Preface To Issue 6

Welcome to this very exciting issue of Jewish Fiction .net! It is with great pride that we share with you an excerpt from the first-ever translation into English of Agnon’s renowned novella, Ve'haya He'akov Le’mishor, as well as four other important first-time translations, from Hebrew, Russian, and Romanian. In addition, we bring you eight exceptional works of fiction written in English, coming from Australia, Canada, and the United States.

 

The theme uniting this issue is Family, which includes all the uniquely deep, passionate, and complex relationships between family members that this implies. Here you have stories about:

 

Mothers and daughters –“Beautiful World,” “I Was There,” “A Tape Recording of Helen

      Gilderstein Speaking”

Grandmothers and granddaughters – “Explosions”

Mothers and sons – “There’s No Heaven For Slaves”

Fathers and sons – “Say You Remember”

Fathers-in-law and daughters-in-law – “Say You Remember”

Parents and children – “Me, A Novel,” “Mourning,” “The Waiting Room”

Parents and adult children – “Nu Yu”

Couples without children –“And The Crooked Shall Be Made Straight”

The birth of a child – “Place of Birth: Report on the State of the Union”

Cousins – “Cousins”

 

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