Jüdische Woche, Dresden
The Culture of the Arab-Jews : Lyrik ohne Grenzen, 1.11.2019
Donau115, Berlin
Asylum: Words & Sounds, 26.8.2019
Israeli Book Club, B’nai Jeshurun Synagogue, Manhattan, NYC
A talk about “Moving on from Bliss”, 1.6.2019
Weak Resistance 2
Precarity, Diasporas, Movements Lecture, ICI – Berlin, 8.7.2016
Booklet Party: Reißt die Mauern ein zwischen 'uns' und 'ihnen'
Berlin, Lettrétage, 11.12.2018 1.6.2019
European Association for Israeli Studies [EAIS], University of Cagliari, Sardinia:
Israelis in the diaspora (September 2015)
Anu אנו نحن: Jews and Arabs Writing in Berlin – Litarary Encounter
Literarisches Colloquium Berlin, 25.10.2018
Association for Israeli Studies (AIS), Ben-Gurion University:
Leadership in ./Distress – Zionism and the emigration anxiety (June 2014)
Queer Tangentially Workshop, London School of Economics:
Queer temporalities and the Zionist temporal regime (May 2014)
השקת הספר – אוניברסיטת תל אביב
20.12.2018
2nd Annual International Feminist Journal of Politics Conference, University of Sussex:
Queer Activism in Israel-Palestine (May 2013)
ערב השקה – "אישה לאישה" מרכז נשים פמיניסטי, חיפה
18.8.2018
Queer History conference, Queen Mary University, London:
When there is No Past and the Future is Unseen – Palestinian Lesbian Activism (November 2012)
Queer Israelis in Berlin. Belonging, Resistance, and the Politics of Emigration
Lecture, ICI-Berlin, 27.9.2018
'Mind the Gap': Queer studies and activism conference, Hebrew University, Jerusalem:
Queer theory and temporality – Contemporary activism among Palestinian lesbians (June 2012)
The Ontology of the Couple
Symposium, ICI- Berlin 9 -10 Jun 2016
'A different Sex': Israel's annual queer studies conference, Tel-Aviv University:
Free Radicals: Lesbians, Motherhood and Choice (June 2012)
Diaspora and its Others
Narratives, Nomads, and Impossibilities Conference, ICI Berlin 26 -27 Mar 2015
Israeli Belongings
Workshop, SOAS, University of London: (May 2015) Jointly organized with Dr. Sonia Zafer-Smith.
The 8th European Feminist Research Conference, Central European University, Budapest:
Non-Natalism in the Palestinian Community in Israel: Lesbians, Motherhood and Choice (May 2012)
The 10th Annual Palestinian Conference, SOAS, University of London:
Israel’s problematic relationship with the Jewish-Israeli Diaspora (October 2015)
Vigorously written, with a delicate and precise hand and a rare combination of wit and compassion.
The main strength of the book is the ability to undermine stigmas and prejudices and to undo the process of marking people as “the other.” Amit writes differently about “different” people … Amit’s prose is endowed with restraint, quietness, empathy, much delicacy and a minimalist style … The last story in the book is the loveliest, most complete and most melancholic in the collection … Moving on from Bliss is characterized by a unique and beautiful voice … by the courage to write political-social literature without compromise or fawning, by a humanistic methodology.
The trials faced by the characters are serious, and gradually become more serious as the book unfolds. At times, good literature is literature that focuses on critical decisions … It’s been years since I read a book that has a title that is so intriguing, so different … For Hila Amit, to move on from bliss means emptiness and loss. But, for her moving on from bliss also means nobility
In order to explain the satisfaction this short book elicits; the pleasantly tearful throbs that occur at a frequency of once or twice during almost all of the stories that it contains; the response of a number of characters on the brink of despair and grief to Hila Amit’s firm but not aggressive treatment – in order to explain all of these, one must go back to the misleading first impression given by the encounter with her first book Moving on from Bliss ... Unlike the masochistic, traumatized approach that has gradually become the trademark of Israeli literature … Amit finds different ways, some of them simple and very effective, to rein in tragedy and the cheap handling of heartache … Nothing here is bombastic or self-satisfied. The characters themselves control the situations, playing gently with the permissible and the forbidden … An empathetic, measured connection is created between the reader and the stories
It’s been ages since I read such a good and promising first book … Like in real literature, the stylistic implement is suited to the author’s goals … I do not have words of my own to describe the delicacy, and the richness, and the beauty.
It’s been ages since I read such a good and promising first book … Like in real literature, the stylistic implement is suited to the author’s goals … I do not have words of my own to describe the delicacy, and the richness, and the beauty.
A lovely collection … Gentle, sensitive prose about life.
גיבורי הספר הזה הם מי שההגמוניה הישראלית סימנה כ"אחר", ויופיו טמון בכך שהוא לא מניף דגלים, אלא חותר תחת הדעות הקדומות בכוחה של האנושיות
קובץ הסיפורים של הילה עמית הוא מצרך נדיר בספרות העברית.
בספרה הראשון ברור שהסופרת הילה עמית לא מעוניינת לערפל. היא לא מעוניינת להכות מסביב לצמח. היא הולכת בעברית הישירה ביותר אל לב הצמח, אל לב ההחלטה. והחלטות הן בדיוק הדבר המרכזי בספר הנהדר הזה.
ספרים מומלצים שיעבירו לך את הקיץ לאט ובטוח.