Can Jewish/Israeli Grief Be Heard?
Hosted By: My Jewish Learning, Kveller
Since October 7th, much of the artistic and academic world has not wanted to hear about Jewish/Israeli grief. Through his poetry and experience as a Columbia professor, Owen Lewis puts grief front and center, offering his perspective on the political climate of today while promoting listening to the grief in ourselves and of those in disagreement. Lewis’s poetry and experience have helped him navigate new and rampant antisemitism, and he offers not only the comfort of poetry in a changed world, but an understanding of how the hard work of peace and reconciliation can be achieved on an interpersonal and international level.
Professor Lewis will join us on Tuesday, June 10, in conversation with Andrew Silow-Carroll, editor at large of the New York Jewish Week.
Owen Lewis is the author of four collections of poetry and three chapbooks. Honors include the 2024 E.E.Cummings Prize, the 2023 Guernsey International Poetry Prize, the 2023 Rumi Prize for Poetry, the International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine, and the Jean Pedrick Chapbook Award. At Columbia University he is Professor of Psychiatry in the Department of Medical Humanities and Ethics and teaches Narrative Medicine.
This event is the next in a series of events geared toward helping you build resilience and connection in this moment, brought to you by My Jewish Learning and Kveller, with the support of UJA-Federation of New York.
