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On the 88th anniversary of Kristallnacht, we are turning to Rebecca Birrell's essay on Jewish artist's who inspired and shaped her stunning new novel: "'Fore­closed Pos­si­bil­i­ty': Res­ur­rect­ing Jew­ish Women Artists in Weimar Germany." bit.ly/4z9aaTi @HenryHolt
www.jewishbookcouncil.org “Foreclosed Possibility”: Resurrecting Jewish Women Artists in Weimar Germany The painting was one of the masterpieces of the collection, but until that summer I hadn’t spent much time looking at it.
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"A covenant is not mea­sured only by those who gath­er to renew it. It is also mea­sured by what they do for those who can­not be there." On Səgd this year, we're reading Shula Mola's powerful essay on the modern-day resonance of an ancient tradition. bit.ly/488fCdk
www.jewishbookcouncil.org Counting the Stones: What Səgd (ስግድ) Teaches Us About Solidarity Not long ago, I heard a story about why women carried stones up the mountain during Səgd, the Ethiopian Jewish holiday of renewing the covenant with God.