The Deronda Review    

a magazine of poetry and thought     Vol. X No. 2 2024

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Nechama Sarah Burgeman, Yearning for Higher Worlds, acrylic on canvas

20 Tammuz 5784

I gazed for a long moment at the deep blue of the face of the petals
And I knew that we shall yet be again
And the vague notes of the flute will yet intertwine with the psalms and prayers
And the shepherds will yet return from the pasture at sunset
Carrying in their hearts the quiet of earth and sky
And the bleating of the sheep
In no danger
And all of being cradled in your arms, O Place of the world
And I knew that man will yet seek to look into the eyes of his neighbor and will find there
Attention, innocence, strength, compassion
Love
                               -- Tziporah Faiga Lifshitz

In this issue:

 I.        The World We Tumble On

Batsheva Wiesner    Eric Chevlen    Len Krisak    Marian Shapiro    Florence Weinberger    Laurel Benjamin    Edward Coletti    Rikki Santer    Amichai Chasson    Stuart Lishan   

II.      Kingdoms

Miriam Fried    Paul Hostovsky   Len Krisak    Harvey Steinberg     Jane Snyder    Mel Goldberg    Nechama Sara Gila Nadborny-Burgeman    Laurel Benjamin    Amichai Chasson

III.    The Life That Is Shared

Harvey Steinberg    James B. Nicola    Haggai Kamrat    Rachel Saidoff   Alex LeGrys    Paul Raboff    Jonathan Chibuike Ukah    Florence Weinberger   Michael Salcman   Rachel Saidoff   Bob Findysz     Julian Alper   Susan Oleferuk    Kelley Jean White

IV.   Existential Questions

Brenda Appelbaum-Golani    Florence Weinberger    Len Krisak     John Delaney    Batsheva Wiesner    Bart Edelman    Yaacov David Shulman    Rachel Kochin    Kelley Jean White     Ruth Fogelman    Yakov Azriel    wf heineman   imri perel    David Weiser    Paul Raboff    Stuart Lishan   Estelle Gershgoren Novak    Eva Rotenberg

V.     The Candle Burns

Haggai Kamrat    Sabina Messeg    Tirtsa Posklinsky-Shehori    Chana Kremer    Sara Tropper    Rumi Morkin    Don Kristt    Andy Oram    Mel Goldberg    Martin Herskovitz    Amos Neufeld    Rikki Santer    Rochelle Kochin    Miriam Jaskierowicz Arman   Lauren Benjamin    Paul Raboff   Donald Mender

VI.   In G-d We Trust

Elhanan ben Avraham    Imri Perel     Sabina Messeg    Haggai Kamrat    Bob Findysz    Hayim Abramson     Michel Krug    Mindy Aber Barad   Roberta Chester    Aviva Golan     Annie Orenstein    Yakov Azriel    Rikki Santer    David Weiser    Esther M. Fein    Richard Krohn    Jane Blanchard    Dawn McCormack    Esther Cameron    Susan Oleferuk    David Olsen    Lois Greene Stone    Paula Goldman     Ashby Neterer    Iona Tor    Oded Mizrachi    Florence Weinberger    T.J. Masluk    Estelle Gershgoren Novak

VII. Past and Future

Henry Summerfield    Eric Chevlen   L. Ward Abel    Richard Krohn    Ivan de Monbrison    Esther Cameron    Florence Weinberger    Iona Toar

In Memoriam

Judih Weinstein o.b.m.

THE DERONDA REVIEW:

Editor: Esther Cameron., derondareview at g mail. Co-editor: Mindy Aber Barad, POB 6709, Efrat.

 

CONTRIBUTORS' EXCHANGE

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Now, my soul

 

they tightened the rope around our neck

they turned our faces black like the rim of a pot

They changed our joy into grief

 

They brought a flood of blood on the earth!

They made us loathe the image of man

 

But now, after the flood

Come, my soul, let us take care of you

Put one part of you on guard

Be a soldier in the bitter battle

 

But with the other parts take up your harp

Be David -- not Saul (the king of suffering)

 

Don't give everything to mourning.

 

                                            Sabina Messeg

                                  translated by Esther Cameron

 

Laila Sara Mazer, Untitled, Watercolor, 2012