Poemas de Refael Azran
Desierto Esta ciudad es un juguete Esta ciudad es Gaudí Esta ciudad es un chicle elástico Esta ciudad es un plástico Esta ciudad es un furgón en la plaza Policías en la esquina Prostitutas en…
Category Archives: Literature & Arts
The Meiri: the universalist of Perpignan
Introduction Who is Menachem Meiri? Until a few generations ago, many erudite rabbis would have been at a loss to answer. Indeed, if the Meiri (1249-1315) was an influential commentator and decision-maker in 13th-century Catalonia,…
Urdimbre
Raquel creció en el Buenos Aires de los años 60 en una familia judía no practicante y de izquierdas, en la que los rituales y las tradiciones no ocupaban precisamente un lugar destacado. En su…
Anti-Semitism and Western Metaphysics
One of the more transparent and pathetic strategies of damage control that has emerged in the wake of the Black Notebooks’ publication is the contention that, given the proportions and extent of the current historical…
Exceptional moments. Séfer 2017.
Dear friends, Today we celebrate the second edition of the Jewish Book Festival, Séfer Barcelona, and at the same time we can say that we are living in exceptional times. We must confess that those…
Interview with David Albahari*
David Albahari (b. 1949) is a Serbian writer who has lived more than 10 years in exile in Canada. He went into exile because the former Yugoslavia was torn apart by ethnic war. Albahari left…
Encounter at the crossroads of Europe – the fellowship of Zweig and Verhaeren
Stefan Zweig, whose works passed into the public domain this year in many countries around the world, was one of the most famous writers of the 1920s and 30s. Will Stone explores the importance of…
Grossman Revisited (English Version)
Oh God said to Abraham, “Kill me a son” Abe says, “Man, you must be puttin’ me on” God say, “No.” Abe say, “What?” God say, “You can do what you want Abe, but The…
The Zaddik
The notions of singular leadership and the place of the zaddik in Jewish cosmology are traced from first century rabbinic sources down to rival Hasidic claims in the mid-nineteenth century. The problem with the image…
Gente Estranha: An Interview with Melech Mechaya
La música klezmer està una altra vegada d’enhorabona, Melech Mechaya acaben de publicar nou disc replet de sons vius i carregats d’energia. Després d’estar de promoció per Espanya i vinguts recentment del Internationales Klezmer Festival…