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Month: February 2025

fiction

Eli Daniel Ehrenpreis – ‘A Visit to the Doctor’

February 24, 2025February 24, 2025 admin 3 mins read

  I went for a walk and then decided to visit an elderly relative staying at a hotel just off the beach. I stood by […]

fiction

Diane Lederman – ‘Ida Schine’s Tsuris’

February 17, 2025February 17, 2025 admin 26 mins read

  (This is the ninth story in a collection called Saving Democracy about the impact of the Great War on the West End in Boston. )    “Shell shock […]

review

[Review] ‘Hidden in Plain Sight: A Family Memoir and the Untold Story of the Holocaust in Serbia’ by Julie Brill 

February 13, 2025February 13, 2025 admin 3 mins read

  Julie Brill, Hidden in Plain Sight: A Family Memoir and the Untold Story of the Holocaust in Serbia, Amsterdam Publishers, April 2025, 433 pgs.   […]

poetry

Susan Michele Coronel – Four Poems

February 10, 2025February 11, 2025 admin 4 mins read

Kafka’s Sister’s Braid During the occupation Ottla divorced her non-Jewish husband to save him and their daughters. Her black eyes and black mouth twisted into […]

fiction, translation

Jonathan Vidgop – ‘The Teacher’ (translated by Leo Shtutin)

February 3, 2025February 3, 2025 admin 13 mins read

  When I am brought before the court of Heaven, no one will ask me, “Zusya, why were you not Abraham, Jacob or Moses?”  They’ll […]