Detours & Destinations

Maya Tevet Dayan – From A Jewish Home to Wandering Jewess

Episode Summary

In this episode, we sit down with poet Maya Tevet Dayan for a conversation about wandering, belonging, and the search for home. The conversation moves through formative detours, including her mother’s death, a family life lived across continents, and October 7 as a turning point experienced while teaching in the United States. Tevet Dayan speaks about encounters with Jewish communities after October 7, and the questions of exile, home, and responsibility that animate her forthcoming book The Wandering Jewess. She offers thoughtful reflections on identity, displacement, and what it means to imagine a destination in uncertain times.

Episode Notes

In this episode, we sit down with poet Maya Tevet Dayan for a conversation about wandering, belonging, and the search for home. The conversation moves through formative detours, including her mother’s death, a family life lived across continents, and October 7 as a turning point experienced while teaching in the United States. Tevet Dayan speaks about encounters with Jewish communities after October 7, and the questions of exile, home, and responsibility that animate her forthcoming book The Wandering Jewess. She offers thoughtful reflections on identity, displacement, and what it means to imagine a destination in uncertain times.

Learn more about Maya’s work www.mayatevetdayan.com

Join Maya’s 6 Minutes on Friday, a weekly column with an insight or reflection  https://tinyurl.com/yc3zxkc7  

Get Maya’s book  Wherever we float, that’s home

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Maya was recorded at Shemma Studios Tel Aviv  https://www.shemma.co.il/

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