In Ashkenazi folklore, the fruit was a charm for fertility.

Jacob Dinezon’s The Dark Young Man.

An admirer of Marc Chagall and a muse to Bruno Schulz.

The great poet safely traversed a minefield by counting in poetic meters.

A simple protagonist and a very, very complicated people.

Once a bustling, but unliterary, Jewish community.

Pinḥas Kahanovitsh, the Concealed One.

Chaim Grade’s Christmas tree.

A great Yiddish poet’s past and future.

A Letter to Mama.

Post-Holocaust towns populated by biblical ghosts.

The Encounter.

“Lava its seeds. Atoms/ Fermented forth primevally.”