For Jewish American Heritage Month, observed annually during the month of May, we asked our member magazines and presses to share with us some of the work by Jewish American writers that they recommend reading in celebration.
Poetry
Hills Full of Holes by Dan Alter
Fernwood Press | 2025
ISBN: 978-1-59498-157-9
“Part elegy, part pastoral, part ode to beloved and beleaguered set-asides,” this poetry collection “journeys in widening understandings of injuries to body and land, and their possible recoveries.”
Naming a Hurricane by Madeline Artenberg
Pink Trees Press | 2023
ISBN: 978-1-66640-025-0
Artenberg’s poetry collection explores “that double edge—dazzling human possibility, potential disappointment.”
The Animal Is Chemical by Hadara Bar-Nadav
Four Way Books | 2024
ISBN: 978-1-961897-00-7
In this poetry collection, Bar-Nadav “brilliantly draws on her own experience as a medical editor and her family’s history of Holocaust survival to write into the hybrid legacy of Western medicine: part clinical empiricism, part human fallibility and moral bankruptcy.”
Entre Ríos Books | 2020
ISBN: 978-0960045716
“With playful digressions into anecdote, the philosophy of consciousness, literature, and animal behavioral science,” this book “queers genre, gender, and sequence.”
What Can I Ask: New and Selected Poems 1975-2014 by Elana Dykewomon
Sinister Wisdom | 2025
ISBN: 978-1-944981-80-8
The poems in this collection “help us understand the contours of sexism, homophobia, racism, and antisemitism.”
Passager Books | 2022
ISBN: 978-1735514857
According to Ed Hirsch, Elber’s “tender-hearted and incantatory Whitmanian poems catapult us into his Jewish past with fierce determination and loving detail.”
The Sky Will Overtake You by Marcia Falk
Scarlet Tanager Books | 2025
ISBN: 978-1734531381
According to Jehanne Dubrow, this poetry collection examines “the lyrical responsibilities of the poet: to create meaning and beauty, to grieve what’s lost, and to express gratitude for every fragile, tenuous moment of being human.”
Secular Audacity by Joy Gaines-Friedler
Mayapple Press | 2025
ISBN: 978-1-952781-26-1
This poetry collection “looks at life through a secular—albeit Jewish—lens, recognizing, even celebrating mystery, awe, joy, humor, justice and injustice without assigning divine authority.”
AERODROME ORION & Starry Messenger by Susan Gevirtz
Kelsey Street Press | 2010
ISBN: 978-0932716-71-2
This poetry collection “orchestrates the relationships between many different types of skies, among them: the technological sky as mapped by air traffic controllers, the sky stressed by the demands of our global economy, a politically charged sky.”
Might Kindred by Mónica Gomery
University of Nebraska Press | 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4962-3239-7
In this poetry collection—winner of the 2021 Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry—“belonging and unbelonging are claimed as part of the same complicated whole, and Gomery’s intersections reach for something divine at the center.”
Let Our Bodies Change the Subject by Jared Harél
University of Nebraska Press | 2023
ISBN: 978-1-4962-3729-3
Winner of the 2022 Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, this collection “dives headlong into the terrifying, wondrous, sleep-deprived existence of being a parent in twenty-first-century America.”
Homecoming: and other poems by Rebecca Herz
Prolific Pulse Press | 2023
ISBN: 979-8987520000
This poetry collection “collapses the binary of religious and secular, asking the reader to engage in the work of encountering the beautiful human spirit within the day to day.”
Sundry Abductions by Maria Dylan Himmelman
Hanging Loose Press | 2023
ISBN: 978-1-934909-75-1
This collection “honors the memory of three Hanging Loose founders: Ron Schreiber, Emmett Jarrett, and Robert Hershon.”
Four Way Books | 2024
ISBN: 978-1-954245-82-2
This poetry collection “draws on the Book of Genesis as a living document whose stories, wisdom, and ethical knots can engage us more fully with our own lives—whatever your religious tradition or spiritual beliefs.”
she talks to herself in the language of an educated women by Frances Jaffer
Kelsey Street Press | 1981
ISBN: 0-932716-13-X
According to Susan Griffin, Jaffer’s collection is “an intellect of emotions of the body of all the philosophical questions embedded in a woman’s experience.”
Analog Poet Blues by Yeva Johnson
Black Lawrence Press | 2023
ISBN: 978-1-955239-35-6
This collection “captures the journey of a poet searching for romance and seeking justice in a world transformed from the analog to the digital age.”
