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Month: April 2025

non-fiction, review

[Review] ‘Winter Light: The Memoir of a Child of Holocaust Survivors’ by Grace Feuerverger

April 29, 2025April 29, 2025 admin 4 mins read

Grace Feuerverger, Winter Light: The Memoir of a Child of Holocaust Survivors, Amsterdam Publishers, September 2024, 452 pgs. (reviewed by Monette Moradi) Intergenerational trauma is […]

fiction

Jennifer Anne Moses – ‘The Building’

April 28, 2025April 28, 2025 admin 25 mins read

The building where my boyfriend lived was filled with Jews from Westchester County. When I say “filled” I don’t mean every apartment, on every floor. […]

poetry, translation

Hamutal Bar-Yosef – Three Poems (translated by Esther Cameron)

April 28, 2025 admin 7 mins read

  We Had “We had a house built of stone!“ In the confidential darkness my mother would whisper the standard legend, with eyes closed, in […]

non-fiction

Judith Suissa – ‘Memory and Mourning, from Vilnius to Marrakesh’

April 21, 2025April 21, 2025 admin 14 mins read

Seven years ago, I stood in biting wind at the edge of an empty field in rural Lithuania, feeling defeated. The field was not actually […]

non-fiction

Laura Hodes – ‘Counting Chickens’

April 7, 2025April 7, 2025 admin 22 mins read

  The decision has been made. We will make aliyah and join our children in Israel. It’s 1947; it’s time. Yes, it’s a pity that we are […]