Maggid : A Journal of Jewish Literature

by Kramer, Michael P.

• ISBN13: 9781592641314
• ISBN10: 1592641318
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-11-30
• Publisher: Toby Pr

Summary

Maggid is a bi-annual publication showcasing the best new Jewish writing, in all genres, from around the world. The first issue will appear in the Fall of 2004. While the Jewish community world-wide has long enjoyed any number of excellent journals of various political, religious, or philosophical leanings, the founders and editors of Maggid have sensed the need for a new forum for Jewish writers and readers, a forum unencumbered by bias or ideological shading. Maggid is proud to be an open journal, in English, for the literary expression of the multifaceted Jewish experience around the world. Our sole value is artistic excellence; our goal, the transcendent pleasure of reading. Each issue of Maggid presents fresh work by established authors as well as exciting new voices who are forging the future of Jewish letters. The first issue of Maggid celebrates the 350th anniversary of the Jewish settlement in North America and features the work of contemporary Jewish American writers in the United States and abroad.

Table of Contents

Introductory
Peklekh	3	(12)
Michael P. Kramer
Memoirs
From the Other Bank	15	(18)
Andre Aciman
Chapters from a Childhood in Baghdad	33	(16)
Sasson Somekh
Family Sayings, No. 2	49	(18)
Natalia Ginzburg
The Stork	67	(6)
Eva Miodownik Oppenheim
Bread and the Last Seder Night	73	(10)
David G. Roskies
Hatless in Salt Lake City	83	(8)
Mark Rudman
Poetry
What I Could Not Tell You	91	(4)
Myra Sklarew
Thorpe Wood (20 March 1144/24 December 2004)	95	(2)
Richard Chess
Artie Waldorf	97	(2)
Lois Michal Unger
Two Poems	99	(4)
Jeff Friedman
Grieving	103	(2)
Rochelle Mass
Iser, 1899---1964	105	(2)
Esther Altshul Helfgott
My Father Had Many Professions	107	(4)
Howard Schwartz
Fictions
My Father	111	(18)
Aharon Appelfeld
Hans's Death Smile	129	(4)
Etgar Keret
Lilli	133	(6)
David Ehrlich
Memoirs
Kibbutz Love	139	(8)
Jonathan Wilson
Is There a Lifeguard?	147	(22)
Stuart Schoffman
The Fourth Visit	169	(10)
Jane Bernstein
Jerusalem Journal, March 25--May 5, 2002	179	(12)
Shirley Kaufman
Poetry
1948	191	(2)
Nurit Zarchi
Jerusalem Fever	193	(6)
Mark Rudman
After the War and Other Poems	199	(4)
Martin Herskovitz
Landscape of My War	203	(4)
Tami Gilboa
Fictions
The Brothers	207	(16)
Tamar Yellin
Potatoes	223	(14)
Tova Mirvis
I've Got You Under My Skin	237	(20)
Ruth Knafo Setton
Poetry
Two Poems	257	(4)
Sharon Dolin
Two Poems	261	(4)
Paul Hostovsky
from The Alibi Ben-Mino Poems	265	(2)
Rosebud Ben-Oni
Alef Bet	267	(4)
Susan Edwards Richmond
Two Poems	271	(6)
Eve Grubin
Archives
My Grandfather	277	(4)
Moyshe-Leyb Halpern
Memoirs of a Jewish Peddler, Written By Himself	281	(14)
G. Ben-Levi
In Search of a Lost Writer	295	(10)
Maurice Samuels
CODA
Poems on the Art of Living	305
Yona Wallach
Rivka Miriam