Book Discussion
PROTOCALS: AN ERASURE
by Daniela Naomi Molnar

Thursday, September 3rd @ 7:00pm
Phoenix Bookstore
​Rutland VT

Please join the Rutland Jewish Center for a discussion of Daniela Naomi Molnar's book Protocals: An Erasure, a finalist for the National Jewish Book award. 

An 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 questions of power, history, and language. By redacting words from the original document, the book-length poem breathes space into a text dense with hatred, excavating new meanings and questions. It asks what forms power can take other than oppression and control and how language, weaponized and eroded, can be a tool for healing. And it calls for unity and human connection at a time of polarization and fear.

Accompanying the poem, a lyric essay excavates my 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. 

Protocals: An Erasure is available for purchase at Phoenix Bookstore in Rutland Vermont and online.
For more information please contact the RJC.