In the Age of Missiles, Defensible Borders Are More Important Than Ever
Israel’s unwritten national-security doctrine.
July 19, 2021
A story.
While the Yiddish writer and World War II partisan Avraham Sutzkever (1913-2010) is known primarily as poet, he also wrote numerous stories in prose. One such work—translated into English by Zackary Sholem Berger under the title “A Black Angel with a Pin in His Hand”—describes a fellow poet Sutzkever knew in Vilnius before the Holocaust. It begins thus:
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Collapsing currency, shortages, and political crisis, brought on by Hizballah.
“Too many of those types of Jews.”
A story.
Esther Bejerano, in memoriam.