Conversation

Poet and activist Mohammed El-Kurd discusses his debut collection, the vexed meanings of visibility, and the long history of Palestinian freedom struggles.

Three writers and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors, including Plunder author Menachem Kaiser, discuss the conventions of the “3G memoir” and the commodification of Holocaust stories.

The Jewish Currents editorial staff takes on “Jewish continuity.”

Pierre Joris, who has been translating Paul Celan into English for more than 50 years, discusses a life lived with the poet’s work.

A new group calling itself “Jewish-Israeli Dissent” is challenging the German left’s unbridled support for Israeli government policies.

Fayrouz Sharqawi, director of the Jerusalem-based organization Grassroots Al-Quds, discusses emerging forms of mobilization across Palestine.

Jehad al-Saftawi’s photographs in My Gaza make up an intimate archive of daily life amid destruction.

Intellectual historian Peter E. Gordon discusses the role of theology and secularization in the work of the Frankfurt School philosophers.

Organizer and educator Mariame Kaba discusses transformative justice, refusing a politics of revenge, and her new book, We Do This ‘Til We Free Us.

Composer Ethan Philbrick and novelist Torrey Peters discuss what it means to make art and community after a marriage ends.

Performer Sharon Mashihi discusses using autofiction to arrive at the truth of the first-generation experience in her new audio series, Appearances.

The Jewish Currents editorial staff discusses what the Capitol putsch means for the right and the left.

A conversation with Palestinian German director Lexi Alexander about Wonder Woman’s promotion of Arab stereotypes, her experiences of racism behind the camera, and the stakes of accurately portraying marginalized communities on screen.

Scholar Nicole R. Fleetwood discusses how incarcerated artists navigate the constraints of the prison’s built environment.

On the eve of the Biden administration, after the manifest failure of Oslo, four Palestinian thinkers ask: Where do we go from here?

Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial of the Chicago 7 includes glimpses of the real, drained of ideological significance.

Journalist Talia Lavin discusses the imperative—and the dangers—of covering the far right.

A conversation with scholar Devin E. Naar about what meaningful Sephardic representation might look like in the wake of near-total erasure.

Playwright David Adjmi discusses his estrangement from the Syrian Jewish community, his ambivalence about identity politics, and his new memoir Lot Six.

On the 30th anniversary of her groundbreaking book Standing Again at Sinai, feminist theologian Judith Plaskow discusses the choice to remain within a patriarchal religious framework.

Vincent Bevins, author of The Jakarta Method, discusses the legacy of US intervention in Indonesia and Brazil.

Historian Beshara Doumani, who holds the first endowed faculty chair in Palestinian studies at an American university, discusses his work and the shifting campus climate on Palestine.

Organizers of the Not Free to Desist campaign discuss their efforts to push Jewish institutions to embrace anti-racism.

The new millennial editor of The Detroit Jewish News discusses his plans to revitalize the paper for a new era.