by Jamie Wendt | Mar 5, 2021The 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, 2020Ner 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, 2013Jamie 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...