Jewish Geography
CULTURE JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY LAUNCHES AN MFA FOR WRITERS by ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL
Jewish institution could give a home to Jews who, since Octo- ber 7, 2023, see the publishing world as increasingly inhospita- ble to Jewish themes and writ- ers. JTS was already well into its accreditation process with the state, she said in an inter- view, when reports of cancelled bookstore appearances, calls for
THE JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, best known for training Conservative rabbis as well as Judaic scholars and communal work- ers, hopes to raise a new kind of crop: Jewish fiction writers. The Manhattan seminary is launching a new Master’s in Fine Arts in Creative Writing, a two-year, low-residency program to be directed by the prize-winning Israeli author Etgar Keret and with a stable of acclaimed Jewish writers. Although she included the idea for an MFA program in her 2022 strategic plan for JTS, Chancellor Shuly Rubin Schwartz said she heard subsequently from some of those authors that an MFA at a
Israeli writer Etgar Keret is the director of the new MFA program in creative writing at the Jewish Theological Seminary.
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