This is a list Leviathan’s Winter 2011 staff.
Random Ramblings X: The Friendly Neighborhood Jew’s Farewell
By Robbie Pleasant Well, dear readers, this is it. This is the last Random Ramblings From Your Friendly Neighborhood Jew that I’ll write. It’s amazing how what started out in my first issue as a quick way to fill my…
Golem Dreams
By Megan Susman I dreamt of a golem, once. In the pre-dawn light, spires of a skeletal city rose above my head, the wind shrieking through gaps of tortured metal and crumbled concrete. On empty streets, roots burst through asphalt…
Short Attention Span Poetry
By Noah Miska Being an Individual (dedicated to you) Individual is having physical form and Your unique thoughts
Jewish Xylem and Academic Phloem: My Life as a Plant Physiologist
By Lauren Spitz After living my entire life in or around Philadelphia (and college in upstate New York), I got accepted to graduate school at UC Santa Cruz. I was excited to relive the epic tale of the forefathers of…
My Jewish Grandfather: The Life of Leo
By Robbie Pleasant Take a moment to think of some historically influential Jews. You may think of Woody Allen, Elie Wiesel, or Albert Einstein. The first person I think of, however, is not anyone you’ll see in history books, but…
(Explanations Are For Cowards)
By Brian Nickerson come up for air together steel toes pickax our shins elbows jackhammer our spines limelight blinding like a prison break teeth grit throat squeeze howl like you mean it and submerge again taste that sweat swamp kick…
Klezmer Revival
By Aaron White An Introduction Klezmer’s Not Dead! It’s merely laying, a beat-up invalid somewhere in a small Jewish neighborhood in New York City. Or so I thought up until about two and a half years ago, when strange whispers…
Native Americans and the Jews
By Ethan Tratner The Mel Brooks comedy film Blazing Saddles (1974) features a Native American chief (played by Brooks) speaking Yiddish. Although this scene is used for comic effect, some people believe that the Native Americans are descended from the…
Maccabiah Games
By Oren Gotesman & Prescott Watson “Hello, and prepare to be defeated,” Erez Shachar, Israel fellow to Santa Cruz Hillel, announced to visiting teams in Hebrew. Sporting an Israeli flag as a cape, he pointed to the Santa Cruz team.…