Michelle Lesh

[Michelle Lesh @michelle_lesh]

Wonderful and bittersweet news 🤍

[Melbourne University Publishing @MUPublishing]

‘Courageous and life-affirming.’ 🧡

We’re absolutely thrilled that the late Mark Raphael Baker’s memoir, A SEASON OF DEATH, has been shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year.

Congratulations to all the shortlisted authors!

[Melbourne University Publishing @MUPublishing]

A SEASON OF DEATH 'wraps its arms around our deepest fears and holds them gently ... Even as he was dying, Mark Baker was fully himself, never more alive than when life was slipping away.'

Read the full review here: https://t.co/VOerXhjkHb

[Melbourne University Publishing @MUPublishing]

Join Michelle Lesh and Raimond Gaita in conversation with Michaela Kalowski to discuss A SEASON OF DEATH by Mark Raphael Baker at Gleebooks Glebe tomorrow, Tuesday 12 November at 6pm.

Please book here: https://t.co/JP7Jeny437

[Melbourne University Publishing @MUPublishing]

Michelle and Rai will discuss their special relationship to A SEASON OF DEATH, the sorrow and the joy in it and Mark’s astonishing achievement in writing it, with Sarah Krasnostein.

Book here: https://t.co/bNIPQHM9MS

[Michelle Lesh @michelle_lesh]

We will be speaking about it this Sunday with Paul Barclay:
https://t.co/hUIbSqCU4D

[Michelle Lesh @michelle_lesh]

It’s hard to believe that my husband's @MarkRaphBaker book, A Season of Death, is out in the world. It’s extraordinary that Mark was able to write such a profound book, and so beautifully, while facing his death. Here is an excerpt: https://t.co/88GBfgfrur via @australian

[Michelle Lesh @michelle_lesh]

After working for the past year with my step-father @RaimondGaita to bring it to publication, we are touched by its embrace and reception

[Melbourne University Publishing @MUPublishing]

Join us to celebrate Michelle Lesh and Raimond Gaita's special relationship to A SEASON OF DEATH by Mark Raphael Baker. In conversation with Paul Barclay.

Book here: https://t.co/SSEhLexiFq

[Melbourne University Publishing @MUPublishing]

In this session, recorded at MJBW 2024, panellists who knew Mark well speak on aspects of his life and work. Michelle Lesh and Raimond Gaita also read from A SEASON OF DEATH, Mark’s newly released posthumous memoir.

Watch here: https://t.co/5AS2nQxlkW

[Melbourne University Publishing @MUPublishing]

There is profound sorrow in this memoir but there is matching joy and much love, interwoven by a fine writer and thinker into a story that will deepen one's understanding of life 🧡

A SEASON OF DEATH is available here: https://t.co/k2fyybNKcr

[The Jewish Independent @TJI_au]

I believe in the Jewish peoples’ right to self-determination - but I am ashamed of what the Israeli government is doing, writes @michelle_lesh .

Read more: https://t.co/mmzV455tm4

[Michelle Lesh @michelle_lesh]

Some reflections in @Plus61J about missing my husband @MarkRaphBaker's voice, and about Gaza and international law https://t.co/0g7Sf4u1m1

[Michelle Lesh @michelle_lesh]

A shortened and edited version of the eulogy I gave at my husband's funeral @MarkRaphBaker @ABCReligion https://t.co/CcLaGK4Vn0

[Michelle Lesh @michelle_lesh]

Beautiful obituary of @MarkRaphBaker in @theage. Thank you @JulieSzego https://t.co/4QFDshxaDp

[Michelle Lesh @michelle_lesh]

Courage, wit and integrity: Raimond Gaita farewells writer, historian and son-in-law, Mark Raphael Baker via @ConversationEDU https://t.co/ji9noydZFD

[Mark Raphael Baker @MarkRaphBaker]

My personal reflections in @plus61j on attending a Melbourne protest with my wife @michelle_lesh & my baby daughter Melila in support of the mass Israel demonstrations, while witnessing events unfold through the prism of #PancreaticCancer @PancareAus
https://t.co/J6bsiagp1M

[Raimond Gaita @RaimondGaita]

https://t.co/nwV2pcGbxZ

[Institute for International Law and the Humanities @IILAH_UniMelb]

Join us today at 1pm for Michelle Lesh's (@michelle_lesh) timely seminar on 'The #BreretonReport and Its Conception of the Laws of War' with Hilary Charlesworth (@MelbLawSchool) acting as discussant. Register here: https://t.co/4x3TSG0Cqz

[Michelle Lesh @michelle_lesh]

Join @RedCrossAU & @ICRC for today's panel discussion on protracted conflict to launch the edition of the #IRRC with @epolicinski, @HKHGenevaCall, Filipa Schmitz Guinote & Sebastian Machado
Wednesday April 14, 18:00 (AEST), 10:00 (GVA) #IHL
https://t.co/TmsZuuaIwu