Nice one, hope you do more. Wondering what you mean by ‘it’s hard to publish short stories with Jewish themes that aren’t completely laudatory’. Seems to me that we see non-laudatory all the time these days.
There's a good deal of modern Israeli poetry on Jewish themes. Plenty of films here, like those by Mordechai Vardi. Tons of music. Projects like this from Kol Haot https://www.kolhaot.com/copy-of-studio-stories-2020 ....
"They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom / for trying to change the system from within." -- Leonard Cohen
This is of course great. But a few key points were missing, two of which of course are rooted in the text itself, that could have made it even better:
- Isaac agreeing to be killed despite his objections. (Or perhaps not - this is the one that isn’t made explicit in the text)
- “uh dad, we already knew God was going to make you into a great nation. Nothing changed?”
- Isaac, of course, clearly doesn’t go home with his father, and settles with his mother in Hevron.
Nice one, hope you do more. Wondering what you mean by ‘it’s hard to publish short stories with Jewish themes that aren’t completely laudatory’. Seems to me that we see non-laudatory all the time these days.
I see it in nonfiction, but very rarely in art. Curious if your experience has been otherwise!
There's a good deal of modern Israeli poetry on Jewish themes. Plenty of films here, like those by Mordechai Vardi. Tons of music. Projects like this from Kol Haot https://www.kolhaot.com/copy-of-studio-stories-2020 ....