Our Mother, The Mountain by Alexander Shalom Joseph
Middle Creek Publishing & Audio | 2022
ISBN: 978-1-957483-00-9
According to Logan Hebner, Joseph “offers a path forward by finding solace in his chosen sanctuary while squaring with our troubled world.”
Sweet Malida: Memories of a Bene Israel Woman by Zilka Joseph
Mayapple Press | 2024
ISBN: 978-1-952781-19-3
According to Joan Roland, in these poems and short prose pieces Joseph “provides the reader with a rich, multilayered portrait of the Bene Israel—and of herself.”
Past/Present and Other Poems by Robert Kaplan
Poets of Queens | 2023
ISBN: 978-1735147895
In this collection, Kaplan “uses detailed imagery to invite the reader into a slice of 1980s New York City: the urban landscape, the national politics, gay exuberance and loss, and, weaving throughout, the shadow of the AIDS epidemic.”
Dzanc Books | 2025
ISBN: 978-1-938603-26-6
In this poetry collection, Kass “intertwines fiction with reality as he delves into the origins of the Marvel superheroes, explores how the Marvel saga informed his own worldview, and implores us all to continue to believe in the forces of good.”
The Memory House by Raki Kopernik
Unsolicited Press | 2024
ISBN: 978-1963115253
This poetic memoir is “based on stories about the Israeli immigrant experience, ranging from the author’s grandparents leaving Eastern Europe during the holocaust, to her parents immigrating from Israel to America in the sixties, and then to her own experiences growing up between Israel and the US in the eighties.”
Unlikely Skylight by Hollis Kurman
Barrow Street | 2025
ISBN: 978-1-962131-10-0
According to Bryan R. Monte, this book is an “unforgettable poetry collection about family, fidelity, war, death, brain injury, migration, and even birds and dance.”
Wolf Lamb Bomb by Aviya Kushner
Orison Books | 2021
ISBN: 978-1-949039-17-7
This debut poetry collection “revives and reimagines the Book of Isaiah in an intimate conversation between woman and prophet.”
A Prayer of Six Wings by Owen Lewis
Dos Madres Press | 2025
ISBN: 978-1-962847-19-3
According to Alicia Ostriker, this poetry collection is an “extraordinary book, not for the ideological but for the intellectually and emotionally engaged, and for lovers of poetry and truth.”
Well You Needn’t by Joel Lewis
Hanging Loose Press | 2024
ISBN: 978-1-934909-80-5
In this collection, Lewis “gathers his poems about the music that has occupied him since his teenage years.”
Grandfather’s Mandolin by Fran Markover
Passager Books | 2021
ISBN: 978-1735514826
According to David Keplinger, “in these poems languages and names and articles of clothing seem to have lives, hats are thought to be alive, and names deserve elegies and memorials because they are breathing things that can pass away from this world, if we do not take care.”
Grid Books | 2024
ISBN: 978-1946830302
“Written in the wake of the sudden disappearance of her nephew,” Medved’s poetry collection “tells of the struggle to process loss without any physical anchor.”
Tiny Extravaganzas by Diane Mehta
Arrowsmith Press | 2023
ISBN: 9798987924112
The poems in this collection are “miniaturist examinations of art, aging, literature, grief, parenting, the sublime, labor, and faith.”
Sleeping as Fast as I Can by Richard Michelson
Slant Books | 2023
ISBN: 978-1-63982-135-8
In this poetry collection, Michelson “pays tribute to his father, a victim of gun violence, and honors his mother’s surrender to dementia.”
Rimonim by Aurora Levins Morales
Ayin Press | 2024
ISBN: 978-1-961814-17-2
“Rooted in tradition and flowering in the tumultuous present,” the poems in this collection “will both accompany specific Jewish practices and offer inspiration for the sacred work of human liberation, where joy meets justice.”
A Precise Chaos by Jo-Ann Mort
Arrowsmith Press | 2025
ISBN: 9798990405059
Mort’s poems “reflect her experiences as a trade union activist, a political organizer, and a peace activist in the Middle East.”
T’shuvah by Richard Jeffrey Newman
Fernwood Press | 2023
ISBN: 978-1-59498-112-8
According to Nandana Dev Sen, this poetry collection “searches, with relentless beauty, for the truth of what we feel most deeply, pulsing with an awareness of loss as tangible as its celebration of faith, and of love—reminding us that ‘deceit begins when touch fails.’”
