Angry? Outraged? Anxious? Grieving? Us too. With everything happening in the world, we need a space to pause and pour it all out on the page.

On Friday, March 20, 12 pm ET | 11 am CT | 9 am PT, join us as a Jewish feminist community for a writers' hour facilitated by poet, novelist, & children's book author Lesléa Newman. Take an hour to fill up your cup so you can go back out into the world.

Write With Us: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/zwpfgub

All Jewish feminists welcome; expect kindness and curiosity.

In rage and joy, The Lilith Staff

#Mazeldon #Judaism #Jewish #JewishWriters #JewishWomen

"The usual perception of #Soviet #Jewish #literature after #WorldWarII is that there was none. The conversation around the decades after the #Holocaust usually focuses on the #refuseniks and large waves of emigration away from a place with a history of suppressing its Jewish minority.

A new collection of #translated #shortstories by Soviet #Jewishwriters, originally published in the #USSR in #Russian and — mind-blowingly — in #Yiddish, challenges that view. For someone who grew up in #Ukraine and #Russia not knowing much about my roots because my #Jewish grandfather remained silent on the subject of anything Jewish, I read “In the Shadow of the Holocaust” with a thirst I didn’t know I had.

In these 10 #stories by seven authors, Jewish survivors are dealing directly with the ruins of a world that is no more. Unlike their #American counterparts, however, they continue making a life in the proximity of the tragedy, among cemeteries and unmarked ravines."

https://www.jta.org/2026/02/20/ideas/long-overlooked-soviet-jewish-stories-written-after-the-holocaust-emerge-in-new-translation

#Audiblehas several #SaulBellow novels that are free (if you subscribe). I haven't read anything of his except high school or college freshman. He and #PhilipRoth were discussed and recommended in passing.

#ReadingRecommendations #JewishWriters #Literature #Fiction

My friend Faith Jones is giving a talk on the writer Shira Gorshman today, online, 5pmPST: "Gorshman’s stories follow the trajectory of 20th-century Jewish life in Eastern Europe: from the Lithuanian shtetl to the Russian Revolution, through the kibbutz and collective farms, to Central Asia during wartime and back to mid-century Soviet life."
(ticketed, $cdn10)
https://www.peretz-centre.org/event-details-registration/recovering-yiddish-women-writers-shira-gorshman-the-making-of-literary-history

#Yiddish #WomenWriters #JewishWriters

“For each of us, Jewish identity is not a weapon to wield in a fight for statist power but a fount of generational wisdom that says justice, justice, you shall pursue.”

#OpenLetter #JewishWriters

https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/a-dangerous-conflation/?affid=a

More and more of our authors are showing up here on Mastodon: today, welcome Rivqa Rafael at @rivqa!

She has stories in *counts on fingers* at least two of our anthologies, including #OtherCovenants: Alternate Histories of the Jewish People, which is about to launch:

https://www.benyehudapress.com/books/other-covenants/

And she has a queer Lilith story in #StrangeFire: Jewish Voices from the Pandemic -

https://www.benyehudapress.com/books/strange-fire/

#Mazeldon #JewishWriters #JewishAuthors #Jewish #QueerSFF

Bambi: cute, lovable, vulnerable ... a dark parable of antisemitic terror

#Bambi #FelixSalten #AntiSemitism #JewishWriters — https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/dec/25/bambi-cute-lovable-vulnerable-or-a-dark-parable-of-antisemitic-terror?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Just a thought I had

#judaism #jews #jewsofmastodon #jewish #jewishartist #jewishwriters #jewishmusic #jewishart #jewishbooks #jewishmusicians #jewishcomedians #jewishcomedy #antisemitism #kanye #kanyewest #resilience #creativity

This was a lovely conversation. If you're interested in community-building among writers in general, and Jewish writers in particular, check it out!

https://bit.ly/3GBDTMl
#writingcommunity #writing #jewish #jewishwriters #poetry #jewishpoetry