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Sam Glauber-Zimra is a PhD candidate in the Goldstein-Goren Department of Jewish Thought at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

This 1939 article and photograph in a Warsaw Yiddish weekly — depicting “a typical female cocaine addict [kokainistke] with a crazed expression in the eyes,” according to the caption — point to the spread of recreational drug use within the Jewish community and its emergence as a subject of interest in the Yiddish press.

Irena Klepfisz is a lesbian poet, academic and activist.  Her collection Her Birth and Later Years: New and Collected Poems 1971–2021 was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in poetry and the winner of the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry from the Publishing Triangle. 

What kind of life will there be after the Resurrection of the Dead?

I may not believe in an afterlife or in resurrections, but I do believe that cultures can be reawakened and revived in new generations.