Unnameable Books, 615 Vanderbilt Avenue
This event will bring together three Brooklyn-based Jewish writers in conversation with visiting artist/poet Sara Camhaji from Mexico City. Their readings will explore transnational Jewish poetics, weaving together geographic, political, and cultural influences and identities.
Books by the authors will be available to purchase at the event!
Sara Camhaji is a literary artist. Her work is the result of many existential understandings that she -as all of us- continuously face. She writes to visualize. She visualizes to narrate. She is a mother and a wife–these aspects are always present in her creative works. She teaches and gets constantly involved in cultural projects. Her latest books are Maleza (Alboroto Ediciones, 2022) and Don’t take photos of the landscape; take portraits with the view of the background if you want (Elefanta Editorial, 2023), both in Spanish and English. Sara lives in Mexico City.
Hadar Ahuvia is a dance artist and educator drawing on the multidisciplinary lineages of postmodern dance and Ashkenazi Jewish diaspora. She creates performances, workshops, and rituals that forefront the role of the body in political, social and spiritual action. Raised as a secular Zionist in Palestine/Israel and Turtle Island/US, Ahuvia has come to study traditional prayer texts and melodies and practice as a way of healing intergenerational ruptures. Her essay “Joy Vey” on choreographing a diasporic Jewish identity beyond Zionism is featured in the Oxford Handbook of Jewishness and Dance.
Tom Haviv is the cofounder and creative director of Ayin Press. His debut book of poetry, Flag of No Nation, was published in 2019 by Jewish Currents Press, and is the author of two children’s books, Woven (Somewhere, 2018) & The Porcupine Prince (Somewhere, 2023). He is also the creator of Hamsa Flag Project.
Nat Sufrin’s poems appear in Bennington Review, Fence, and Best American Experimental Writing. He received a New Jewish Culture Fellowship and a Research and Travel Grant from Asylum Arts. He is a postdoctoral psychologist in private practice in New York City.
