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Category: fiction
Eli Daniel Ehrenpreis – ‘A Visit to the Doctor’
I went for a walk and then decided to visit an elderly relative staying at a hotel just off the beach. I stood by […]
Diane Lederman – ‘Ida Schine’s Tsuris’
(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 […]
Jonathan Vidgop – ‘The Teacher’ (translated by Leo Shtutin)
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 […]
Jennifer Anne Moses – ‘Trouble with Charlotte’
More than once, his three daughters had all told him that they couldn’t stand Charlotte, but Bernie didn’t mind her. After all, he didn’t […]
Lia – ‘Pick Any Summer’
Seven 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 […]
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 […]