adminSeven days of mourning; that’s the proscribed ritual. Elena could hardly heave herself up the stairs to the women’s gallery to attend the convocation […]
Category: fiction
Ellis Shuman – ‘A Story in Which Two Yeshiva Students Come to a Shtetl’
Two yeshiva buchers went for a walk together and came to an unfamiliar village. It was Friday afternoon and Shabbos was swiftly approaching. As […]
Shulim Vogelmann – Two Extracts from While the City Burned (Mentre la città bruciava), translated by Anna Denzel
Extract 1 (pp. 48-49) Jerusalem, 1997 A young woman dressed up as Charlie Chaplin dances, children all around her. There’s a cowboy, a superman, […]
Eli Ehrenpreis – ‘Interruptions’
I have a goal to improve myself. The meeting was my best chance to change my life. Deciding on something this important and carrying […]
Alex Gordon – ‘The Honest Man’
Every non-French person has their own image of France, literary, historical, gastronomic, architectural. When I was learning French as a child, I often looked […]
Jen Rudin – ‘This is Sylvia. I Can Hear You’
(A companion piece to ‘This is Stu. Leave a Message’) This is the hospital they’ve taken me to? Sylvia thinks, looking up from a gurney […]
Emily Alice Katz – ‘Awake and Light your Lamp with the Oil of Gladness’
She did find the address of the apartment near the Machane Yehuda Market, but her niece Libby wasn’t home. Or didn’t actually live there. It wasn’t […]
David Daniel – ‘Nighttime by the Blue Line’
We climb a long sloping road to the northern border, the so-called blue line where kamikaze drones fly, where daily volleys of rockets and […]
Mark Russ – ‘The Ghost of Kyiv’
Pavel shot up from his knees, barely having time to make the sign of the cross, when he heard the cruise missile strike his […]
Basia Winograd – ‘Letter from a Zionist’
May 24, 1966, Tel Aviv My Dearest Feliks, Your silence after our last letter has not gone unremarked. Hanka and I not offended, […]