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Shylock’s Ghost
My son, the movie director, has flown over from LA to shoot a reboot of The Merchant of Venice, at locations in Golders Green and Kenwood. The title has been adjusted accordingly,…
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Happy 90th Birthday, Bernard Kops
A series of new and unpublished poems by Britiain's senior Jewish poet Bernard Kops, on his 90th birthday: POEM ABOUT NOTHING AND EVERYTHING Early morning. I awake
and…
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Fiction: Voices In The Tunnel
I hear voices. That's what you find in this kind of tunnel, a collision of tenors, bass baritones, counter-tenors and contraltos, like the echoes up and down the sewer in The Third…
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Fiction: Millie Makes A Meal Of It
One day Millie felt just too angry. She felt angry with God. It was no one else’s fault. Health and life were God’s gift, and His ways were mysterious indeed, but that was no…
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‘Feet of Clay’ wins first Amy Levy Prize
Feet of Clay, by Beatrice Baltuck Garrard (pictured above), has won the first ever Amy Levy Prize - a new award given to a writer under the age of 30, addressing a Jewish theme. …
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Ask the Moon: New and Collected Poems 1948–2014
It is a kind of grace when life affords a poet the opportunity to give a final shape to his or her creative journey; that rare thing was accorded Dannie Abse, who was able to put…
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A Pious Errand – a short story set in Old Cairo in 1042 CE
Saadya son of Suwayd elbowed his way with a few polite excuse-me’s in Arabic through the crowd of hawkers at the corner of the Street of the Waxmakers in al-Fustat and kept on…
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The Book of Judges
In those days Harvey Kaplan judged all Israel.
He also judged most corned beef sandwiches
to be inadequate
and politicians
to be…
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Four Poems by Primo Levi
February 11, 1946
I looked for you in the stars
When as a child I questioned them.
I asked the mountains for you
But all they gave me were a few moments
of solitude and…
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Inklisch Rekortdinks
Sekschon 1: Inklantd (1938-1980)
London
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Not zo mainy Dais zinz ve arrivink.
Zis grey iss like Bearlin, zis same grey Day…
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