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Maia Evrona

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Poet, prose writer, translator of #Yiddish poetry, tanguera, Leonard Cohen enthusiast. #NEAarts fellow "From a Bird's Cage to a Thin Branch; The Selected Poems of Yosef Kerler" out now from White Goat Press www.maiaevrona.com

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Maia Evrona @maiaevrona.bsky.social · Jul 31

My small contribution to writing on Ukraine, published thanks to the @forward.com At the end you can also read my translation of Dovid Hofshteyn’s poem “Ukraine”

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Ukraine in the words of a murdered Yiddish poet

In June, a book festival in Kyiv featured a discussion titled “Yiddish as a Ukrainian Language”

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall

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Maia Evrona @maiaevrona.bsky.social · 1d

Susan Abulhawa has also called Zelenskyy a "Nazi promoting zionist" and "far more dangerous than Putin." I always cringe when I see people share anything from her. I find it especially frustrating when I see people characterize any criticism of her as anti-Palestinian censorship.

Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 13d

This is not a random person, but the writer of "Mornings in Jenin," the most widely-read Palestinian novel of all time.

This person is opining on Jewish history without knowing anything about it. None of this is true about the concept of Jewish peoplehood.

Post from Susan Abulhawa: "Historically speaking, there was never such a thing called "The Jewish People" before zionism.

There were Jews--Egyptian Jews, European Jews, Yemeni Jews, etc.

The fairytale they sell now to the world was manufactured in the 19th century. Most Jews didn't buy it at first; so zionists set up schools (literal schools!) to indoctrinate them into believing that colonizing Palestine had been their lifelong dream.

Initially, the only Jews they could get to move from their home countries to Palestine were poor and disenfranchised Eastern European jews. It was easier to lure them with promises of "milk and honey," riches and land of their own.

Others were more difficult to dislodge from their homelands. Zionists had to bomb synagogues in Iraq, for example, to make Iraqi Jews--a prosperous indigenous community in Iraq--to leave, believing their fellow Muslims and Christians had bombed them.

They didn't really want Arab Jews. For example, they kidnapped the babies of Yemeni Jews and gave them to European Jews to raise them in the preferred jewish supremacist strand. Ethiopian Jewish women were involuntarily given birth control to curtail the Black jewish birthrate.

The only thing Israelis have in common is their hatred and jealousy of the Palestinians--the actual indigenous people of the land--and their delusions of grandeur, premised on a fairytale of common heritage."

Maia Evrona @maiaevrona.bsky.social · 4d

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Me preguntas por qué critico la flotilla

Me preguntas por qué critico la flotilla. Reconoces que no cambiarán nada, pero insistes en que no hacen ningún mal. Me sugieres que si no me gusta mire hacia otro lado. Te cuento:

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פינחס יוסף מונד @pymundgenealogy.com · 6d

This quote is very obviously fake, has been going around for months, and now is being touted as real with MEMO's approval.

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Maia Evrona @maiaevrona.bsky.social · 8d

It's hard not to wonder how much money went into the Sumud Flotilla, which had no chance whatsoever of success, money which could have gone to organizations like @wck.org, who are actually on the ground successfully making 200,000 meals a day for Gazans.

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World Central Kitchen

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Maia Evrona @maiaevrona.bsky.social · 8d

How heartbreaking/bittersweet for the placebo participants though...

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 9d

Dani Miran, father of hostage Omri Miran, bottom left… who said recently “The thought that as a result of the entry into Gaza and the bombings in Gaza you might return in a coffin or a black bag is what keeps me awake at night. Forgive me, son."💔

Voice4Justice @voices4justice.bsky.social · 9d

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Maia Evrona @maiaevrona.bsky.social · 10d

And another Kol Nidrei poem, published in the Spring 2019 issue of @northamerreview.bsky.social (unfortunately I can’t find a copy of the issue, so here it is copied from my website)

Maia Evrona @maiaevrona.bsky.social · 10d

My Days of Awe and Kol Nidrei poems, published by the @jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social

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Days of Awe

They begin in sweetness and end in hunger in the twilight between one year and another. Our tradition always begins with the evening,

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Maia Evrona @maiaevrona.bsky.social · 10d

www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

US comedians defend decision to play in Saudi Arabia: ‘They’re paying me enough to look the other way’

Usual supporters of free speech are under fire for signing on to Riyadh comedy festival despite the government’s human rights abuses

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Maia Evrona @maiaevrona.bsky.social · 13d

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

As my daughter got sicker and sicker, our quest for answers dragged on. How did we all miss the bacteria taking over her body?

