![]() A poet, memoirist, and essayist, she long worked at the intersection of gender identity, religious tradition, and literature. Joy Ladin holds the Gottesman Chair in English at Yeshiva University. This genre-defying book combines prose diary entries that offer intimate glimpses of Anna’s present – her writing process, relationships with neighbors, obsessive sexual behavior, chain-smoking, and idiosyncratic exploration of Jewish tradition – with autobiographical poems, each made out of bits of a different sacred Jewish text, that recount her unsparing efforts to reckon with horror, survival, and their aftermath. The Book of Anna is written in the voice of a fictional character, Anna Asher, daughter of a briefly famous pianist who spent her adolescence in a concentration camp and is writing in 1950’s Prague, where she works as a receptionist for the secret police. ![]() Joy Ladin for a look at her extensive body of work, particularly The Book of Anna. You can read more about the Baltimore Festival of Jewish Literature here. ![]() You can read more about EOAGH, the publishers of The Book of Anna here.You can listen to the conversation series “Containing Multitudes” here. ![]() ![]()
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