{"id":1416,"date":"2026-06-26T05:12:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T05:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?p=1416"},"modified":"2026-06-26T05:12:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T05:12:24","slug":"melbourne-jewish-book-week-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?p=1416","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne Jewish Book Week 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When festival director Debbie Lee asked me if I would moderate a session titled Death, Grief, and Finding the Light for this year&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/mjbw.com.au\/\">Melbourne Jewish Book Week<\/a> with extraordinary authors Joanne Fedler, Katia Ariel, and Andrea Goldsmith, I was delighted. These authors have written some of my favourite books &#8211; all exquisite, and all people I&#8217;ve had the pleasure of being in contact with over the past year. \u00a0This is going to be such a powerful, nourishing session and if you&#8217;re able to attend, please come and join us. \u00a0Festival passes are on sale now, and I&#8217;ll update with individual session links when they become available.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"fqvYjCmbuW\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/mjbw.com.au\/event\/death-grief-and-finding-the-light\/\">Death, Grief and Finding the Light<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cDeath, Grief and Finding the Light\u201d \u2014 Melbourne Jewish Book Week\" src=\"https:\/\/mjbw.com.au\/event\/death-grief-and-finding-the-light\/embed\/#?secret=gwYibKDuOw#?secret=fqvYjCmbuW\" data-secret=\"fqvYjCmbuW\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When festival director Debbie Lee asked me if I would moderate a session titled Death, Grief, and Finding the Light for this year&#8217;s Melbourne Jewish Book Week with extraordinary authors Joanne Fedler, Katia Ariel, and Andrea Goldsmith, I was delighted. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?p=1416\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[24,49,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-events","category-festivals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1417,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions\/1417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}