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Wu Wei Eats an Egg: Poems by Lucas Hirsch

Wu Wei Eats an Egg: Poems by Lucas Hirsch

Translator: Donna Spruijt-Metz Jewish Poetry Project Wu Wei Eats an Egg introduces fascinating Dutch poet Lucas Hirsch. Alternatingly enraged at and bemused by the 21st century, with its traps of bourgeois excess, addiction, and...

Hunt­ing in America by Tehi­la Haki­mi

Hunt­ing in America by Tehi­la Haki­mi

Translator: Joan­na Chen An award-winning, thrillingly subversive novel about an Israeli woman who moves to America, takes up hunting, and is drawn into a world of predator, prey, and dark attraction An Israeli woman...

Happy New Years by Maya Arad

Happy New Years by Maya Arad

Translator: Jessica Cohen After emigrating to the United States in the mid-1960s, Leah maintains her connection to Israel by writing an annual letter on the Jewish new year to her old friends from a...

The Feeling of Iron by Giaime Alonge

The Feeling of Iron by Giaime Alonge

Translator: Clarissa Botsford From the horrors of WWII to the spy games of the Cold War: a haunting tale of survival, vengeance, and the enduring shadows of history  Shlomo Libowitz and Anton Epstein, two...

Zion Square: poems by Maxim D Shrayer

Zion Square: poems by Maxim D Shrayer

Jewish Poetry Project “The music rips the skein of being. The ghost is proudly silent.A triumph of difference. Discordant and defiant.” Maxim D. Shrayer’s voice speaks across generations. With a stubborn belief that poetry...