Tag: tragedy

Six new poems by Elhanan Nir—published here with English translation and annotation—capture the grief and discontinuity of this moment.

At the height of the cholera epidemic in 1831, Hatam Sofer delivered a timely sermon on a perplexing midrash to Parshat Ki Tavo. The take-home, suggests Elli Fischer, is all-too familiar in the COVID era.