Simon Israel Feuerman
By Simon Israel Feuerman
-
Yiddish World Yankel and Leah (Chapter 5): Glancing at the Eyes of the Gentile Cashier
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. He took up this thread when he called Miriam the shadchan’te the next morning. “I am still not sure about the way she looks,” Yankel told her. “I have no way of knowing. I can’t even remember from date to date what she looks like. I don’t think I…
-
Yiddish World Yankel and Leah 4: Observing the NYC Skyline – And Her
This originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. To read the previous chapter. “I’m available,” Leah said brightly. “Good,” he said, feeling an instant resistance to her enthusiasm. “I’ll see you at eight o’clock?” This time Yankel was able to borrow a different car. It was an almost-new Oldsmobile 98 Regency. “Beautiful car,” Leah said when he…
-
Yiddish World Yankel and Leah (Chapter 3): Learning Torah is Easier Than Dating
This originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. To read the previous chapter. As soon as they settled at their table, Leah looked at him and asked: “What’s your father’s relationship with God?” She sat facing him in some colorful thing, something fuzzy it seemed. His eyes roamed the room and then settled back on his tea…
-
Books Yankel and Leah (Chapter 2): Awkward First Date
This originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. To read the previous chapter. And so after some perfunctory small talk, an appointment was arranged. Yankel would meet with someone called Leah Spielman (he scribbled this into his small appointment book), daughter of Abe and Helen Spielman, refugees from the Old World, now living in Flatbush. “Appointment”…
-
Culture Yankel and Leah (Chapter 1)
This originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. Yankel walked up the stairs in the dormitory, to light the Chanukah menorah. He lit a match but it blew out. He lit another one. Outside, a mix of rain and snow was falling. Inside, the ancient cast-iron radiator hissed. Chanukah was late this year – the end…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
Fast Forward DNC finding: Biden’s Israel backing cost Harris votes for president
- 2
Antisemitism Decoded After Minneapolis, a YouTuber comes for Jewish ‘welfare queens’
- 3
News What We Know About Jeffrey Epstein’s Childhood
- 4
News An Arizona cemetery now requires mourners to leave before burial. A rabbi plans to sue.
In Case You Missed It
-
News Reza Pahlavi, Iran’s exiled crown prince, has a plan for his people’s future — if they’ll have him
-
Culture Before I became an orthodontist, I was my good friend Neil Sedaka’s saxophonist
-
Opinion A war with Israel, not for Israel
-
Fast Forward Many American Jewish groups throw support behind joint US-Israeli strikes on Iran
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
