UPCOMING EVENTS AND PAST ENGAGEMENTS

My first year at the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies in LA has come to its close. Looking back, in the vacuum of the pandemic lock-down and quarantine, I ended up doing more creative projects than I realized.

First of all, my chapbook Book of Failed Salvation was accepted for publication by Ben Yehuda Press - (forthcoming in late 2021)

Here's an overview over some teaching/learning and reading events I have been involved in, and things on the horizon:

• Heshbon HaNefesh Poetry Workshop Tisha B'Av Edition: July 19, 6:30pm PDT
• Elul Classes on Forgiveness for Shomrei Torah Synagogue
• Incoming Rabbinic Resident at Temple Beth Am (School year 2021-22)
• Field Placement with Shomrei Torah Synagogue (Fall semester 2021)
• Interim poetry editor for Ben Yehuda Press (Current)

RECENT ENGAGEMENTS 

• Reader at the 101 Jewish Poems for the Third Millennium Anthology Bay Area reading, June 13, 4-6pm PDT
• Panelist: Ruth - A Case Study in Identity and Community, on Clubhouse and sponsored by Opening Doors and 929 English, May 12 at 5pm PDT
• Contributor to Shavuot Learning at Temple Beth Am and Shomrei Torah Synagogue: Return from Ein Gedi: Revelation in the Love Poems of Yehuda Amichai, May 18th
• Conversation with Rabbi Menachem Creditor as part of his virtual book tour for "A Rabbi's Heart", May 20 at 12pm EDT
• Contributor/Presenter: Lag B'Omer in Sao Paulo, a virtual bon-fire gathering hosted by FED New York, April 29, 5pm EDT
• Panelist: Heshbon HaNefesh_A Conversation with Robert Alter about the Poetry of Yehuda Amichai, May 2 at 5pm PDT
• Poetry Reading for the JCC Buffalo, with David Caplan and Charlene Fix
• Poetry Reading for Yom HaShoa Memorial Service (Temple Aliyah / Shomrei Torah Synagogue, San Fernando Valley)
• Curator, Panelist, and Contributor, with Joshua Krug: Heshbon HaNefesh: A Poetic Accounting of a Pandemic Year - Poetry Readings and Reflections on the anniversary of the Coronavirus pandemic
• Panelist: The Holocaust: Whose Story is It? Various conversation rooms with on Clubhouse
• Presentation: A Poetic Look at the Cedars of Lebanon (Shomrei Torah Synagogue, West Hills, CA)
• Presentation/workshop: One Year Later: Narrating and Processing a Pandemic Year through Poetry (Shomrei Torah Synagogue, West Hills, CA)
• Presentation: You Can't Hurry Love: Searching and Finding Love (and God?) in the Song of Songs (FED New York)
• Contributor to FED's Purim Shpiel 2021
• Writer of several Divrei Torah and Omer reflections for Temple Beth Am Los Angeles and Shomrei Torah Synagogue West Hills

BIO

Julia Knobloch is a poet, educator, and rabbi-in-training at the Ziegler School for Rabbinic Studies. Currently a rabbinic resident at Temple Beth Am, Los Angeles, she also teaches classes at the intersection of Jewish liturgy and poetry for Shomrei Torah Synagogue, West Hills. In 2021, she was awarded a Bruce Geller Memorial Prize/AJU Word Grant and facilitates poetry retreats and workshops both in New York and Los Angeles.

In the past, Julia has served as a project manager for UJA-Federation of New York as well as the Union for Reform Judaism and was active many years as a documentary filmmaker for National Geographic, Discovery Channel, and European broadcasters.

She double-majored in Philosophy and Romance Languages with a Magister Artium degree from Heidelberg University, Germany, and has lived in France, Portugal, and Argentina.

The author of two poetry collections (Do Not Return, Broadstone Books, 2019 and Book of Failed Salvation, forthcoming with Ben Yehuda Press), Julia was a 2018 Brooklyn Poets Fellow and is currently working on a series of poems about the desert and forgiveness, inspired by the blessings of the Amidah. Her individual poems have been published online, as well as in print magazines and anthologies.