A poetic meditation on language intertwined with personal history, memory and tradition. The poet searches for a place to call home “in between words of many tongues.” A Selection from the book: Maybe just vowels Why risk a glance…
An Interview with Vera Schwarcz, Author of In the Crook of the Rock
Our latest interview is with Vera Schwarcz, author of In the Crook of the Rock: Jewish Refuge in a World Gone Mad — The Chaya Leah Walkin Story. Focusing upon the life of Chaya Walkin—one little girl from a distinguished…
New Poetry Book out: The Physics of Wrinkle Formation
Please check the link here for information on my new poetry collection The Physics of Wrinkle Formation. Here are some poems from the collection: MEIOSIS The sex life of the single cell was your early passion. Electron microscopes made possible…
Check out my new book! Colors of Veracity
In Colors of Veracity, Vera Schwarcz condenses four decades of teaching and scholarship about China to raise fundamental questions about the nature of truth and history. In clear and vivid prose, she addresses contemporary moral dilemmas with a highly personal…
New book finally out! Colors of Veracity: A Quest for Truth in China and Beyond
In Colors of Veracity, Vera Schwarcz condenses four decades of teaching and scholarship about China to raise fundamental questions about the nature of truth and history. In clear and vivid prose, she addresses contemporary moral dilemmas with a highly personal…
Article on AMI
We sit on floor mats in a Japanese tearoom, two middle-aged Jewish ladies, demurely sipping our green tea from little bowls. Though it is winter, we discuss the landscaping of the Japanese garden just outside the wide glass doors –…
Review of Chisel of Remembrance
A Small Still Voice in the Face of a Shattered World Vera Schwarcz. Chisel of Remembrance: Poems. Simsbury, Connecticut. Antrim House. 2009. ix + 76 pages. $16. ISBN 978-0-9817883-2-6 Vera Schwarcz is a historian and poet of Jewish origin, who…
Impressions of China Poetry Reading (Video)
Poetry Reading at the Chinese Institute in remembrance of her years in China.
Vera Schwarcz speaks on Wesleyan Thinks Big 2013 (Video)
Professor Schwarz speaks on “A Jewish Wanderer Listening for the Unsayable in China” at Wesleyan Thinks Big 2013.
《鸣鹤园》：牛棚中埋藏着什么样的悲剧？
《鸣鹤园》：牛棚中埋藏着什么样的悲剧？ 来源: 东方早报(上海) 1860年被英法联军烧毁的鸣鹤园，“文革”中又成为“牛棚”。“被蹂躏的土地如何从创伤中恢复？”我们需要做的是去重建它们与历史的纵向联系。 《鸣鹤园》[美]舒衡哲 著 张宏杰译北京大学出版社 2009年6月第一版