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Month: July 2024

review

[Review] – A Visit to Moscow

July 26, 2024August 20, 2024 admin 4 mins read

  A Visit to Moscow – adapted by Anna Olswanger from a story by Rabbi Rafael Grossman, illustrated by Yevgenia Nayberg   (Reviewed by Monette […]

fiction

Basia Winograd – ‘Letter from a Zionist’

July 26, 2024July 28, 2024 admin 17 mins read

  May 24, 1966, Tel Aviv My Dearest Feliks,        Your silence after our last letter has not gone unremarked. Hanka and I not offended, […]

poetry

Laurel Benjamin – Three Poems

July 22, 2024July 22, 2024 admin 6 mins read

  In the Middle    1.   Ghosts dreamed in the space between my parents.  I read the reflection in their longing (though I didn’t […]

fiction

Freddie Levin – ‘Still Waters’

July 14, 2024July 14, 2024 admin 6 mins read

             Enid sits in the center of the first row, a handkerchief folded gently in her hands. The dark  polished wood of the coffin on […]

review

[Review] Places We Leave Behind – Jennifer Lang

July 10, 2024July 10, 2024 admin 3 mins read

Places We Leave Behind – Jennifer Lang (reviewed by Monette Moradi) With a memoir that borders on modern poetry in certain chapters, Jennifer Lang delivers […]

poetry, translation

Mildred Faintly – ‘Brest-Litovsk’: A Translation from the Yiddish of Anna Margolin (Lider, 1917)

July 7, 2024July 7, 2024 admin 4 mins read

  Brest-Litovsk 1.   The old city, the little gray city astride the Mukhovets river, astride the borders of Russia and Poland both, its nationality […]