First Issue

Mikan Ve’eylakh: Journal for Diasporic Hebrew
First issue (Berlin and Paris, 2016). 184 pages. In Hebrew. Price: 10 EUR.

“Mikan Ve’eylakh: Journal for Diasporic Hebrew” is a literary and intellectual journal dedicated to the existence of Hebrew as a world language, scattered across space and time. “Mikan Ve’eylakh” is published in Berlin and in Paris by Medem Library Editions (Paris). Its issues consist of three sections: articles, fiction and poetry. The first issue appeared in June 2016.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Tal Hever-Chybowski

Articles

A Traveling Homeland by Daniel Boyarin
Intellectual Exile: Expatriates and Marginals by Edward W. Said
Rawidowicz in Berlin by David N. Myers
From “One Language” to “One Mind”: The Tongue of the Holy and the Translation of the Torah by Mira Balberg
The Deformed Tongue: Phenomenology of the Holy Language by Elad Lapidot
“Siona Sulamith”: German Hebraism and the Beginning of Modern Hebrew Poetry by Ofri Ilany

Stories

Potato with Sauce by Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
The Thing by Sharon Horodi
Copernicus by Boris Gerus
To Sleep by Isolde Kurz

Poems

Death Fugue by Paul Celan
I Teach the Tree to Meditate by Admiel Kosman
Sun in a Plastic Bottle by Sami Shalom Chetrit
Poems for Harel by Gilles Rozier
To Go Out or Come In by Yaʼar Hever
Europe by Victor Klemperer

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Hommage to the Draft Evaders of the First World War in Hebrew Literature