The section “Poetry” includes poems of Grigorii Falkovich, Boris Khersonsky, Ilona Taikh, and Alex Zarahovych.
In the “Prose”, the reader will find fragments from Inna Lesovaia’s novel Amber Room, libretto and songs from musical Mottle by Gelii Aronov, stories by Yosl Birstein (translated from Yiddish), and by Amos Oz (translated from Hebrew).
The section “Criticism and Publicism” presents a research work by Johanan Petrovsky-Shtern on Jewish-Ukrainian identity of Gryts Kernerenko, Hanna Arendt’s work on the banality of evil, Joanna Lisek’s work on the poet and feminist Hanna Levin, and Gennady Estraikh’s work on Soviet Yiddish in 1920s. In the interview with Tomasz Lec by Elżbieta Ficowska, the latest monument to the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto is described. (more…)