I write about nature, but when Milly got sick with a mystery illness, it never occurred to me that a long-forgotten tick bite could be the cause

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Bill Wolkoff @billwearsties.bsky.social · 13d

Indie director Barbara Marques has been kidnapped by ICE. She is legally married to a U.S. citizen & was at a green card mtg when she was abducted and prevented from seeing her lawyer. Her husband Tucker May does not know where she is. Please spread the word so he can find her /1

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Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · Oct 1

'Repent now, and avoid the Yom Kippur rush!'
Jewish Museum of London.

Cartoon depicting a bearded man marching with a large placard on which are the words “Repent now; avoid the Yom Kippur rush.”

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Maia Evrona @maiaevrona.bsky.social · 16d

Finally posting some updates on my website. I have updates! I just haven't been posting them...

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Residency in Sweden, newish article/translation in the Forward, reading available on Youtube — Maia Evrona

In November, I will be the poet/translator-in-residence at the Frölunda Library and Kulturhus in Gothenburg, Sweden, under the auspices of the AIR Litteratur residency program. Sweden is the only coun...

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 17d

a new mRNA therapy apparently can cut the rate of Huntington's disease progression by ~75%. yet more miracle shit www.bbc.com/news/article...

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time

One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 18d

Seems bad for our society when you can’t make racist terrorists the villains

Vulture @vulture.com · 18d

Apple has pulled The Savant, its series starring Jessica Chastain’s about hunting down white supremacist cells across America, from its immediate release schedule.

Apple Pulls The Savant From Its Release Schedule

Apple has pulled The Savant, its series starring Jessica Chastain’s about hunting down white supremacist cells across America, from its immediate release schedule.

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Maia Evrona @maiaevrona.bsky.social · 18d

My Rosh Hashanah poem, first published in the Jewish Women’s Archive:

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Maia Evrona @maiaevrona.bsky.social · 20d

I'm not crazy about Kamala Harris dishing on other prominent democrats (who we may need to win in 2028) but do think the bit about Gavin Newsom responding to her call telling him she was running, with a text saying "Out hiking will call later" and then not calling, was pretty funny...

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 26d

every Jewish Studies colleague I know who had an NEH grant saw their funding cut earlier this year. now we know where the money went: to the far-right, "western-civilization"-worshipping Tikvah Institute to promote their vision of "Jewish Civilization" as a foundation stone of "the West"

NEH Announces Largest Grant in Agency’s History—$10.4 Million—for Humanities-Focused Effort to Combat the Normalization of Anti-Semitism in American Society by Focusing on the Study of Jewish Civiliza...

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 26d

I've seen a lot of people on here in the past day or so repeat the line of "Arabs are Semites, too, so anti-Arab racism is also a form of antisemitism." This is and understandable mistake, given how weird the word is, but it's a misunderstanding of the word.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 27d

“It will take decades to recover from this, if we ever do.” America’s cancer research system, which has helped save millions of lives and is in one of its most productive moments, is under threat by the Trump administration.

Trump Is Shutting Down the War On Cancer

America’s cancer research system, which has helped save millions of lives, is under threat in one of its most productive moments.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 27d

What a bizarre spectacle it is to watch Democratic politicians and prominent opinionists on the center/center-left attempt to valorize Charlie Kirk.

It is not just utterly detached from the reality of who Kirk was/what he did – it also misunderstands why political violence is bad.

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 27d

Sunday reading: The Right Wants a Reichstag Fire

I wrote about the murder of Charlie Kirk, political violence in the United States, and the Trumpists’ desire to find a pretext for purges and mass arrests.

This week’s piece:

The Right Wants a Reichstag Fire

The military patrolling in the streets, an assassination, and a movement longing for escalation. America is teetering on the brink

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Maia Evrona @maiaevrona.bsky.social · 29d

I read this with Weleda Skin Food literally sinking into my skin...

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Weleda allegedly supplied cream used on prisoners in Dachau by SS doctor

Study claims Swiss firm provided Nazi concentration camp with anti-frostbite product used in tests in early 1940s

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Maia Evrona @maiaevrona.bsky.social · Sep 5

It’s demoralizing how every five to ten years society finds a new “it girl” to tear down, even as we bemoan the way Britney Spears/Lindsay Lohan/etc once were treated.

Maia Evrona @maiaevrona.bsky.social · Sep 5

I’ve been interested in visiting for a long for a long time (and also because it just so happens that my father’s mother was Swedish). I’ll be giving at least one poetry reading in Gothenburg on the 25th of November, as well as one in Stockholm, date TBA!

www.vgregion.se/f/kulturforv...

Platser och stipendiater – AIR Litteratur 2025 - Kulturförvaltningen

AIR Litteratur Västra Götaland ger författare och översättare från hela världen plats och tid till konstnärlig utveckling genom att erbjuda residensvistelser...