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Rivers Crashing Inside

The secular surrealist Jewish poetry of Robert Desnos

byJake Marmer
The Silencing of the Jewish Poet
byMaxim D. Shrayer
Rivers Crashing Inside

The secular surrealist Jewish poetry of Robert Desnos

byJake Marmer
The Silencing of the Jewish Poet
byMaxim D. Shrayer

May Day

Rita Ackermann

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Paul Auster (1947–2024)

  • Read Paul Berman’s review of 4 3 2 1, Auster’s novel about the late 1960s and all their Jewish rebelliousness

I have to admit that all this obsession with identity is one I don’t fully understand. Identity to me is my passport, which has my name and my photograph. I never considered my characters as being in any way confused about their identity. It is true, however, that they’re struggling, and that they suffer from loss or some other hardship and are trying to piece their lives back together, but these are universal struggles, neither Jewish nor non-Jewish. My ambition as a writer has always been to write about the meaningful things in a person’s life—being born, growing up, falling in love, being in love—and the experiences they create.

—Paul Auster, to Elad Zeret with Liel Leibovitz, on being Jewish

A Wandering Jew

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Marco Roth on literature and culture in exile.

Poster for Republican President Richard M. Nixon’s reelection campaign, showing various scenes from his presidency, 1972
Poster for Republican President Richard M. Nixon’s reelection campaign, showing various scenes from his presidency, 1972
Rivers Crashing Inside

The secular surrealist Jewish poetry of Robert Desnos

byJake Marmer
The Fable of Fania

Salsa U.S.A. meets the Marvelous Jew and spawns ‘Hommy’

byMatti LeshemandBill Teck
Double Exposure: Jean-Pierre Melville

The ambiguities and darkness of Nazi-occupied France propelled him to flee his country, take a new name, fight in the Resistance, and then invent film noir. But the past continued to haunt him.

byAdrien Bosc
Rivers Crashing Inside

The secular surrealist Jewish poetry of Robert Desnos

byJake Marmer
The Fable of Fania

Salsa U.S.A. meets the Marvelous Jew and spawns ‘Hommy’

byMatti LeshemandBill Teck

Featured: David Mikics

Shalom Goldman’s surprising Zionist allies

Chava Rosenfarb Returns to Lodz

The author’s daughter travels to the safe haven of Poland to celebrate her mother’s work, before returning to a Canada beset by antisemites

byGoldie Morgentaler
Susan Sontag’s Funny! Sexy! Sad! Magnum Opus Threatens to Upend Our Democracy
byBlake Smith

Anyone on Israeli soil was symbolically Jewish and therefore worthy of being genitally mutilated, hacked to pieces or burned alive.

Susan Sontag’s Funny! Sexy! Sad! Magnum Opus Threatens to Upend Our Democracy
byBlake Smith

Anyone on Israeli soil was symbolically Jewish and therefore worthy of being genitally mutilated, hacked to pieces or burned alive.

Susan Sontag’s Funny! Sexy! Sad! Magnum Opus Threatens to Upend Our Democracy
byBlake Smith

Anyone on Israeli soil was symbolically Jewish and therefore worthy of being genitally mutilated, hacked to pieces or burned alive.

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Collection
Reflections on October 7
October 7th marked a rupture in time—a moment that made the before and after feel irreconcilable. Israel and the Jewish people now live in the fallout of that day. This collection presents reflections on grief and war by a new generation of Israeli writers, whose work will shape our imagination of the future.
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Sharon Ya’ari, 'Route 40 (Palms),' 2015
Sharon Ya’ari, 'Route 40 (Palms),' 2015
Sharon Ya’ari, 'Friday Evening, Ganei Aviv Neighborhood, Lod,' 2012
Sharon Ya’ari, 'Friday Evening, Ganei Aviv Neighborhood, Lod,' 2012
Sharon Ya’ari, 'Friday Evening, Ganei Aviv Neighborhood, Lod,' 2012
Sharon Ya’ari, 'Friday Evening, Ganei Aviv Neighborhood, Lod,' 2012
Sharon Ya’ari, 'Friday Evening, Ganei Aviv Neighborhood, Lod,' 2012
Sharon Ya’ari, 'Friday Evening, Ganei Aviv Neighborhood, Lod,' 2012
Sharon Ya’ari, 'Bridge With Flowers, Route 42,' 2013
Sharon Ya’ari, 'Bridge With Flowers, Route 42,' 2013
Life here in Israel has fallen out of time. Hours run out and disappear, and days melt into nights. Kibbutz Nir Oz, Oct. 30, 2023.
Life here in Israel has fallen out of time. Hours run out and disappear, and days melt into nights. Kibbutz Nir Oz, Oct. 30, 2023.
Sharon Ya’ari, 'Mosaic (double exposure at 90-degree turn),' 2013
Sharon Ya’ari, 'Mosaic (double exposure at 90-degree turn),' 2013
Sharon Ya’ari, 'Friday Evening, Ganei Aviv Neighborhood, Lod,' 2012
Sharon Ya’ari, 'Friday Evening, Ganei Aviv Neighborhood, Lod,' 2012
Life here in Israel has fallen out of time. Hours run out and disappear, and days melt into nights. Kibbutz Nir Oz, Oct. 30, 2023.
Life here in Israel has fallen out of time. Hours run out and disappear, and days melt into nights. Kibbutz Nir Oz, Oct. 30, 2023.
Sharon Ya’ari, 'Bridge With Flowers, Route 42,' 2013
Sharon Ya’ari, 'Bridge With Flowers, Route 42,' 2013
Sharon Ya’ari, 'Mosaic (double exposure at 90-degree turn),' 2013
Sharon Ya’ari, 'Mosaic (double exposure at 90-degree turn),' 2013
Sharon Ya’ari, 'Bridge With Flowers, Route 42,' 2013
Sharon Ya’ari, 'Bridge With Flowers, Route 42,' 2013
Life here in Israel has fallen out of time. Hours run out and disappear, and days melt into nights. Kibbutz Nir Oz, Oct. 30, 2023.
Life here in Israel has fallen out of time. Hours run out and disappear, and days melt into nights. Kibbutz Nir Oz, Oct. 30, 2023.
Sharon Ya’ari, 'Mosaic (double exposure at 90-degree turn),' 2013
Sharon Ya’ari, 'Mosaic (double exposure at 90-degree turn),' 2013
Sharon Ya’ari, 'Friday Evening, Ganei Aviv Neighborhood, Lod,' 2012
Sharon Ya’ari, 'Friday Evening, Ganei Aviv Neighborhood, Lod,' 2012
Sharon Ya’ari, 'Friday Evening, Ganei Aviv Neighborhood, Lod,' 2012
Sharon Ya’ari, 'Friday Evening, Ganei Aviv Neighborhood, Lod,' 2012
Sharon Ya’ari, 'Bridge With Flowers, Route 42,' 2013
Sharon Ya’ari, 'Bridge With Flowers, Route 42,' 2013
Life here in Israel has fallen out of time. Hours run out and disappear, and days melt into nights. Kibbutz Nir Oz, Oct. 30, 2023.
Life here in Israel has fallen out of time. Hours run out and disappear, and days melt into nights. Kibbutz Nir Oz, Oct. 30, 2023.
Sharon Ya’ari, 'Mosaic (double exposure at 90-degree turn),' 2013
Sharon Ya’ari, 'Mosaic (double exposure at 90-degree turn),' 2013
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