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Issue

26

Feb 2021 / Purim & Pesach 5781
Preface

CELEBRATING THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY YEAR OF JEWISH FICTION .NET!

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Welcome to our Purim & Pesach issue! In honour of these joyful holidays and the tenth anniversary year of Jewish Fiction .net, we bring you an especially rich issue of Jewish Fiction .net: 23 marvelous stories originally written in Yiddish, Hebrew, and English. These include a story about Purim (“The Feast of Esther”), two about Pesach (“What Elijah Brought” and “Plagued”), and one that is intentionally set in between these two holidays (Serah”). The first two of these four stories take place during Covid.

We also invite you to enjoy Jewish Fiction .net by joining us for our first-ever online program – or, if you missed it, by watching it here: Exploring Jewish Women’s Fiction as Mirrors Into Jewish Women’s Lives. Hosted by the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, Dr. Nora Gold, our editor, discusses some of the women’s writing in Jewish Fiction .net and interviews two authors (one Israeli, one American) from our new issue.

We wish you and yours good health and good spirits, and hope that our new issue will bring you insights, solace, and pleasure.

Happy Purim and Happy Pesach! from all of us at

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Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted: The Ballad of Motl the Cowboy

by Gary Barwin

Good Thing There Aren’t any Children in this Story

by Merav Zaks-Portal

A Friend

by Beth Adelman

The Feast of Esther

by Robert Hersowitz

Umbrella

by Leonid Pekarovsky

New Life

by Amanda Miller

Worthy Editor

by Diane Lederman

Pendulum Swing

by Ezra Solway

Clay Turtles

by Sagit Emet

Added Value

by Vered Singer

The Prodigal’s Bar Mitzvah Speech

by Henry Alan Paper

A Crocodile in the Kinneret

by Sharon Forman

What Elijah Brought

by Carolyn Ivy Stein

The Carpenter’s Sister

by Mira Magen

Serah

by Nora Houri-Haim

Welcome to Otisville

by Jonathan Stone

Annie

by Miriam Kresh

The Interval

by Anna Gotlieb

Belgian

by Jeffrey Wolf

The Jewish Wonder of the Vineland Little League

by Bethanie Gorny

The Women of Tahiti

by Ann S. Epstein

Plagued

by Maureen Sherbondy

The Illusion

by Rachel Luria