The Concealment of Endless Light by Yehoshua November
Orison Books | 2024
ISBN: 978-1-949039-50-4
This poetry collection “extends the marriage of mysticism and everyday life that has become November’s signature and particular strength as a poet.”
Crowd Surfing With God by Adrienne Novy
Half Mystic Press | 2023
ISBN: 978-1-948552-16-5
This poetry collection discusses “growing up with a rare genetic disorder and mental illness, family and being in a multifaith household, pop culture, and the acts of playing and listening to music bringing you closer to yourself and to healing.”
The Holy & Broken Bliss by Alicia Ostriker
Alice James Books | 2024
ISBN: 978-1-949944-67-9
The poems in this collection “are grounded in daily existence, human tenderness, the rituals of a long marriage, and the poet’s ongoing spiritual quest.”
Searching for Home by Robert Pack
Slant Books | 2023
ISBN: 978-1-63982-147-1
Written shortly before Pack’s death, this poetry collection is “both a vision of Pack’s own odyssey and his final testament to what matters.”
It’s Not Over Once You Figure It Out by Isaac Pickell
Black Ocean | 2023
ISBN: 978-1-939568-63-2
This book is a “linguistically experimental and socially engaged collection of poems that examines questions of colorism within an economically driven world.”
night myths • • before the body by Abi Pollokoff
Red Hen Press | 2025
ISBN: 978-1-63628-197-1
This poetry collection is an “ecofeminist interrogation of identity, vulnerability, and relationship that dismantles the boundaries between the body and the natural world to reclaim expressions of power and womanhood.”
Words on the Street by Anna Rabinowitz
Tupelo Press | 2016
ISBN: 978-1-936797-80-6
In this poetry collection, “an infant is abducted and seven symbolic figures play their metaphoric fiddles while humanity is plagued by chronic threat, insecurity, and confusion.”
There Are Still Woods by Hila Ratzabi
June Road Press | 2022
ISBN: 978-1-7356783-8-2
This debut poetry collection is a “radiant appraisal of life at the precipice of climate crisis and a haunting elegy for all we stand to lose.”
Poems Momma Never Read Me by Elliot M. Rubin
Prolific Pulse Press | 2024
ISBN: 978-1962374309
This poetry collection “navigates through themes of personal sorrow, wit, affection, the passage of time, and the mundane aspects of urban existence.”
History of Gone by Lynn Schmeidler
Veliz Books | 2018
ISBN: 978-0996913478
This poetry collection is “inspired by the life and unsolved disappearance of Barbara Newhall Follett, a once-famous child prodigy writer of the early 20th century.”
Self Portrait of Icarus as a Country on Fire by Jason Schneiderman
Red Hen Press | 2024
ISBN: 978-1-63628-162-9
In this poetry collection, Schneiderman “confronts the rise of extremism and antisemitism in the United States while grappling with the end of his marriage and finding his feet as a newly single gay man.”
Veliz Books | 2024
ISBN: 978-1949776171
This collection of poems “explores motherhood, the dissolution of a marriage, and grief through the lens of a shrinking pandemic space.”
Walking Backwards by Lee Sharkey
Tupelo Press | 2016
ISBN: 978-1-936797-90-5
This poetry collection “examines resistance to violence and repression through evocations of contemporary events and conversations with poets and artists whose voices arise from the Holocaust.”
Body of Diminishing Motion by Joan Seliger Sidney
CavanKerry Press | 2004
ISBN: 978-0-9723045-2-8
In this collection of poetry and memoir, Sidney “speaks to the author’s experiences living with multiple sclerosis for four decades, as well as her personal legacy as the daughter of a strong-willed Holocaust survivor.”
The Baby Book by Robin Silbergleid
CavanKerry Press | 2015
ISBN: 978-1-933880-58-7
Silbergleid’s poetry collection “depicts her long struggle to build her family through assisted reproductive technology.”
What I Got for a Dollar by Bert Stern
Grid Books | 2018
ISBN: 978-1946830012
According to Richard Fein, Stern’s “poems are rare vessels of encounter, necessity, and vacancy, splendid visions of a blessed world where life is both given and taken away.”
Alice James Books | 2025
ISBN: 978-1-949944-73-0
In this poetry collection, Sugar “obsessively searches form and language to communicate what happens in the U.S. mass incarceration system.”
Black Lawrence Press | 2024
ISBN: 978-1-62557-076-5
This novella-in-verse “explores the high-stakes minutia of living with other people related by blood and marriage, through fables, ledgers, etymologies.”
