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Reading: Daniela Naomi Molnar with Rabbi Josh Rose
About PROTOCOLS: An Erasure:
An urgent, poetic exploration of power, memory, belief, and the dangers and possibilities of language. PROTOCOLS: An Erasure transforms the world's most influential antisemitic document, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, into an erasure poem exploring essential questions of power, history, and language. By redacting words from the original document, Molnar created a book-length poem that breathes space and light into a text dense with hatred. She patiently uncovers the questions buried within the source text: What is the true nature of power, and how is it tied to a fear of the unknown? How can language, weaponized and eroded, also be a tool for healing? And how can silence help us reckon with history and shape the future? Accompanying the poem, a lyric essay excavates the poet's deep personal connection to the source text, weaving personal and collective history by traversing former concentration camps, immigrant communities in New York City, and remote desert wildernesses, and posing new possibilities for a less deterministic, more spacious and peaceful world.
Daniela Naomi Molnar is a poet, artist, and writer who works with color, water, language, and place. Her most recent book of poetry, Chorus, was selected by Kazim Ali as the winner of the Omnidawn 1st/2nd Book Prize and won the 2024 Oregon Book Award. Her second book, PROTOCOLS: An Erasure, is published by Ayin Press (June 24, 2025).
Rabbi Josh Rose is Founder/Director of Co/Lab: Reimagine Jewish, an organization that opens doors to open-ended engagement with Jewish culture through art and ideas. He connects with audiences with his unique approach to teaching, which makes ancient texts come alive, and through his podcast, The Genesis. He holds a Master of Hebrew Letters from Hebrew Union College and a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard. He lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife and three children.
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