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Issue
Sept 2011 / Rosh Hashanah 5772
Preface

Welcome! With great enthusiasm we begin Year Two of Jewish Fiction .net with this wonderful Rosh Hashana issue. In honour of the High Holydays, here are thirteen beautiful, moving, and thought-provoking stories (originally written in Yiddish, Hebrew, or English) that touch in various ways on the themes of faith, spiritual searching, and/or religious observance.

Enjoy these beautiful and diverse stories. Share them with family, friends, adults and children. Discuss them in book clubs. Read them before shul, after shul, in shul, or in place of shul! – whatever suits your beliefs and religious practice. (As you know, all these stories can be printed off using the icon on the top right of each page.) Follow us on twitterVisit us on facebook. And to you and your loved ones, a happy and healthy year!

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Until the Dawn’s Light

by Aharon Appelfeld

Matisse Has the Sun in His Belly

by Judith Katzir

Harvitz, As To War

by Ben Nadler

The Dormitory of Wandering Souls

by Raquelle Azran

Justine’s Choice

by Fred Skolnik

Menachem Mendel Loses His Faith

by Ellen Golub

Life and Light

by Shira Gorshman

Pink Tzitzis

by Mark Highman

The Forty-niners

by Marianne Langner Zeitlin

Pidyon Haben

by Jonathan Coren

A Perfect Confluence

by Susan Baruch

To Long Meadow

by Charles Walowitz

Summer Honey

by Daniella Carmi