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Notes on Nurith Aviv’s Language Trilogy

The New York tribute to Nurith Aviv opens with Translating, the last film of a trilogy that began with From One Language to Another and continued with Sacred Language, Spoken…

On Bruly Bouabré’s Alphabet (2005)

From One Language to the Other was broadcast by one of Arte’s evening shows dedicated to languages together with a 17-minute documentary filmed in Africa, Bruly Bouabré’s Alphabet. This short…

Nurith Aviv on Her Film “Lettre Errante”

Nurith Aviv: filmer la parole. Edited by Claire Buchbinder, Marianne Dautrey, and Nathalie Georges-Lambrichs. Exils Éditeur (2025).  A new book celebrating Nurith Aviv’s films has just been published in France….

A Woman’s Resistance

A new book by Giorgio van Straten, La Ribelle. Storia straordinaria di Nada Parri, Laterza, 2025 (forthcoming in English with Other Press, in 2026) recounts a little-known yet remarkable story…

Haggadot at Bookhouse

This Holiday season at Bookhouse, we are delighted to feature a rich selection of haggadot from different times and geographical provenances selected by Dan Wyman, our partner and leading international…

Sarai e Hagar

And Sarai said to Abram, “Look, יהוה has kept me from bearing. Consort with my maid; perhaps I shall have a child through her.” And Abram heeded Sarai’s request. 

So Sarai, Abram’s wife, took her maid, Hagar the Egyptian—after Abram had dwelt in the land of Canaan ten years—and gave her to her husband Abram as concubine.