Responsa
Bad Memory
Germany is acclaimed for its efforts to atone for the Holocaust. But its method of repudiating the past has become a tool of exclusion.
Office Hours
Shatzi Weisberger
“Dying is a very mysterious thing, and I want to experience it.”
Elena Stein
Chevruta
Must We Have Children?
An investigation of the biblical injunction to “be fruitful and multiply.”
Laynie Soloman
in conversation with
Sophie Lewis
Fiction
The Theologian of the Abyss
“He claimed that God did not exist, and if He did exist, must be an idiot.”
Daniel Guebel
Introduced and translated from the Spanish by
Jessica Sequeira
Art
Open
The images that comprise Open evoke the almost spectral omnipresence of a malevolent state power.
Morgan Ashcom
Introduced by
Zoé Samudzi
Review
Shall We Not Revenge?
In his polemic against Germany’s “Theater of Memory”—which relegates Jews to bit parts in the nation’s redemption narrative—poet Max Czollek may have traded one melodrama for another.
Sanders Isaac Bernstein
Review
Family Ties
For novelist Rona Jaffe, the drive for independence was inculcated in the intimate sphere of the family, where care could look an awful lot like coercion.
Jess Bergman
Review
Exile in the Interior
In his recently reissued Hebrew novel, Anton Shammas uses the arabesque’s infinity to contest the Zionist enclosures of Palestinian life.
Isabella Hammad
