Alex Averbuch

Mar 25, 2024 | fundrazr.com | Alex Averbuch

Alex Averbuch hasn't added a story. Writings from the War is a volunteer project aimed at collecting, preserving, and disseminating testimonials of Ukrainians about their experience of the Russian-Ukrainian war. Documenting thousands of testimonials (texts, videos, and photographs) will provide the world audience with a panoramic, firsthand picture of the Ukrainian tragedy and allow those affected by it to be heard.

Dec 7, 2023 | tabletmag.com | Alex Averbuch

what is it like when the resurrection comesbut there are no resurrectedwhen the Exodus is so closebut Egypt is everywherewhen there is so little oilbut countless endless dayswhen you strain to see the silhouettesbut your eyes are drowning in tearswhen you were supposed to be back tomorrowbut today is already yesterday.

Nov 9, 2023 | tabletmag.com | Alex Averbuch

I forgave myself for my Ukrainian great-grandfather who joined a pogrom against my Jewish great-grandfather I forgave my Polish great-grandmother who tore at the braids of my Jewish great-grandmother I forgave myself for my moskal great-grandfather who took the last bit of food from my Ukrainian great-grandmother I forgave my Jewish great-grandmother who informed on my Ukrainian great-grandfather they are all here now at the last supper of my body leaning on the table each of them pulls at my...

Jul 20, 2023 | wordswithoutborders.org | Cory Oldweiler |Chiara Marchelli |Alex Averbuch

Soon after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a steady stream of talking heads, heads of state, pundits, and proles began justifiably praising the resilience of the Ukrainian people. This determined defiance is nothing new. In the past quarter century alone, Ukrainians have combatted Russian and Russian-backed forces both on the battlefield, for nine years and counting, and in the political arena during three revolutions.

Jul 13, 2023 | wordswithoutborders.org | Iryna Shuvalova |Wesley Lewis |Alex Averbuch

This poem consists of summaries of the sixteen-year correspondence of the author's grandmother with her friends and relatives after she emigrated from Ukraine to Israel. This excerpt of a larger poema consists of found language taken from summaries of the sixteen-year correspondence of my late grandmother, Ludmila, conducted with friends and relatives after she emigrated from Ukraine to Israel in 2002.