Posting about the bookish trip to Israel this morning made me think about ZEEK, a pretty great Jewish literary magazine (in print or online). There's really nothing else quite like it out there.
That's not to say that there aren't all manner of Jewishy magazine that like to consider themselves literary, but ZEEK actually manages to maintain a fairly high standard of literary quality (I'm something of a snob when it comes to litmags)… but isn't afraid to get into real Jewish topics.
So for people who like their Judaism to be a little artsy-fartsy, or people who like their contemporary culture to be a little bit shtetl… ZEEK is a good read. Where else are you going to find new translations of poetry by Rav Kook (a 19th century Hasidic dude) alongside new poems by Ilya Kaminsky (perhaps the youngest poet-hipster in the USA)?
Their mission:…We welcome the heretical, honor the sincere, and are generally bored by in-jokes, apologetics, and irony. We value independence, courage, and thoughtfulness, and publish stories which say something new about that which is meaningful. Above all, we believe that an intelligent, articulate Jewish sensibility is one that speaks from its place of particularity in a far wider conversation — and true conversation requires both a fearlessness to create and an openness to change.
Bonus: for those of you who write, it’s a good place to submit your work!
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