Metal, Heavy by Micah D. Zevin
Poets of Queens | 2020
ISBN: 978-1735147819
This poetry collection is “an escape, an analysis and a blunt object to guide one through the end times whether the obstacles are political, personal or environmental.”
Fiction
The Hebrew Teacher by Maya Arad
Translated from the Hebrew by Jessica Cohen
New Vessel Press | 2024
ISBN: 978-1-954404-23-6
In this trio of novellas, “three Israeli women, their lives altered by immigration to the United States, seek to overcome crises.”
The Death and Life of August Sweeney by Samuel Ashworth
Santa Fe Writers Project | 2025
ISBN: 978-1-951631-41-3
In this novel, “legendary chef August Sweeney has served his final meal, dying in the middle of service in the very restaurant he built to secure his legacy.”
Golden Threads by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay
Ayin Press | 2025
ISBN: 978-1-961814-21-9
This book “will take people of all ages on a journey into the multi-faith world of Morocco’s craftspeople, inspiring generative conversations about art, labor, community, and technology for years to come.”
Revenge of the Scapegoat by Caren Beilin
Dorothy, a publishing project | 2022
ISBN: 978-1-948980-07-4
In this novel, Beilin “offers a tale of familial trauma that is also a broadly inclusive skewering of academia, the medical industry, and the contemporary art scene.”
The Usual Uncertainties by Jonathan Blum
Rescue Press | 2019
ISBN: 978-0999418659
This short story collection “revels in the persistent human struggle to love with abandon and marks a radiant voice in American short fiction.”
Infinite Kindness by Laurie Blauner
Black Heron Press | 2010
ISBN: 978-0-930773-80-9
Blauner’s historical novel follows the story of Ann Russell, a nurse and veteran of the Crimean War who “must confront problems of euthanasia, medicine, sexual identity, grief and spirituality on both a personal and a social level.”
The Lost Princess by Jessica Tamar Deutsch
Ayin Press | 2024
ISBN: 978-1-961814-01-1
This picture book is a “colorful and imaginative retelling of a classic parable from Rebbe Nachman of Breslov.”
Possible Happiness by David Ebenbach
Regal House Publishing | 2024
ISBN: 978-1-64603-502-1
According to Gary Eldon Peter, this young adult novel is a “coming of age love letter to Philadelphia in the late 1980s and to one young man’s journey of self-discovery and self-acceptance.”
People Are Talking by Amanda Eisenberg
Three Rooms Press | 2025
ISBN: 978-1-953103-59-8
In this debut novel, “author Mallory Shepard attends her estranged best friend’s wedding in Austin, where she and six friends try to settle old scores—with unexpected deadly consequences.”
Blessed Hands: Stories by Frume Halpern
Translated from the Yiddish by Yermiyahu Ahron Taub
Frayed Edge Press | 2023
ISBN: 978-1-64251-049-2
This collection of short stories from the mid-twentieth century “present the lives of protagonists who are working-class poor, social outcasts, and those experiencing illness, disability, and racism.”
Nirvana Is Here by Aaron Hamburger
Three Rooms Press | 2019
ISBN: 978-1-941110-77-5
This novel is an “honest story about recovery and coping with both past and present, framed by the meteoric rise and fall of the band Nirvana and the wide-reaching scope of the #metoo movement.”
The Clearing by Alexander Shalom Joseph
Middle Creek Publishing & Audio | 2025
ISBN: 978-1-957483-35-1
This novella is a “poignant meditation on isolation, toxic masculinity, trauma, humanity’s fraught history of imposing on the land, and the disconnection from the natural world.”
Hamlet’s Children by Richard Kluger
Scarlet Tanager Books | 2023
ISBN: 978-1-7345313-6-7
This novel is “the story of a young American’s wrenching assimilation with his Danish relatives and adopted countrymen as each, in different and often cunning ways, attempts to subvert the Germans’ iron grip on their lives.”
Early Pleasures by Frederick Kohner
Black Heron Press | 2011
ISBN: 978-0-930773-96-0
In this fictionalization of Kohner’s adolescence and relationships with four women in the years after World War I, “the protagonist experiences not only desire but also the tragedy of life and the humor inherent in life’s ironies.”
No One’s Leaving by Raki Kopernik
Unsolicited Press | 2025
ISBN: 978-1-963115-24-6
In this novel, “a young woman travels through Europe in the late nineties after she learns of her ex-girlfriend’s suicide, whose ghost follows her around.”
