Meytar Moran, The Crater, from the Black Magic series (2014–2015), MEYTARMORAN.COM
Jewish literature, Israeli literature, Hebrew literature. From a distance they might seem like three circle…
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Contemporary Hebrew Literature
Photo by Samuel Scrimshaw / Unsplash [Untitled] We lived on the edge of a poisonous swamp black alligators bathed in it every morning the exhaust tubes clamored and at noon we…
Photo by Myrtle Schilling / Unsplash I’ve seen it more than once: the raised axe swings and chops into the last remnant; Lying still in the dirt is the moving, glowing crown. – Rahel,…
Caption We received our Canadian citizenship at the immigration office between Costco and the highway. For the ceremony we were asked to turn off our phones. We raised our right hand. Swore alle…
Meytar Moran, The Stage, from the Black Magic series (2014–2015), meytarmoran.com In a field near the Gaza Strip, a missile strike, visions, and onlookers searching for an explanation.…
Translation from the Hebrew By Steven Cohen
Photo by Barbara Zandoval on Unsplash A Poem for Nitzan I smuggled you across the border, that no hand of those who find joy in their labor might touch you no hand of those dealing in blood, t…
Painted Cats by sjrankin is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0 Hoping battles knowing in this three-act seduction (spoiler alert: there’s a cat in the story). 1. Try to seduce someone. How…
Paul Klee, Angelus Novus, 1920, oil transfer and watercolor on paper, 31.8 x 24.2 cm, Israel Museum, Jerusalem Angelus Novus On Friday nights, when the family’s asleep and…
Illustration by Maya Ish-Shalom Chickens, from Bessarabia to New York City, provide a generational through-line in these four vignettes. Popol Twenty-three years after my…
Winter 2021
Ismail Kadare, winner of the 2020 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, headlines the Winter 2021 issue + a special section on contemporary Hebrew literature gathers eleven writers from Israel and beyond. Fiction, poetry, essays, interviews, dozens of timely book reviews, and booklists make the latest issue of WLT, like every issue, your passport to great reading.