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Author: Gershon Ben-Avraham

Gershon Ben-Avraham holds an MA in Philosophy (Aesthetics). His writing has appeared in Big Muddy, Gravel, Image, Jewish Literary Journal, Poetica, The Rappahannock Review, Tipton Poetry Journal, and others. His short story “Yoineh Bodek,” (Image) earned “Special Mention” in the Pushcart Prize XLlV: Best of the Small Presses 2020 Edition.
  • Publications

Longing for Rain

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on January 16, 2021January 18, 2021

As the Hebrews, formerly slaves in Egypt, are making their way to the land of…

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  • Bible

Befehl ist Befehl

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on January 10, 2021January 12, 2021

In ordinary times, the Kriyas haTorah [“Reading of the Torah”] occurs publicly in the synagogue…

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  • Beginnings

Barkis is Willing

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on January 3, 2021January 4, 2021

I spent many delightful hours one summer reading David Copperfield to Mrs. Vera Wardner Dougan…

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  • Poetry

Silent, upon a Peak in Darien

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on December 27, 2020December 27, 2020

In the summer of 1815, the poet John Keats and his friend Charles Cowden Clarke…

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  • Holidays

Amid the Ruins of All the Rest

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on December 20, 2020

I wasn’t with my father when he died. No one was. In his music school’s…

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  • Illness

Until It Come Out at Your Nostrils

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on December 13, 2020December 14, 2020

Chapter 11 of the Bible book Numbers records a plague experienced by the Hebrews on…

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  • Yiddish

An Unknown Country East of Germany

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on December 6, 2020December 6, 2020

The western boundary of the US State of Mississippi is defined, for the most part,…

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  • Hope

I Was Made in a Secret Place

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on November 29, 2020November 29, 2020

One Friday evening, some years ago, I attended services at a synagogue in Lafayette Hill,…

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  • Bible

Fond Memory Brings the Light

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on November 22, 2020November 25, 2020

Thomas Moore (1779-1852) was an Irish poet. He was a friend and biographer of the…

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  • Literature

An Unbelievable Sound

  • by Gershon Ben-Avraham
  • Posted on November 15, 2020November 16, 2020

My mother was born in Hazard, Kentucky, in the United States on November 14, 1930.…

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