From Issue 10: “Mechitza 7.1.”
Tobaron Waxman collaborates with Jesse Zaritt and James Hurley to create a surround sound environment from field recordings Waxman made in domestic spaces in Palestine and Chassidic prayer spaces in New York.
https://t.co/r2axsuUTLU
This Week in Jewish Studies @FordhamNYC: Ben Ratskoff on Du Bois, Fascism, and Racism; on our blog secrets of a sixteenth-century book and its readers. - https://t.co/Oi9o2hoC92
"I kind of spent all my writing life writing about violence, and, when it hit home in this way, I was really unprepared for how much it would affect me."
From Issue 10: Poet Daniel Borzutzky in conversation with @toafallenelm
https://t.co/H2VbH4cIBS
"Humming is a tool used by trauma survivors for self-soothing, both for the hummer and the listener.”
From Issue 10: “After Halle,” a sound installation by @talyafeldman
https://t.co/w0WKjjZpFi
Could easily add Turkey now to the list of autocracies Chabad is cozy with, as evidenced by the recent trip of chabad-organized rabbis to Erdogan's palace. This paragraph really sums up the problem as it exists in eastern europe. @prtcls_
https://t.co/JNracHtmAo
"Hagiz’s narrative thus imagines the discovery of the Western Wall and the establishment of the Haram al-Sharif as simultaneous...as two parts of the same contemporary sacred space."
From Issue 10: Avi-ram Tzoreff's "A Wondrous Thing to See"
https://t.co/5O7zFVuepF
"When a temple of spiritual or secular power is hidden or demolished, the future becomes unpredictable. To reproduce them, is to shove a cork back into the bottle of time."
From Issue 10: "Making and Unmaking City Centers" by @zchwhtwrth
https://t.co/76OMBy9fBA
@LuceCaroline doing the lords work, thinking abt the process of Jewish Am heritage/preservation/archives as active and implicated in racialized urban dispossession (gentrification)
I agree! @LuceCaroline has connected the uses to which traces of Jewish life and culture are put in E. Europe and E. Los Angeles. The commonalities she finds are striking.
“Doing the work of public history…might implicate all of us in processes of real estate development, displacement, and erasure — regardless of our intentions.”
From Issue 10: @LuceCaroline’s “Searching for Temples”
https://t.co/xivVElCdpA
🚨 COMING SOON… 🚨
ISSUE 10: TEMPLE
feat. writing/art from Avi-ram Tzoreff, @miryammuhammad, @emilydrewu, Tobaron Waxman & Jesse Zaritt, @ceartworld, @LuceCaroline, @talyafeldman, and more ‼️
(Image: Detail of sound and movement score, in Waxman and Zaritt’s “Mechitza 7.1”)