Dissonance by Lisa Lenard-Cook
Santa Fe Writers Project | 2014
ISBN: 978-1-939650-11-5
In this novel, a Los Alamos piano teacher “inherits the journals and scores of composer Hana Weissova” and “is mystified by this bequest from a woman she does not know.”
Wild Milk by Sabrina Orah Mark
Dorothy, a publishing project | 2018
ISBN: 978-0-9973666-8-6
According to Will Walton, “these glorious, distilled, funny, and sometimes devastating stories engage with the past, our present, politics, trauma, terror, and love.”
Nothing Vast by Moshe Zvi Marvit
Acre Books | 2024
ISBN: 978-1-946724-79-3
This novel is a “sweeping multigenerational tale” that “complicates traditional narratives as it follows two families—one Moroccan, one Polish—filled with Zionists, anti-Zionists, socialists, and reactionaries.”
Woodhall Press | 2024
ISBN: 978-1-960456-11-3
This historical novel “weaves a compelling tale of a mixed Jewish/Roman family’s dynamics, against the backdrop of the Roman world, in a society which is on the cusp of change.”
Regal House Publishing | 2025
ISBN: 978-1-64603-551-9
In this children’s novel, “the Borensteins and twelve other Jewish families have left behind the deadly pogroms of Eastern Europe only to find life nearly as harsh in 1911 Mill Creek, Wisconsin.”
The Astronaut’s Son by Tom Seigel
Woodhall Press | 2021
ISBN: 978-1-949116-40-3
In this novel, “a Jewish astronaut must reassess his moral compass when forced to confront NASA’s early collaboration with Nazis and the role it may have played in his father’s death.”
American Playground by Michael Isaac Shokrian
The Thieving Magpie | 2025
ISBN: 9798992541700
In American Playground, “7-year-old Mishel Manoucherian’s family has packed up their life in Tehran and moved to Los Angeles, launching him headfirst into a disorienting new world of social and schoolyard expectations.”
Simple Gimpl: The Definitive Bilingual Edition by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Translated from the Yiddish by Saul Bellow, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and David Stromberg
Restless Books | 2023
ISBN: 978-1-63206-038-9
This story originally published in 1945 is “about a hapless yet charmingly resilient baker named Gimpl, who resists taking revenge on the town that makes him the butt of every joke.”
A Brutal Design by Zachary C. Solomon
Lanternfish Press | 2024
ISBN: 978-1-941360-81-1
In this novel, architecture student Samuel Zelnik “receives an unexpected offer of freedom working in the experimental utopian city of Duma.”
Unfinished Acts of Wild Creation by Sarah Yahm
Dzanc Books | 2025
ISBN: 978-1-938603-28-0
“Following a tight-knit, eccentric Jewish family, the Rosenbergs, over four decades,” this novel “combines the madness of motherhood with the manic absurdity of grief.”
Nonfiction, Drama & Cross-Genre Works
In the Shadow of King Saul by Jerome Charyn
Bellevue Literary Press | 2018
ISBN: 978-1-942658-43-6
In this essay collection, Charyn “shares personal stories about places steeped in history and myth, including his beloved New York, and larger-than-life personalities from the Bible and from the worlds of film, literature, politics, sports, and the author’s own family.”
The Promise of Sunrise by Ted Levin
Green Writers Press | 2025
ISBN: 9798989178421
According to Frances Cannon, Levin “considers, as all modern nature writers should, the dramatic effects of the climate crisis on his local landscape” in this book.
Unspoken Bequest: The Contribution of German Jews to German Culture by Hugo Munsterberg
McPherson & Company | 1995
ISBN: 978-1-878352-10-1
In this book, Munsterberg details “the achievements of German Jews in every major field of endeavor, including Martin Buber, Karl Marx, Erich Fromm, Heinrich Heine, Moses Mendelssohn, Rosa Luxemburg, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Walter Rathenau, and Hannah Arendt.”
Secret Agent Man by Margot Singer
Barrow Street | 2025
ISBN: 978-1-962131-07-0
In this essay collection, Singer “probes the nature of time and history, obscurity and clarity, nostalgia and loss.”
An Anti-Zionist Path to Embodied Jewish Healing by Wendy Elisheva Somerson
North Atlantic Books | 2025
ISBN: 9798889841876
In this book, Somerson “shows how Jewish history lives in Jewish bodies—and how antisemitism and oppression disrupt our access to safety, dignity, and belonging.”
