Welcome to this brilliant, 7-language issue of Jewish Fiction .net! Here you’ll find 12 terrific stories, originally written in Danish, Polish, Russian, Yiddish, Hebrew, and English, and – for the first time – Albanian! This issue also includes an Agnon story that has never before been published in English (“Women’s Wisdom”) and, in honour of the upcoming holiday, a Pesach story (“The Haggadah of the Chinese Jews”).
In Issue 33:
| Bubbie’s Halushkes | – a story by Elliott B. Oppenheim |
| Crumbs of Hope | – a story by Mark Russ |
| Frozen Spring - Jerusalem Returning | – a novel excerpt by Entela Kasi (translated from Albanian) |
| Golem | – a novel excerpt by Maciej Płaza (translated from Polish) |
| Longing | – a story by Ber Kotlerman (translated from Yiddish) |
| The Haggadah of the Chinese Jews | – a story by Ida Shear |
| The Jewish Stone | – a story by David Shrayer-Petrov (translated from Russian) |
| The Lake of Galilee | – a story by Ephrat Huss |
| The Origin of Migraines | – a story by Maurice Krystal |
| Things Disappear | – a story by Nina Foighel (translated from Danish) |
| Wall | – a story by Ela Moskovits-Weiss (translated from Hebrew) |
| Women’s Wisdom | – a story by Shmuel Yosef Agnon (translated from Hebrew) |
As we contemplate the meaning of freedom this year in the context of the worrying strife in Israel, we hope that this new issue of Jewish Fiction .net will be thought-provoking and pleasurable for you and that it will enrich your celebration of this Festival of Freedom. Wishing you and yours a joyful and meaningful Pesach,
Chag sameach v’kasher! from all of us at
