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Kaddish
Jane Logemann
1995
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Jane Logemann was born in Milwaukee. Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions, including Abstraction & Language: A Dialogue, at La Maison Française, The French Embassy, Washington, D.C. (2003). She has participated in group shows in the United States, Israel, and Spain. Logemann’s artworks are at the Morgan Library, the Jewish Museum, the Yale University Art Gallery, and the British Museum.
The train was beginning to slow down again, and Abraham noticed lights in the distance. He shifted his body only slightly so as not to disturb the boy, and sank back into the familiar pattern of…
Do you deem me to be hard and evil-hearted in that I should hasten to do a match during my period of mourning? Am I to forget the love of the wife of my youth, my pure dove, whom God graciously gave…
Oh my God, my God,
Mighty One of my existence,
have mercy on Your lost son
who has wandered from the ancestral path
and, exiled to cold and unfamiliar climes,
sought to be close to You,
but has not…