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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 […]
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, […]
Mildred Faintly – ‘Brest-Litovsk’: A Translation from the Yiddish of Anna Margolin (Lider, 1917)
Brest-Litovsk 1. The old city, the little gray city astride the Mukhovets river, astride the borders of Russia and Poland both, its nationality […]