Ayelet Tsabari writes a ​“strange, unex­pect­ed post­script” to her essay ​“A Sim­ple Girl,” excerpt­ed in the 2019 issue of Paper Brigade.

Mak­ing songs and poems about Torah.

On Com­mu­nist Yid­dish children’s books in the Sovi­et Union and Unit­ed States.

An exam­i­na­tion of the lit­er­ary influ­ences behind the film, a decade after its release.

When a text dis­ap­points us with an anti-human mes­sage, we will avoid the sin of pre­ma­ture for­give­ness, of let­ting the text off the hook too easily.