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Jordan Kutzik

Jordan Kutzik is a staff writer and social media coordinator at the Yiddish Forward. Besides the Yiddish and English editions of the Forward, his journalism and translations have appeared in Hayden's Ferry Review, "Have I Got a Story for You" a Norton Anthology of fiction from the Yiddish Forward, Pakn Treger, Lebns-Fragn and Yidishe Heftn. A 2015-2016 translation fellow at the Yiddish Book Center, he is currently completing a translation of collected short fiction and novellas by Boris Sandler.

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Loyt di Leyeners: Responses to “New Yiddish Poetry from the Israel-Gaza War”

The Editors, Tal Hever-Chybowski, Jessica Kirzane, Jordan Kutzik, Lawrence Rosenwald and Eva Mroczek

We are pleased to share these responses in order to broaden conversation about poetry in the midst of disaster.

Texts & Translation

די גרינע עפּעלעך פֿון גן־עדן

Green Apples from the Garden of Eden

Boris Sandler

Translation by Jordan Kutzik

From Boris Sandler’s 1997 collection Toyern (Gateways): a story in which an immigrant’s reminiscences are so vivid they all but blur the border between dreams and time travel.

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