Böcker av Zackary Sholem Berger

The pandemic is and was a shattering event. We need multiple artistic instruments to try and pick up the pieces of the mirror broken on a stone. In Yiddish and English, Berger uses lyric, found poetry (in the form of interviews), and translation to assemble a picture of what happened, both to us and with us. There is tragedy here, there is a story of the cliff we fell off, and there is (somehow) joy in the ruins. Whether you will see your pandemic here depends on who you have been with, who you have listened to, and who you have been.

One Nation Taken Out Of Another is a joyride through the Five Books of Moses on the back of a strange chimera - with an American head, a Yiddish heart, and all manner of multicultural, bassackward, and wandering limbs grafted on to the whole. The included poems are in English, Yiddish, and both. It's midrash and whimsy, and an exploration of Bible, tradition, exile, redemption, and mystery.