After October 7: A Jewish Currents Reader

Description

This past fall, as we abandoned our planned coverage and focused all our attention on the unprecedented crisis in Israel/Palestine, it quickly became clear to us that our Winter issue would need to break the mold. As many have said, history didnt start on October 7thand we felt that our offering to you in this moment shouldnt either. To that end, After October 7: A Jewish Currents Reader is a book-length anthology featuring a selection of pieces from our archive that foreground the often-obscured context for this continuing catastrophewith exclusive new introductions by the Jewish Currents staffalongside a number of pieces published online in the weeks following October 7th.

In these pages, youll find pieces from the Jewish Currents archive by Noura Erakat and John Reynolds, Yousef Munayyer, Hannah Black, Peter Beinart, and many more, as well as more recent dispatches from the West Bank and Gaza, and reporting, commentary, and poetry from Jewish Currents staff and contributors.

While we do not know what will emerge from this moment, it is clear that any just future will require reckoning with the horrors of the present and all that led us here. We hope that this compilation will be a resource for the years and struggles to come.

(Vol. 77, No. 3)