Samuel Thrope
Samuel Thrope is a doctoral student in Jewish and Zoroastrian studies at U.C. Berkeley. His work has appeared in Tablet, Mima’amakim, and ZYZZYVA.
Fiction & Poetry
Jonathan Kis-Lev
The Metamorphosis: Jonathan Kis-Lev's Jerusalems
Kis-Lev’s images depict Jerusalems which have become mundane, detached from heaven, sundered from holiness. Only in such a Jerusalem could mosque, synagogue, and church equally and peaceably divide the horizon.
Social Justice
The Israeli Republic by Jalal Al-E-Ahmad
In this 1964 text translated by Samuel Thrope, an Iranian de Toqueville considers the Jewish state as a model for bourgeois theocracy. A warning to the left about religious coalitions, this essay also offers a refreshing reversal of U.S. obsessions with Islamo-fascism.
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