by Jamie Wendt | Mar 5, 2021
The Guests The children press their noses to our bumpy, flawless etrog. They hold it tightly, inhale its zesty scent, pass it on to apparitions over their shoulders. Winged angels – my ancestors – reunite, mingle and drift like holy ushpizin...
by Jamie Wendt | Dec 29, 2020
Ner Tamid after Solomon Iudovin The shoemaker labors over his leather, his work. A singular lightbulb illuminates his hands, like a ner tamid, stitching perfection, a livelihood. The artist considers him an obsession, a relic to carve, “The Past,” Woodcuts, 1928. The...
by Jamie Wendt | Nov 11, 2013
Jamie Wendt concludes her four-part essay “American Jewish Women Poets” with a study of poems by Hadara Bar-Nadav and Sarah Wetzel. Read Part 1 here, Part 2 here, and Part 3 here. –The Editors HADARA BAR-NADAV and SARAH WETZEL In Part One of this...
by Jamie Wendt | Nov 4, 2013
Here is Part 3 of Jamie Wendt’s essay “American Jewish Women Poets,” a four-part series that pursues the question of what makes a Jewish poem Jewish, and of what the relationship is between Jewish identity and poetry. Read Part 1 here. Part 2 of the...
by Jamie Wendt | Oct 28, 2013
What follows is Part 2 of Jamie Wendt’s essay “American Jewish Women Poets,” a four-part series that began last week and will run during coming weeks. Read Part 1 Here. The series will focus especially on work of poets Emma Lazarus (below), Maxine...
