“You have to understand,” Irmgard explained to Jane and me the evening before our departure, “spending time like this with Chagall is a privilege. […]
literary journal
Anne Myles – Three Poems
Tribe I’m driving towards Santa Fe with my old friend. Around us a landscape as alien as the moon. Sandy ground with tumbleweed […]
Catherine Gonick – Two Poems
Newcomers The only Jews in town, my father’s family was respected. The churchgoers in Red Oak, Iowa considered them People of the Book […]
Paul Rabinowitz – Three Poems
Diaspores A broken clothesline leans against its shadow nothing to hang memories on through the stillness of the desert landscape I […]
Lonnie Monka – Three Poems
אמא with an extended index-finger tracing circles in the air you said: “the end must be the beginning it’s all a big loop” lounging […]
Zeeva Bukai – ‘Requiem for the Lost’
I It’s August 1977, your year abroad in Israel. You survive a khamsin, a hot desert wind that lasts three days. Lying on the […]
Miles Whitney – An excerpt from ‘The Origin Story of Death’
The Origin Story of Death – Chapter 7 After my daughter died, people asked whether I had received any signs from her. I initially was […]
Gina Roitman – ‘Sisterhood’
For the past few years, I have been leading a memoir workshop via Zoom for 12 daughters of Holocaust survivors in the DC area […]
Sarah Terez Rosenblum – ‘Figures of Speech’
“I’m afraid to wear this,” I told my fiancé. We were emptying Christmas stockings, and Matt had given me a delicate Jewish star. “That’s fucked […]
Maxim D. Shrayer – Three Poems
Last Will and Testament Thomas Mann has returned to the city of Lübeck. The municipal elders have gathered to welcome him home. He‘s old. […]
Carol Dorf – Four Poems
On A Crowded Bus after Ryzard Krynicki A bus from El Paso is nothing like a train from Friedrichstraße station with its memorial to the children […]