Rachel Korazim

Rachel is a consultant for Israel and Holocaust education. She engages audiences through innovative presentations built around stories, poems and songs of Israel’s best writers.

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Born in Israel, Rachel is a freelance Jewish education consultant in curriculum development for Israel and Holocaust education. She engages audiences worldwide through innovative presentations built around the stories, poems and songs of Israel’s best writers. Her thought-provoking talks open a window onto Israeli society, inviting listeners to engage with the country and its history in new ways.

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Connections to the Land

The core Zionist narrative of Israel presents an unbroken unwavering connection between the people of Israel and its land. True as it is, individuals have felt at times, doubts, pain and critique as they were articulating their particular attachment to it. We shall look at works by Yitzhak Shalev, Rachel, Nathan Alterman, Yehuda Amichai, Ephraim Kishon, Balfour Hakak and Amos Oz.

The Pain of Two Homelands

This session presents a sensitive yet very real theme in Israeli literature: The fact that even the most ardent Zionist immigrants had difficulties adjusting to the new land. Through prose and poetry of Rachel, Lea Goldberg, Agi, Mishol, Balfour Hakak, Amos Oz and more, we shall read and listen to homesickness to the old country and hope for a better future in Israel.

Dialogues with G-d in Israeli Poetry

Although Israel is often seen as a society divided along the lines of religiosity and secularism, a close look will show how even the most secular of writers are rooted in classical texts and create their own language of secular prayer. This session will examine a variety of expressions of the relationship with G-d, based on secular, biblical, and prayer references in modern Israeli poetry.

Women's Voices

We will be looking at poems of women expressing their nuanced connection to the land of Israel, offering their unique way of reading Torah, creating new individual poetic prayers and speaking out in the political arena.

Israel Diaspora Relations – Changing Narratives

Based on reflections of over a 100 years of Jewish and Zionist history, this session will explore early images of Israel in the eyes of Diaspora Jews as well as images of the Diaspora in Israel. The proximity of the Shoah to the birth of the state of Israel had a lot to do with these images. Israel is well over 60 and ready to explore more mature relations with Jewish communities overseas.

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