community in a negative way, well, the history of Soviet Jews suggests otherwise...

40 years ago, a refusenik made art of the Soviet Jewish tragedy. At 82, he is seeing its first English translation, By Penny Schwartz December 18, 2018

https://www.jta.org/2018/12/18/culture/40-years-ago-a-refusenik-made-art-of-the-soviet-jewish-tragedy-at-82-he-is-seeing-its-first-english-translation

OBITUARY: David Shrayer-Petrov
January 28, 1936 – June 9, 2024

https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/brookline-ma/david-shrayer-petrov-11853446

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In the wake of the Six-Day War in 1967, the Soviet Union had become increasingly antisemitic, intolerable circumstances that eventually pushed David Shrayer-Petrov, his wife, Emilia Shrayer and their son, Maxim D. Shrayer, to apply in 1979 for exit visas. The consequences of their bold decision were immediate: Shrayer-Petrov was stripped of his academic medical position and was tossed out of the Union of Soviet Writers. For the next eight years, until they were granted permission to emigrate to the United States, they faced pernicious antisemitic harassment. In 1987, the family settled in Providence, where Shrayer-Petrov worked as a medical researcher at Brown University. He continued his parallel path as a writer, including the 2014 publication of “Dinner With Stalin and Other Stories.” But it wasn’t until 2018 that he saw the publication of "Doctor Levitin," the English-language translation of the groundbreaking novel that he had penned in Moscow, in Russian, some 40 years earlier. “Doctor Levitin” chronicled the struggles of refuseniks and explored the contradictions of mixed, Jewish and Slavic marriages. He and Emilia, his wife of 62 years, relocated to Boston to be close to their son, Maxim, an award-winning writer (“Leaving Russia”), and his family. Shrayer-Petrov died on June 9, at age 88. – Penny Schwartz

#BookRecs I recommend reading The Pope at War by David Kertzer, so long as you are up for immersing yourself in the details of Vatican policy during World War Two. I live in an area where Pacelli, the pope during that period, is highly respected. He does not deserve that respect. The most frustrating thing about books like these is that they will never reach the audience that needs them most. Here is a link to my goodreads review. Note: I am not interested in arguing with Pacelli’s supporters. #Books #History #Bookstodon #Holocaust #WorldWar2 #Fascists #Reading #BookReview #GoodReads #JewishAuthors #Jewish

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5755951657

Extremely excited that Spouseperson @rblemberg is a Le Guin prize finalist!!

https://electricliterature.com/announcing-the-2023-shortlist-for-the-ursula-k-le-guin-prize-for-fiction/?fbclid=IwAR2t6FwOtgdnJPa5wpwM8BY7SUFb8It-OrVrogzPsaHcoeOJhGKXNNTtdNw

Doubly so that it is the Birdverse short story collection from Fairwood, I feel like this book has gone a bit underappreciated with RB's other books being out this year, BUT IT IS SO GOOD and I am so happy.

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Maxine Rose Schur is the award-winning author of The Word Dancer, a magical middle grade fantasy about the power of words. When traitors take over the kingdom, a young girl named Wynnfrith escapes with the crown prince. Together with a ragtag group of magical friends, she must find her own strength and restore the kingdom to safety.

https://www.snowywingspublishing.com/book/the-word-dancer/

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Maxine Rose Schur is a Jewish American author who lives in California

The cover of The Word Dancer features an illustration of two children running through dark woods. A gap between the trees reveals the sky above, and through the sky soars the magical Word Dancer, a strange man who wields the power of words

Jamie Krakover (@Rockets2Writing) is the author of Tracker220, a YA scifi about a Jewish teenager who is forced to choose between her faith and the technology that powers her futuristic world—a choice that leads to dangerous consequences.

https://www.snowywingspublishing.com/book/tracker220/

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Jamie Krakover is a Jewish American author who lives in St. Louis, Missouri.

USA Today-bestselling author Mindy Klasky is the author of the Keara’s Raven duology, a middle grade fantasy about a girl who forges a magical bond with a raven she’s meant to sacrifice, and the rebellion they embark on together when she chooses to save her darkbeast instead.

https://www.snowywingspublishing.com/book-series/kearas-raven/

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Mindy Klasky is a Jewish American author

The cover of Keara's Raven: Escape features an illustration of a young girl with a raven perched on her arm, posing in front of a medieval travelers caravan

Clara Kensie is the author of the RITA award-winning Deception So Deadly, the first book in a thrilling paranormal romantic suspense series following a girl from a family of psychics on the run from a telepathic killer.

https://www.snowywingspublishing.com/book/deception-so-deadly/

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Clara Kensie is a Jewish author hailing from the Chicago area

The cover of Deception So Deadly features purple and blue flower petals and swirling vines wrapped around the title of the text and a silhouetted teenage couple.

May is #JewishAmericanHeritageMonth and we’re celebrating our Jewish authors! You can support them this month or any month by checking out these awesome titles.

https://www.snowywingspublishing.com/2023/05/08/books-from-our-jewish-authors/

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Text reads: "Our history is our strength | Jewish American Heritage Month"

Preparing for our latest launch, right here during Jewish American Heritage Month -

HYMAN, a novel by Lawrence Bush!

Rabbi Hyman is the founder of Encounter Judaism, a fictional progressive denomination. But as the jubilee of the movement approaches, nothing goes as planned...

Satire with bite, but also with empathy!

https://jort.link/www.benyehudapress.com/books/hyman/

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