For our first issue of Fragments, we chose the topic of freedom because it lies at the heart of the present struggle. The efforts underway to restrict our freedoms are themselves cloaked in the language of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom from government interference, freedom to own guns, freedom from “wokeness.”
Anna Wrobel (she/her), daughter of postwar refugees, is an American historian, teacher, poet and Holocaust Studies educator whose poems and essays appear in journals including Lilith and Jewish Currents.
Joules Huang Duze (they/them) is a writer, educator, and Doer.
Jonathan Backer is an attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division.
Zach Luck is a father of four children. He lives in Ohio. This is the first poem he has published.
Ethan Aronson (he/him) is the Campaign Director of Never Again Action, a Jewish-led mobilization against the persecution, detention, and deportation of immigrants in the United States.
Lewis R. Gordon is Professor and Head of the Department of Philosophy at UCONN-Storrs, where he also has an appointment in Judaic Studies and Global Affairs.
Fragments is a seasonal multimedia publication that lifts conversations about the intersection of human rights, politics, and Judaism.
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