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Items with the tag:

death & mourning

Cover of The Holy & Broken Bliss
Poet­ry
The Holy & Bro­ken Bliss
Ali­cia Ostriker
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Fic­tion
Going Home
Tom Lam­ont
Cover of The Anatomy of Exile
Fic­tion
The Anato­my of Exile
Zee­va Bukai
Cover of Israel Alone
Non­fic­tion
Israel Alone
Bernard-Hen­ri Lévy
Poetry—Witnessing: Post Oct. 7

“I stood close as tar­gets do”

Rachel Neve Midbar
November 18, 2024
Poetry—Witnessing: Post Oct. 7

A Lake of Stars

Zee­va Bukai
November 11, 2024
Fiction—Witnessing: Post Oct. 7

We All Have to Com­fort Each Other

Gila Green
October 21, 2024
Poetry—Witnessing: Post Oct. 7

A Belief in Order

Owen Lewis
October 7, 2024
Poetry—Witnessing: Post Oct. 7

If I For­get Thee

Lesléa New­man
October 7, 2024
Essay—Witnessing: Post Oct. 7

Meet­ing a Survivor

Jonathan Dun­sky
October 7, 2024
Essay—Witnessing: Post Oct. 7

You Only Go Up to Israel for the First Time Once in Your Life

Shawn A. Weiss
October 7, 2024
Essay

The One Year of Shiva

Lee Yaron
October 6, 2024
Cover of Fifty-Seven Fridays: Losing Our Daughter, Finding Our Way
Non­fic­tion
Fifty-Sev­en Fri­days: Los­ing Our Daugh­ter, Find­ing Our Way
Myra Sack
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Non­fic­tion
One Day in Octo­ber: Forty Heroes, Forty Stories
Yair Agmon and Oriya Mevorach
Poetry—Witnessing: Post Oct. 7

A Prayer on this Rosh Hashanah

Mol­ly Ritvo
September 26, 2024
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Fic­tion
A Rea­son to See You Again
Jami Atten­berg
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