Earlier today, the Jewish News of Northern California published my book review of an anthology of poetry and essays in response to the tragic events of October 7.
Am Yisrael Chai is a very special book. I describe it as
“… raw, unvarnished and often uncomfortable to read, but that’s why its testimony is so powerful: It is a reflection that itself is an experience.
There will be time in the future to process, to contextualize the events and to compartmentalize the pain, but right now, these writers, poets, and liturgists are bearing witness to what is [. . .] “
This is my first Jewish News book review. My previous two (of Toibin’s The Magician and Ryziński’s Foucault in Warsaw) came out in Lambda Literary Review.
Lane Igoudin | Author, Professor, Dad 