Ein jüdischer Garten

A Garden Full of Words – a Guidebook for an Indeterminate Jewish Identity

There are Japanese gardens and English gardens – but what does a Jewish garden look like? This volume provides the answer: the Jewish garden is a book made up of words, an imaginary landscape of literature, featuring around 150 texts about flowers and trees from various linguistic backgrounds, eras, and cultures of the Jewish diaspora. Here, acacias by Clarice Lispector bloom alongside an onion from the Old Testament, with plums by Albert Londres, corn by Gabriele Tergit, and much more in between. Together, they form a labyrinthine garden of the mind beyond linguistic and national borders – and a guidebook for an indeterminate Jewish identity.