Joe Grim Feinberg - Der Spekter

black and wide drawing of the rural priest Mattathias slaying a Jewish apostate

History

For a Bundist Chanukah (the Best-Worst Jewish Holiday)

We can think of the struggles that might have been left out of history, so that new struggles can make history today.

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Poetry

Ungodly Psalms: Protocols of the Youth of Zion

Resolution 1a. Whereas we have lived long enough in the world of our elders, as laid out in Appendix A, the book of Ungodly Psalms; whereas, moreover, we have grown tired of reading and living the fire and floods, the ruin, wandering, exile, ash and mud, etc.; be it here

Dramatic oil painting depicting the siege and destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans, with the city partially on fire.

Poetry

Ungodly Psalms: Minor Prophecy of Joseph during the Reign of Benjamin

You think the enemy is writhing in pangs of death, but those are birth travails

Sepia image of a rocky port on the red sea, with two men sitting in the foreground.

Poetry

Ungodly Psalms: Covenant of the Distant Cousins of Israel

Editor's note: this is the third poem in the series "Ungodly Psalms" by Joe Grim Feinberg. Don't miss the previous parts in this series, "Report from the Cowardly Scouts on the Condition of the Land" and "Ten Insubordinations." Our god

A drawing based on a concrete impression of a ship at war.

Poetry

Ungodly Psalms: Report from the Cowardly Scouts on the Condition of the Land

This is the second part in a series of poems by Joe Grim Feinberg titled "Ungodly Psalms." Click here for the first part in the series. Lord General! The land up there is fine but deadly. Its valleys may be moist and soft and sweet. Milk indeed flows

A detailed black-and-white woodcut depicts Moses receiving the Ten Commandments from God, surrounded by angels blowing horns.

Poetry

Ungodly Psalms: Ten Insubordinations

The Tanakh is a patchwork of many texts. Why not add another?