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Recommended Reading

My Grandfather’s Stories: From the Shtetl to Chicago

Jamie Wendt

March 31, 2025

Cover of There Are as Many Songs in the World as Branches of Coral

There Are as Many Songs in the World as Branches of Coral

Elizabeth Jacobson

Cover of Rimonim: Ritual Poetry of Jewish Liberation

Rimonim: Ritual Poetry of Jewish Liberation

Aurora Levins Morales

Cover of A Dress Rehearsal for the Truth

A Dress Rehearsal for the Truth

Cover of A Flag of No Nation

A Flag of No Nation

Cover of The Holy & Broken Bliss

The Holy & Broken Bliss

Alicia Ostriker

Essay

Psalms to Adonai from the Depths of the Holocaust

Menachem Z. Rosensaft

January 13, 2025

Cover of The Light from My Menorah: Celebrating Holidays around the World

The Light from My Menorah: Celebrating Holidays around the World

Robin Heald; Andrea Blinick, illus.

Poetry—Witnessing: Post Oct. 7

The Year the Jewish Poets Disappeared

Jehanne Dubrow

December 23, 2024

Cover of Shechinah at the Art Institute

Shechinah at the Art Institute

Poetry—Witnessing: Post Oct. 7

A Hebrew Poet of Muslim Spain Reads the New York Times: Angel of Death

Richard Chess

December 5, 2024

Cover of I Just Let Life Rain Down on Me: Selected Letters and Reflections

I Just Let Life Rain Down on Me: Selected Letters and Reflections

Rahel Levin Varnhagen; Peter Wortsman, ed. and trans.

Poetry—Witnessing: Post Oct. 7

“I stood close as targets do”

Rachel Neve Midbar

November 18, 2024

The book cover of The Braille Encyclopedia: Essays on Altered Sight by Naomi Cohn. The text is displayed in both braille and non-braille and is arranged like an eye chart, with each line getting smaller and smaller.

The Braille Encyclopedia: Brief Essays on Altered Sight

Poetry—Witnessing: Post Oct. 7

In Borrowed Clothes

Merri Ukraincik

October 14, 2024

Cover of Documentary Poetry

Documentary Poetry

Heimrad Bäcker; Patrick Greaney, trans.