by Frances Brent (New Haven , CT )
7 July 1941
Riga
With difficulty Lev Aronson carried his cellos, bows, and cases up the stairs of the main post office. In a notebook, many years later, he wrote: “the typical wide stairs of old Russian government buildings, cold cement and steep steps, hard to handle with two [...]
Entries from July 2009
July 27, 2009
The Lost Cellos of Lev Aronson
July 20, 2009
A child is waiting for you in Australia
by Nava Semel (Tel Aviv, Israel)
translated from the Hebrew by Dan Gillon
I am on my way to meet my child in Australia.
I’m going to visit Iyar my son who, for the last three and a half years, has been living on the other side of the world. Whoever it was that said, if only half [...]
July 13, 2009
Searching for Melvin
by Patty Baumann (Hillsdale, NJ)
I never met my cousin Melvin. The first I heard of him was when I was little, maybe 4 or 5, playing in the Bronx apartment of my great-aunt, Lena, and her husband, Morris, back in the 1950’s. I can picture the adults socializing; my parents, my grandmother, her three sisters [...]
July 6, 2009
From Jew-ish to Jewish
by Rachel Reeves (Brighton, UK)
I feel frustrated at the moment. I’m sitting here on the train, wishing I had my laptop instead of having to resort to my illegible scrawl. This will be my ‘nth’ iteration of my innermost thoughts about my journey to becoming Jewish. My initial version was written in the time running [...]
