Issue #8: CONTRACTING AT THE SEAMS

Letter from the Editor

Introducing CONTRACTING AT THE SEAMS

Video

All Our Departed / El Male Rachamim אל מלא רחמים

Daniela Gesundheit

Essay

Jewish Ugliness

Oscar Schwartz

On Judaica, seltzer, and Moses Mendelssohn.

Mixed Media Sculpture

Plastered Cistern That Leaks A Drop

Maya Simkin

Essay

A Ghostly Seam

Chaya Holch

"I know I was not lied to by omission, misunderstanding, malicious intent, nor has my body chosen this, but the betrayal is in my bones."

Conversation

Searching for Spanier Arbeit

Jacob Karlin & Lily Homer

The only textile technique exclusive to Ashkenazi Jewish production is tightly wound and held close, like a secret.

Trace Monotypes/Paintings

Reading Me

Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo

Conversation

Palestine, Antisemitism, and Germany's "Peaceful Crusade"

Emily Dische-Becker, Sami Khatib, Jumana Manna

“We are the partisans in this discourse. As long as we are here, they lose.”

Video

Holding Onto Nothing to See How Long Nothing Lasts

Elana Katz

Essay

Hallucinatory Ethnicization

Michael Zalta

“The Jew as an ethnic or racial category inherently produces a double-bind.”

Mixed Media Sculpture

lady of the sutures

Daisy Diamond

Essay

Anti-Racism as Procedure

Michael Richmond

"What legitimacy does the British state and its political parties have to arbitrate 'hate?'"

Essay

A Revolution of Silence

Rachel Pafe

"I am drawn more towards another possibility, that Scholem’s lament uses 'inscription' via translation, writing, and commentary in an attempt to productively thwart the steady degradation of Jewish tradition."

Poetry and Photo Scan Collage

Bodiless At The Bimah

Perel and Ezra Benus