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Essay “I Am a Bombay on the Move”: Growing Up Jewish and Jain An exploration of religious and racial displacement Diane Mehta June 17, 2019
Essay Twenty-one Notes on Muriel Rukeyser’s ‘To Be a Jew in the Twentieth Century’ Lucy Biederman May 3, 2019
From the Journal In the Beginning the Neighborhood Girls Read Philip Roth Drunk in Their Baths Allison Pitinii Davis February 11, 2019
Interview An Interview with Jake Marmer by Lucy Biederman I recently spoke with Jake Marmer about his excellent new volume of poetry, The Neighbor Out of Sound. We talked about form, his immigration… Lucy Biederman October 23, 2018
Essay Writing the Jewish Rust Belt I suspect that there are readers like me who find nothing strange about love and Spinoza, about Coors Light and Treblinka. Allison Pitinii Davis April 16, 2018
Essay Why I Write in Yiddish When I write in Yiddish, I’m placing my own small flag, however tattered, however imperfect, in the realm of new Yiddish literature. Yermiyahu Ahron Taub March 12, 2018
Essay Amichai’s Jerusalem The best guide to this strange place called Jerusalem might be Yehuda Amichai, a poet whose work seems permanently suspended between the secular and sacred. Ari Hoffman December 18, 2017
