Jewish Literary Links - Erika Dreifus Items from the world of Jewish books and writing.

Another week, another set of Jewish literary links on My Machberet. www.erikadreifus.com/2026/04/jewi...

Easter bunny takes a hayride in the courtyard of Schönbrunn Palace. An old wooden wagon decorated with flowering potted plants with a bunny riding along. In the background a haystack with children climbing on it and further back buildings that are part of the palace assembly.

VIENNESE IMPRESSIONS
Bunny's Hayride
Courtyard of Schönbrunn Palace
Hietzing, 13th District
Image © Merisi Vienna
#PalacesAndGardens #travelandtransport
#EastCoastKin #ECK #Photography
#PhotographersOfBlueSky

Yes, British Jews on my X are saying the same thing.

Old man yells at cloud

Twitter people yell at women of their political tribe

I nominate this as a podcast topic if only for the all-star writers. N. Spiegelman is the daughter of Art & F. Mouly (Maus & New Yorker), and a Stuyvesant alumni. Piker is big now as an antizionist podcaster approached by Democrats. And there's Jia.

I'm just curious why do you need to create a new account now and then. Are you blocked or something? And trolling like this help?

On the topic: Someone will hold you responsible for your nationality whatever it is, Canadian or something. And demand no less than you leave to show you're serious.

The white privilege of American Zionists, NME

CHH's Viaia sneakers are gross, according to Thurberta Mingus

Privilege, spring 2026

Balancing "Nope, this is unworkable" with "I'm the best for this job"

Yeah, unlike making a new account periodically just to post a couple of replies. How dismal.

For @thecjn.bsky.social, my review of Matti Friedman's latest book "Out of the Sky" in which he unpacks the myth and reality of Hannah Senesh’s life, asking why she and other young people who had escaped Nazi Europe would return for an ill-fated mission

Review: thecjn.ca/arts-culture...

A fun thing for me on social is Mutual A hates something but B loves it.

Then B retweets that topic and I thought A was being ironic or sarcastic but no it's B.

For some reason I just love seeing glitch and curveball, at least inconsequential ones.

For a very nervous person I sure like chaos.

The Far-Right Paradox Is Orban's defeat good for Hungary's Jews?

Julie Szego on what's next for Hungarian Jews
open.substack.com/pub/szegounp...

In the last two years, mainstream book publishers have barely released any Jewish fiction—and the only Jewish fiction that does make it through tends to be anti-Zionist or hyper-progressive. Meg Keene doesn’t see the trends reversing any time soon. What is the future of Jewish literature?

Just confused Poppy Coburn and Sowerby

'A Dutch American memoir' parody graphic

Unpacking: Food ridicule is real.

But as childhood bad memory or adult discourse, food & dining were/still are overused in identity politics. Including the appropriating & the colonialism things, and at times it's moved from personal reckoning into cynical attempts to attack unrelated people.

Yeah, I’m not an Asian American: View Across the Pacific On Asian American modern fiction

My most successful Substack post so far.
open.substack.com/pub/provmand...

A sad serendipity to read this the same morning as this article in Judith Magazine, about independent bookstores, in Chicago.

These are all the same stories about the same, damaged ecosystem.
judithmagazine.substack.com/p/the-great-...

Oh right, it's my friend Zoë. She's having a great honeymoon right now.

Asked Gemini if the normalization of Indonesia - Israel relations could have happened had 7 Oct been foiled. Said possible, w Israel supporting Indonesian entry into OECD & Saudi established relations first. Both would insist on Palestine.
There would have been backlashes from Muslim & LW protests.

In the US X 2 state solution is a soft liberal position; tweeting that will get people saying you're naive and privileged.

In Indonesian, maybe SE Asian X, the 2SS, which remains the Indonesian gov's policy, is now a zionist position that will get you canceled.

March: Bookstores hate him!

April: Canada hates him!

Well not really. A famous Canadian journalist, once a follower, blocks me here months ago but that's totally not my fault.

The bookstore has recovered my access. They don't have Famesick but they have Susan Abulhawa if I'm interested.

Blocked by a Canadian I never know.

On X.

How horrible I am to be blocked on X? By an account with semi-explicit name?

I wrote about Israel-decentering. thecjn.ca/opinion/shou...

La Trobe Street Melbourne at night

Remembered how I often ate at a Thai place that offered HK entertainment magazines to read and how I enjoyed reading them while being out of real Chinese girls to talk to

And then back to my apartment for all the stuffy Politics homeworks

I think one reason I'm happy to consult AI now for alternative histories, political discussion, personal consultation and amusement, and life improvement is because they can tap into Reddit and Facebook.

Reddit is banned in Indonesia, and had it been opened, the access is too deep & muddy.

Fun fact: the last Queen of Tahiti before French colonization had a Jewish father!

This week in history in 1877, Joanna Marau Ta‘aroa and Prince Ari‘i-aue of Tahiti ascended the throne as King and Queen of Tahiti. She served from 1877 to 1880.

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I'd been wondering if anyone would respond (in essay form) to that recent RoL piece....

Yeah, I’m not an Asian American: View Across the Pacific On Asian American modern fiction

It's said that Asian American male lit is incel (the pessimism of finding love) while the female one is micro aggression romance. I look into the contemporary history from my experiences across the Pacific.
open.substack.com/pub/provmand...

Susan Blumberg-Kason reads Jeffrey Wasserstrom’s 𝐸𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑊𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝐾𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝐴𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑎 as suitable for both the novice & the expert:"Chinese politics is one such subject that can give one pause.It is common knowledge that the three Ts […] are especially sensitive."
chajournal.com/2026/04/20/a...

Gal Gadot in long skirt" "It's giving Mom from Lawrence at her son's aufruf"

Is Gal Gadot a secret FemChaos subscriber?