Click Here to Read: A Polish Christian Writes the Great Jewish Novel: A 700-page Polish novel is all the rage in Israel, but can it heal the rift between Poles and Jews? BY Shalom Goldman on September 23, 2021.
Category: Literature
The Etrog: Fiction by Nobel laureate S.Y. Agnon, for Sukkot
Click Here to Read: The Etrog: Fiction by Nobel laureate S.Y. Agnon, for Sukkot in a new English translation by Jeffrey Saks BY S. Y. Agnon on the Tablet Website on September 25, 2015.
Jewish colonies and settlements. Richon le Zion. Avenue of date palms in Richon Image: Matson Collection. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commmons. 
POETRY MONDAY: September 6, 2021
Good morning, Everyone,
Happy Post-Labor Day!
I wish I could mandate that you must be vaccinated and masked to read this column, but since I can’t I can only hope that those of you who can will be if you plan to venture outside once again –and especially, inside.
In times like these, one of the best, most soul-healing things we can do is read poetry.
Our poet today is one I have wanted to introduce for some time. Here she is: 
Mihaela Moscaliuc
This lovely poet learned English in school in Romania, from a teacher who lent them books in English such as “Catch-22,” “Lord of the Flies” and “The Catcher in the Rye.”
Amazingly, he also had his students listen to records with The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Bruce Springsteen and Leonard Cohen – just like so many American teenagers.
Mihaela came to the U.S. when she was twenty-four to pursue graduate studies and since then has published a number of successful poetry collections. Among them are Cemetery Ink (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015) and Father Dirt (Alice James Books, 2010). She was the translator of Liliana Ursu’s Clay and Star (Etruscan Press, 2014) and Carmelia Leonte’s The Hiss of the Viper (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2014) and is the editor of Insane Devotion: On the Writings of Gerald Stern (Trinity University Press, 2016). With her husband, the well-known poet Michael Waters, she co- Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: September 6, 2021
Jonah
With the Olympics now happening in Japan . . .
…Now’s the perfect time to look back on this tale of the 2008 games in China
. . . Below the Line in Bejing
A Psychoanalytic Novel
. . . of Olympic Proportions!
by Richard Seldin
(See IPBooks.net and Click Search for “Seldin”
OR go to: ipbooks.net/product/below-the-line-in-beijing-by-richard-seldin )
On Isaac Bashevis Singer’s 30th yortsayt, hear his speech about Yiddish
POETRY MONDAY: August 2, 2021
Good morning, everyone. It’s not often that I introduce a brand-new poet to you in this column; in fact, this may be the very first time.
Felicity Sheehy’s name was sent to me by one of her former teachers, who offered high praise, so I took a look for myself and found it to be well-deserved. Her chapbook (and only book so far), “Losing the Farm,” published this year, won the Munster Literature Centre’s international chapbook prize. Her poems have appeared in The New Republic, The Yale Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Narrative, Blackbird, Shenandoah, The Adroit Journal, Alaska Quarterly Review, Colorado Review The Common, Literary Matters, and elsewhere. A distinguished publication record indeed for one so young (full disclosure: I didn’t ask her age).
Her work has won an Academy of American Poets Prize the Jane Martin Prize, and scholarships to Bread Loaf, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and Community of Writers. Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: August 2, 2021