7 October 2023 Book I: Jewish Reflections from Around the Globe (hardcover)
| Author: | Brettschneider, Marla Sussman, Bonita | |
| Year: | 2024 | |
| Pages: | 332 | |
| ISBN: | 1-4955-1283-5 978-1-4955-1283-4 | |
| Price: | $219.95 + shipping | |
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7 October 2023 Book I
Jewish Reflections from Around the Globe offers a glimpse into some of the many perspectives on the horrors of Hamas’ 7 October massacre in Israel and events in Israel, Gaza, and Palestine since. This book is intended to reflect an historical moment of “the year of” 7 October 2023. The contributors in this book were drafting their pieces between 7 October 2023 and May 2024. We hope that this book will be helpful to people— including ordinary and suffering people, scholars, peacemakers, policy influencers, haters, empathizers, and all combinations of people—as the “now-ish” timing of the first six months after 7 October 2023 passes and particularly as more people, groups, institutes, movements, and governments claim that they have correctly assessed the period.
Jewish Reflections from Around the Globe offers a glimpse into some of the many perspectives on the horrors of Hamas’ 7 October massacre in Israel and events in Israel, Gaza, and Palestine since. This book is intended to reflect an historical moment of “the year of” 7 October 2023. The contributors in this book were drafting their pieces between 7 October 2023 and May 2024. We hope that this book will be helpful to people— including ordinary and suffering people, scholars, peacemakers, policy influencers, haters, empathizers, and all combinations of people—as the “now-ish” timing of the first six months after 7 October 2023 passes and particularly as more people, groups, institutes, movements, and governments claim that they have correctly assessed the period.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction
Acknowledgments
I Can’t Write Anonymous
An International Conversation: Indonesia, Nicaragua, Madagascar, Pakistan, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, US, Canada, and Israel
Speechless: A Sermon on Parshat Book
Dianne Cohler-Esses
Sudanese Refugee Camp: Ethiopian Jewish Displacement
Kes Adane Mekonen & a Woman Community Member
History Stops for No One: During the First Year After 7 October, 19 April 2024
Irena Klepfisz
Rabbi Capers Funnye: Reflections
Capers Funnye
The All-But-Invisible
Mira Rivera
The Day After
Beth Martin
An Open Letter to My Friends Who Signed “Philosophy for Palestine,” 4 November 2023
Seyla Benhabib
No Guilt
Ronnie Ben-Aron
Calaniot (Poppies)
Melody Meisel Klein
Ethiopian Jewish Advocacy: Letter of Support
from the Jewish Community in Addis Ababa to the Israeli Embassy
Comforting and Grief: Lessons from a War
Frimet Roth
In Memorial: From Campus to Kibbutz, Vivian Silver’s Legacy
Gila Axelrod
Skipping Shul this Shabbat
Yesoschar Katz
Rude Awakening Page 115 Judith Margolis
Ghanaian Jewish Advocacy: Message and Letter to the Israeli Consulate
Shomrei N’gi’ah-Do Not Touch
Sonja Pilz
Iraqi Farhud Survivor: I Survived a Pogrom in Iraq 82 Years Ago
Joseph Samuels
Toffee Migrations: Feminism in Times of Crisis
Robin Hackett
Jewish Pakistanis Respond
Curated by Z Karachi, Pakistan
What’s an Editor to Do?
Clare Kinberg
Federation des Juifs Noir: A French Jewish Response I
Guershon Nduwa
AmIFarafina: A French Jewish Response II
Hortense Tsiporah Bilé
I am Not a Politician: Return & Reconciliation
Aliza Arzt
Blog Posts
Joelle Novey
Who Would Have Thunk It?
Bonita Nathan Sussman
Côte d’Ivoire Documents
The Impact of 7 October 2023 on the Danite Community of Côte d’Ivoire
Paul Mette
Declaration of Support for Israel from the Jewish Communities of Côte D’Ivoire, 1 November 2023
Reply from the Israeli Ambassador in Abidjan to Juifs CIV Pour Israel Regarding 7 October Support
Rony Yedidia Clein
If Not With Others…How?
