Meir Buzaglo

Oct 10, 2024 | jewishreviewofbooks.com | Jeremy Borovitz |Akiva Schick |Meir Buzaglo

Five years ago on Yom Kippur, my wife and I traveled with twenty community members from our home in Berlin to the city of Halle. We wanted to enliven the services of the smaller East German community, which was mostly inhabited by older Jews from the former Soviet Union. Some eighty years ago, Halle had been home to a sizable synagogue, which was destroyed on Kristallnacht. Now, we gathered in a former funeral home.

Apr 17, 2023 | jewishreviewofbooks.com | Kate Elinsky |Simcha Gross |Shai Secunda |Meir Buzaglo

Kedei she-haMelach Yitpazer 'al ha-Ahava (Rub Salt into Love) Hakibbutz Hameuchad 91 pp., 74 NIS In his new collection, Rub Salt into Love, the Israeli poet Almog Behar writes of the tumultuous movement between Hebrew and Arabic in his family history, inner world, and his life as a writer: This stanza from the poem “The Babies in the Refugee Caravans” was originally composed in Hebrew and Arabic, with the Arabic written in Hebrew letters, presumably for the sake of readers unschooled in...