Mary, I reread your essay. Again your beautiful prose humbles me and teaches my lessons. I attended Molly Jong-Fast's conversation with NPR's Peter Segal for her book tour when she came to Evanston. I have always thought like her that this wicked regime has weaponized anti-Semitism to achieve its vicious ends while harming and working to destroy the Jewish, Muslim, and immigrant communities.
I never felt I had the ethos and credibility to comment on your post when it originally ran and about survivorship because I am a gentile and Catholic. Outside of my health and disability, I have never felt the full threat to my existence based on my ethnic and religious identity as the Jewish community has for centuries.
The only time I felt the pangs of a survivorship of a different kind was after my good friend was killed by a hit-and-run driver in 2008. Murph/Mike was such a good person ans taken too soon. I couldn't understand why he was taken so soon and I, someone who is not, was left alive. I read Job and Ecclesiates months after he died. I've been reading them again after the demon's reelection.
Wiesel is one of my favorite writers, activists and thinkers. He is so needed now. Sadly when he was alive, his prophetic words did not get through to enough people worldwide. Have you seen Mandy Patinkin's and Miriyam Margolyes recent videos calling our Netanyahu and the Gaza genocide? Stripped my heart. Available DuVernay shared the video of Patinkin on her Notes page last night. His last words left me with no words.
Mary, I reread your essay. Again your beautiful prose humbles me and teaches my lessons. I attended Molly Jong-Fast's conversation with NPR's Peter Segal for her book tour when she came to Evanston. I have always thought like her that this wicked regime has weaponized anti-Semitism to achieve its vicious ends while harming and working to destroy the Jewish, Muslim, and immigrant communities.
I never felt I had the ethos and credibility to comment on your post when it originally ran and about survivorship because I am a gentile and Catholic. Outside of my health and disability, I have never felt the full threat to my existence based on my ethnic and religious identity as the Jewish community has for centuries.
The only time I felt the pangs of a survivorship of a different kind was after my good friend was killed by a hit-and-run driver in 2008. Murph/Mike was such a good person ans taken too soon. I couldn't understand why he was taken so soon and I, someone who is not, was left alive. I read Job and Ecclesiates months after he died. I've been reading them again after the demon's reelection.
Wiesel is one of my favorite writers, activists and thinkers. He is so needed now. Sadly when he was alive, his prophetic words did not get through to enough people worldwide. Have you seen Mandy Patinkin's and Miriyam Margolyes recent videos calling our Netanyahu and the Gaza genocide? Stripped my heart. Available DuVernay shared the video of Patinkin on her Notes page last night. His last words left me with no words.
Beautifully done. I will write about the novels again--and particularly NIGHT when I revisit this post that deals with "The Survivor Dilemma": https://innerlifecollaborative.substack.com/p/the-survivor-dilemma
Would love your thoughts, Laura.
That means a lot. Mary.