(22) Modern Women’s Midrashim in the Wake of October 7 (Part 2)

Voices of Women at Wartime

In this episode we continue to study modern midrashim written by women in the wake of October 7 with Tamar Biala, editor of the "Dirshuni" series.

Tamar Biala has been collecting and editing modern women’s midrashim for over 20 years and published them as part of the “Dirshuni” series, with two volumes in Hebrew and one in English. The first Hebrew volume was co-edited with Nehama Weingarten-Mintz.

Since October 7, Biala has received many texts relating to the Hamas attack and its aftermath. In this two-part session we will study these powerful texts written by women about grieving mothers and angry grandmothers, faith and doubt, the Jewish present and past and how they interact with one another.

To learn more about women's midrashim and Dirshuni, listen to this 2002 interview with Tamar Biala:

https://newbooksnetwork.com/dirshuni

Texts discussed in part 2:

1. All Your Brothers’ and Sisters’ Bloods are Crying to Me from the Soil Gili Mivtzari Zivan https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aNGyHlWLSoPh-tIzkJfnit4iaG4sEcdYpAvO1sNDzzA/edit?usp=sharing
2. Redeeming Captive Women Oshrat Shoham https://docs.google.com/document/d/1130ptM6jQPTRuUT47bGrWLcOJD-70A00nWiuGifleXM/edit?usp=sharing
3. Sleeps and Slumbers, The Guardian of Israel Rivkah Lubitch https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Wr5hn_P0zmtrByKMZq4LOC7lwZzCe5uVGthg4AFl-LQ/edit?usp=sharing
4. Midrash One People to Another Rabbi Yael Vurgan https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NmgwsUUv8mC33mawGrM_rhH8d8jcLNDg8outpF_TjCg/edit?usp=sharing

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