How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish
Restless Books | 2023
ISBN: 978-1-63206-226-0
This anthology edited by Ilan Stavans and Josh Lambert “starts with the arrival of Ashkenazi immigrants to New York City’s Lower East Side and follows Yiddish as it moves into Hollywood, Broadway, literature, politics, and resistance.”
Keep Your Wives Away from Them
North Atlantic Books | 2010
ISBN: 978-1-55643-879-0
This anthology edited by Miryam Kabakov gives “voice to genderqueer Jewish women who were once silenced—and effectively rendered invisible—by their faith.”
Literary Magazines
The Baffling | 2021
This short story begins, “I had forgotten which dating app I met Leah on, but it was either the dating app where I masqueraded as a crossdressing man interested in women or the dating app where I masqueraded as a confident lesbian.”
The Common | 2023
This short story begins, “As soon as I read about the albatrosses in the Times, I thought of my big sister. Natasha.”
“A Ritchie Boy from Training to War” by Victor Brombert
The Hudson Review | 2025
This essay begins, “Perhaps the most moving sequence in Christian Bauer’s gripping documentary film The Ritchie Boys (2004) is that moment when, faced with human ashes in the liberated Nazi extermination camp, one of the Jewish Ritchie Boys tells how, trying to address the survivors, he remained deprived of speech, forgetting his family tongue, Yiddish.”
“If Nameless Fields Could Sing” by Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach
ANMLY | 2020
This poem begins, “We expected to find it / alone, just us in that sun / under the evergreens…”
Excerpt from Your Comrade, Avreml Broide: A Worker’s Life Story by Ben Gold
Translated from the Yiddish by Annie Sommer Kaufman
Another Chicago Magazine | 2024
This excerpt begins, “Ben Gold, the president of the Fur Workers Union, was one of the boldest and most beloved labor leaders in the US.”
West Trestle Review | 2021
This poem begins, “The day after is Halloween, the neighborhood jeweled, dazzling with transformers and zombie ballerinas, the / entire neighborhood pours into and out of itself like two glasses of water.”
“Butcher Shop” by Sharon Israel
Epistemic Literary | 2023
This poem begins, “I worked in my father’s butcher shop only once. / Scooped shiny brains into plastic bags.”
“Posthuman Slays the Jabberwock” by Esmé Kaplan-Kinsey
The Cincinnati Review | 2024
This piece begins, “And ho, the beast which calls itself human comes cribbling down the meadow, blade blooded with / victory.”
“In One Box” by Joy E. Krinsky
Epistemic Literary | 2024
This essay begins, “One of the jewels of my Portland neighborhood is the Evergreen Cemetery. Wandering among the paths and lanes of history, there is always something new to notice.”
Paper Brigade | 2024
This short story begins, “In the census of 1784, when Slutsk was still part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, he appears as Itsko Polak, or Isaac the Pole.”
“It’s passé to put cigarettes in a poem, but all I ever do is smoke” by Isaac Pickell
The Cincinnati Review | 2024
This poem begins, “The 14A District Court stands near the corner / of Washtenaw and Carpenter, presiding over / the busiest intersection in the whole city, which means / when you’re being taken into custody, you can count / on having a little extra time to wait.”
FICTION | 1983
This issue features historic Jewish narratives in translation alongside works by Jewish American writers including Cori Jones, Fanny Howe, Roger Salloch, Mark Jay Mirsky, Albert J. Guerard, Howard Schwartz, and more.
“Writing Someone Else’s Story” by Brooke Randel
Another Chicago Magazine | 2024
This excerpt begins, “I had fifteen minutes. I slipped out of my work clothes and into a t-shirt and tights. I was meeting friends at the climbing gym and did not want to miss my train.”
“Kindertransport” by Josh Rolnick
Paper Brigade | 2024
This short story begins “‘Hast du deinen Anhänger?’ the mother asks, her voice low. Do you have your tag?”
“Patrias Futuras//An Infinite Kind” by Romeo Romero
ANMLY | 2020
This poem begins, “I want to know / your mundos alternativos. / The ones we call / patrias futuras / in our sleep.”
“Wetlands” by Moriel Rothman-Zecher
The Common | 2018
This poem begins, “Darkness, my sibling, / I have a story to tell you…”
“Four Glass Cubes (Item Description)” by Bogi Takács
The Baffling | 2022
This short story begins, “The Sárásréti Cubes are some of our most curious acquisitions, created by Ms. Sárásréti, a chartered public accountant employed by local company Silberstein és Tsa., who led a reclusive life, and was during her lifetime not considered an artist of note.”
