Issue #9: SITRA ACHRA

Letter from the Editor

Introducing SITRA ACHRA

Essay

Almút Sh. Bruckstein / House of Taswir

What is there to learn? Is it how to lead a brutal war in the desert? No. We have enough of that and there is nothing to learn there.

Digital Collage

Bruise Garden

Liev Sibilla

Translation

Mascha Kaléko: The Poet, The Stream

Tomer Dreyfus & Mascha Kaléko

If she ought to write poetry, she ought to ignore Auschwitz, and that is what she does.

Painting

Deli on the Move

Zoe Kurland

Rosabel swaps out the usual deli fare for an imposing feast of antisemitic iconography and allusion.

Comic

Bad Butcher

David Duvshani & Julia Fermentto-Tzaisler

This is the terrible tale of Shuki the butcher.

Fiction

Over or Under

Jeremy Mann

Sweat gathers along my neck, and the flies are drawn to it. Their legs tickle my neck as they land. It feels nice to be touched.

Video

Remove/Release

Fortune Chalme

Embroidered Textile

Renew Our Days

Danielle Durchslag

Essay

Our Boys: A Travelogue

Shirly Bahar

The foregrounding of Palestinian and Mizrahi characters creates scattered yet effective cracks in the underlying apparatus of the American/Israeli pact.

Installation

Vitraji Vulgarum

Assi Meshullam

Q&A

“Seeing is Not Enough”

Joshua Simon & Liat Berdugo

We must come to accept that images do not speak for themselves.

Painting

Cross-Pollination

Naomi Treistman

Essay

Theremin and the Touchless Touch

Nan Pincus

To hear a false voice and think it real: It’s not the vision of the future or present we yearn for, though it is one that is already here.