Denni Liebowitz
Dawn of a New Era
Gerald Sussman
A Jewish American Says “Not in My Name!”
Penny Rosenwasser
Refusing to Give a “Word:” On the Liturgical Absence of an Afro-Palestinian Rabbi
Walter Isaac
Fifteen Ways I’m Angry, 7 October 2023-April 2024
Debra Cash
Forgotten Historical Parallel and Ideological Precursors
Jason Guberman-P
Antisemitism in Paradise
Viva Hammer
From My Journal Page 263 Deborah Greniman
Who's the Fool who Told you Boys Don't Cry? Personal Reflections on 7 October
David Breakstone
How I Learned to Listen to the Other Side: A Personal Reflection on the Israel/Palestine Conflict
Sarah Silberstein Swartz
Appendix: Call for Papers
About the Editors
Introduction
Acknowledgments
I Can’t Write Anonymous
An International Conversation: Indonesia, Nicaragua, Madagascar, Pakistan, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, US, Canada, and Israel
Speechless: A Sermon on Parshat Book
Dianne Cohler-Esses
Sudanese Refugee Camp: Ethiopian Jewish Displacement
Kes Adane Mekonen & a Woman Community Member
History Stops for No One: During the First Year After 7 October, 19 April 2024
Irena Klepfisz
Rabbi Capers Funnye: Reflections
Capers Funnye
The All-But-Invisible
Mira Rivera
The Day After
Beth Martin
An Open Letter to My Friends Who Signed “Philosophy for Palestine,” 4 November 2023
Seyla Benhabib
No Guilt
Ronnie Ben-Aron
Calaniot (Poppies)
Melody Meisel Klein
Ethiopian Jewish Advocacy: Letter of Support
from the Jewish Community in Addis Ababa to the Israeli Embassy
Comforting and Grief: Lessons from a War
Frimet Roth
In Memorial: From Campus to Kibbutz, Vivian Silver’s Legacy
Gila Axelrod
Skipping Shul this Shabbat
Yesoschar Katz
Rude Awakening Page 115 Judith Margolis
Ghanaian Jewish Advocacy: Message and Letter to the Israeli Consulate
Shomrei N’gi’ah-Do Not Touch
Sonja Pilz
Iraqi Farhud Survivor: I Survived a Pogrom in Iraq 82 Years Ago
Joseph Samuels
Toffee Migrations: Feminism in Times of Crisis
Robin Hackett
Jewish Pakistanis Respond
Curated by Z Karachi, Pakistan
What’s an Editor to Do?
Clare Kinberg
Federation des Juifs Noir: A French Jewish Response I
Guershon Nduwa
AmIFarafina: A French Jewish Response II
Hortense Tsiporah Bilé
I am Not a Politician: Return & Reconciliation
Aliza Arzt
Blog Posts
Joelle Novey
Who Would Have Thunk It?
Bonita Nathan Sussman
Côte d’Ivoire Documents
The Impact of 7 October 2023 on the Danite Community of Côte d’Ivoire
Paul Mette
Declaration of Support for Israel from the Jewish Communities of Côte D’Ivoire, 1 November 2023
Reply from the Israeli Ambassador in Abidjan to Juifs CIV Pour Israel Regarding 7 October Support
Rony Yedidia Clein
If Not With Others…How?
Denni Liebowitz
Dawn of a New Era
Gerald Sussman
A Jewish American Says “Not in My Name!”
Penny Rosenwasser
Refusing to Give a “Word:” On the Liturgical Absence of an Afro-Palestinian Rabbi
Walter Isaac
Fifteen Ways I’m Angry, 7 October 2023-April 2024
Debra Cash
Forgotten Historical Parallel and Ideological Precursors
Jason Guberman-P
Antisemitism in Paradise
Viva Hammer
From My Journal Page 263 Deborah Greniman
Who's the Fool who Told you Boys Don't Cry? Personal Reflections on 7 October
David Breakstone
How I Learned to Listen to the Other Side: A Personal Reflection on the Israel/Palestine Conflict
Sarah Silberstein Swartz
Appendix: Call for Papers
About the Editors