Julia Knobloch

Rabbi at Temple Beth El in San Pedro, CA

Birth Year: b. 1973
Current City: Los Angeles, California, USA
Birth City: Mainz, Germany
Genre(s): Poetry, Nonfiction, Translation, Literary Criticism

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Photo credit: Photo credit: Jody Christoperson

Biography

Julia Knobloch is a poet, rabbi, and editor. A former documentary filmmaker, she is the author of three collections of poetry and was awarded a 2021 AJU Word Grant Bruce Geller Memorial Prize for her poetry community building and retreat facilitating projects. A former Brooklyn Poets Fellow, she is based in Los Angeles.

Published Works

Liner Notes (Kelsay Books, 2025)
Book of Failed Salvation (Chapbook; Ben Yehuda Press, 2021)
Do Not Return (Broadstone Books, 2019)

Links to Sample Works

Moment Magazine, “The State of Things”
Ritualwell, “5780”
Ben Yehuda Press, poems from Book of Failed Salvation

Subject Matter

Aging, Childhood, Cultural Identity, Diaspora, Grief & Elegy, History, Jewishness, Loss, Love, Midrash, Narrative, Torah, Visual Art.