‘Deeply personal, urgently communal’: Jewish Australian women reflect on life after October 7

By Lynne Michelle Swarts, Senior Academic Tutor, St Andrew's College, and Sessional Academic, Discipline of Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies,, University of Sydney

Ruptured is a timely and powerful anthology that explores the fractured experiences of 36 Jewish women in Australia in the aftermath of the October 7 2023 Hamas attacks and the ensuing war in Gaza. The title is luminous and haunting in its simplicity.

Each voice grapples with the shock-waves of recent events, which – as editors Lee Kofman and Tamar Paluch note – cast a shadow “laced with the unmistakable imprint of intergenerational trauma”.

This book is not just a chronicle of pain and upheaval, but a testament to the strength and resilience each woman demonstrates in…

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