This is tomorrow. I continue to be extremely jealous of NYC. 😆

"An upcoming #educational event in #Manhattan aims to grapple with the foundations of #Jewish #history, following renewed interest after the #Hamas-led terrorist attacks on #Oct7, 2023.

The daylong s#ymposium, titled “The Past, Present and Future of #JewishHistory” and hosted by the Center for Jewish History in #NewYorkCity on Nov. 2, will gather 20 leading #historians to examine some of the field’s most pressing questions. The event, organized by the Center’s Jewish Public History Forum, features five sessions exploring fundamental themes, from the significance of #antisemitism in Jewish history to the relationship between #Israeli and #Diaspora narratives."

https://www.jns.org/ny-event-aims-to-pull-back-curtain-on-how-scholars-think-about-jewish-history/

This is tomorrow. I continue to be extremely jealous of NYC. 😆

"An upcoming #educational event in #Manhattan aims to grapple with the foundations of #Jewish #history, following renewed interest after the #Hamas-led terrorist attacks on #Oct7, 2023.

The daylong s#ymposium, titled “The Past, Present and Future of #JewishHistory” and hosted by the Center for Jewish History in #NewYorkCity on Nov. 2, will gather 20 leading #historians to examine some of the field’s most pressing questions. The event, organized by the Center’s Jewish Public History Forum, features five sessions exploring fundamental themes, from the significance of #antisemitism in Jewish history to the relationship between #Israeli and #Diaspora narratives."

https://www.jns.org/ny-event-aims-to-pull-back-curtain-on-how-scholars-think-about-jewish-history/

My good friend Itamar who I work with at the Peretz Centre is giving this talk at UBC on Nov 17th: "Of Bubbies and Bundists: Re-approaching Modern Eastern European Jewish History"

In person, but there's a zoom option too.
https://ces.ubc.ca/events/event/of-bubbies-and-bundists-re-approaching-modern-eastern-european-jewish-history/

#JewishHistory #UBC #Yiddish

My good friend Itamar who I work with at the Peretz Centre is giving this talk at UBC on Nov 17th: "Of Bubbies and Bundists: Re-approaching Modern Eastern European Jewish History"

In person, but there's a zoom option too.
https://ces.ubc.ca/events/event/of-bubbies-and-bundists-re-approaching-modern-eastern-european-jewish-history/

#JewishHistory #UBC #Yiddish

I don't often take inspiration from real world events, preferring to play in my fantasy worlds. But twice I've been inspired by history.

Once for Bound by His Oath, which was originally supposed to be historical fiction set shortly after the Normal conquest of England. I realized quickly I didn't have the spoons or access to do the necessary research and switched the setting to Lost Colony sci-fi. But the three cultures of the world are loosely based on the Norman, Anglo-Saxon, and Norse cultures that all clashed together in the aftermath of the Norman Conquest.

And against, even more loosely, for The Price of Survival, I was inspired by Jewish history in Europe. The expulsions and progroms, the court Jews and conversos, all have (or will have) equivalents in this ongoing story.

#AmWriting#Books#JewishHistory