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On December 10, 1948, at the United Nations General Assembly, Eleanor Roosevelt was the first to proclaim to the world the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. On Human Rights Day sixty-six years later, Bill Hass, United Nations veteran and president of United Nations Association of Southwestern Connecticut, talks about the status of human rights among the UN’s […]
Growing Up Jewish in Lahore — And in an Internment Camp COURTESY OF HAZEL KAHAN Not Your Typical German Anti-Nazis: From left, Hazel Kahan, her mother Kate, and her brother Michael, in Lahore, Pakistan, in 1948. By Gabe Friedman Published October 18, 2014, issue of October 24, 2014. Full article: http://forward.com/articles/207415/when-jews-found-refuge-in-pakistan/?p=all#ixzz3IrfmUhjW
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“The end of the world as we know it is not the end of the world full stop,” says Dougald Hine, speaking from Sweden via Skype. Dougald, named by The Guardian as one of Britain’s fifty new radicals, is best known for Dark Mountain, an emerging cultural movement he co-founded with Paul Kingsnorth five years ago. Dark Mountain […]
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Links to North Fork Works programs 2012 and 2013 and to Southold Historical Society to learn about the North Fork’s past and present. Alex Villani, long-time fisherman and Stephanie Villani, fishmonger, proprietors of Blue Moon Fish describe their lives working their Mattituck-based family business. (November 5, 2014) https://ia600700.us.archive.org/2/items/AlKrupskiNorthForkWorks030514/Al%20Krupski-%20NorthForkWorks-03-05-14.mp3 Barbara Shinn, of Shinn Estate Vineyards in Mattituck, explains […]
The Other Pakistan by VIOLET SNOW on Aug 25, 2014 • 4:00 pmNo Comments Dr. Kate and Dr. Hermann Selzer in Rome, 1935 Hazel Kahan was born in Lahore, Pakistan, the daughter of two Jewish physicians who fled Europe in 1937 to escape burgeoning anti-Semitism. Forty years after leaving the city of her youth, Kahan felt compelled to return to […]
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Sister Margaret Smyth, talks about how she became a nun, started and built the North Fork Spanish Apostolate in Riverhead and Greenport. She gives us an intimate and current look at the many challenges–and triumphs in the Hispanic community, including reuniting the unaccompanied children from Central America with their mothers on the East End of […]
Yet why not say what happened? Here’s everything I have to say about leafages since I made the first one in the year 2000. It was published by the wonderful Storyacious magazine.
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Clare Wigfall, Berlin-based British author of the novel The Loudest Sound and Nothing, and I continue the conversation, begun with Storyacious editor Jenny Bhatt, about handwritten letters, how email can never take their place and how difficult it is, in these times, for letter writing to retain its once important place in our lives. The conversation […]
I will be writing about this project in detail once it’s completed.
Seems I can’t get passports out of my mind. Same with writing letters, the subject of an upcoming two-part Tidings radio program (March 12 and April 16). My travel essay, “Passing through Ports” has just been published by storyacious.com, a new literary magazine out of California. Salut to high quality writing, long form and all!
Born to German Jewish refugee physicians in Lahore (now Pakistan, then British India) Hazel has lived, studied and worked in many places–India, England, Australia, Israel and the United States. She makes her home in the woods of the eastern end of Long Island, New York where she produces the art of leafages, the radio sounds of Tidings and writes about growing up Jewish in Lahore. Read more about Hazel…
Leafages by Hazel Kahan are made from real leaves, vines and tendrils interwoven with calligraphy, decorative pen and ink flourishes and imaginary Latin botanical names. Leafages contain a philosophical or inspirational thought, quotation or verse from sages, poets or religious texts. Some leafages are specially created for an individual, a couple or a family with words or leaves reflecting their personal narrative. They are available on the Leafages shop on Etsy although the supply is low right now, all my energies having been absorbed by the book I’ve been writing. Do come back soon when the shop will be full of new leafage abundance or contact me.
