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Issue #6

Issue #6

TONGUES

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Letter from the Editor
Introducing TONGUES

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Essay
Dispatches
Anthony Russell

In a shul in Miami a woman is asking me from where I got my Yiddish accent. Poland, she declares, answering her own question.

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Illustration
JEW BOY
Tamir Amar Pettet

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Essay
Oxcha, Oxcha
Maor Oz

Oxcha pivots from this Mizraḥi machismo and refuses the Ashkenazi Zionist access to the Mizraḥi male body.

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Video
Hack
Michael Liani

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Illustration
Jaffa My Love — The IsraHell Dystopia
Muhammad Jabali

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Essay
Remember Passing
Jo Mrelli

A Trialogue in Three Acts

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Painting
Confusing Their Tongues
Liora Ostroff

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Daf
Catchat: Following an Interview With a Cat
Hannah M. Bruckmüller, Noa C. Ginzburg, & Michal B. Ron

Actually, the cat, the interviewee, is the main protagonist. Once we tune in to all the voices that can be heard in this conversation, what do we hear?

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Essay
On Diasporic Speech
Leora Fridman

I was tracking not our stories but instead the uses of the word fascination, its roots in the prefix fasci, which has been my project and obsession for a while now.

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Fiction
The Yiddish Terrorist
Claudia Mirelstein

It isn’t true, as some media outlets have suggested, that Jardiel was an Israeli agent. He has nothing to do with the Mossad. This is said because people think Yiddish is the same as Hebrew.

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Essay
Divide, Fragment, Exceptionalize
Omar Zahzah

The Palestinian Authority’s actions and words against alQaws are symptomatic of the greater logic of invisibilized colonialism.

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Conversation
The Taste of Displacement
Molly Theodora Oringer & Michael Rakowitz

"This can of date syrup did more for me than Warhol's cans could ever do."

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Dinner performance
FEAST: Semipermeable Membrane
Ana Ratner & Lily Consuelo Saporta Tagiuri

Obscure. Don’t say too much or they will be scared. Don’t share too much until they are ready to hear, and when they are ready to hear, serve them.

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Essay
Your Love Is Like A River
Jason Lipeles

An hour later, he sat on my kitchen counter in his red bikini-cut briefs and ate custard pie off a cold steel fork. Two weeks later, I was diagnosed with herpes.

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Photography
Doing Right By You
Yael Meiry

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Roundtable
Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism
Gil Hochberg, Zoé Samudzi, Joshua Simon, Robert Yerachmiel Sniderman

Writers, scholars, and curators respond to Ariella Aïsha Azoulay’s new book

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Response
The Wind and Its Hundred Doors
Sophia Terazawa

A response to Tom Haviv's A Flag of No Nation (Jewish Currents, 2019)

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Review
What Makes You Choke
Anh Q Vo

Ita Segev's "Knot In My Name" unravels the messiness and disorientation of traumatic episodes marked under the signifiers “trans woman” and “anti-Zionist Israeli.”

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