Israel upon Danube. Episode 1
"- Zionism as an idea comes from Vienna. It was an Austrian journalist, Theodor Herzl, who launched it. That’s why, with the agreement of our...
Category: Imaginary
In Imaginary, we move beyond simply describing reality to begin to transform it. It includes fictional texts, stories, and fragments, as well as political utopias and bold hypotheses about what Europe, Jewish life, the diaspora, Israel, and minorities might look like tomorrow. Here, Jewishness is not only an object of analysis, it becomes material for invention: ways of replaying exile, reconfiguring politics, reopening general issues of integration at the national, international, and transnational levels – in short, of thinking about other forms of community and justice. Imaginary welcomes these attempts – serious or playful, melancholic or joyful – that take the risk of projecting other possibilities where the present seems to offer only dead ends.
Longing
"Longing" was first published in Yiddish in the New York online magazine 'Yiddish branzhe'. It is the epilogue of a novel in Yiddish that Ber...
Fault Lines
"The discordance between them, latent since her American years, became manifest when, the previous year, she published in a “Jewish magazine” - as he had...
Two pigeons
"I follow him inside the synagogue. Sit down on one of the wooden benches. My legs feel heavy as lead and my arms are moving...
