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Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction Contest: Why We Still Write Holocaust Fiction

June 2, 2022
By Moment
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Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction Contest presents:

Authors Ruby Namdar (The Ruined House), Ruth Franklin (A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction) and Moment editor-in-chief Nadine Epstein (Elie Wiesel: An Extraordinary Life) discuss the enduring power–and perils–of Holocaust fiction.

Prior to the conversation, the 2020 Karma Foundation Short Fiction Contest winners read excerpts from their stories:

1st place – Omer Friedlander, The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land

2nd place – Linda Brettler, Private

3rd place – Rona Arato, Polonaise

Arts & Culture, Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction, Summer Issue 2021

Fiction | The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land

August 21, 2023
By Omer Friedlander
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Simcha was the man who sold air from the Holy Land, not to be confused with those unimaginative con artists who sold oil from the Oily Land or water from the Dead Sea.

2020 November/December, Arts & Culture, Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction

Fiction | Call Me Gefilte

July 31, 2023
By Phil M. Cohen
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His children relocated him from the small Greenwich Village apartment where he and his late wife, Susan, had raised their family, to the Scarsdale Sinai Home, for a short time on the assisted living unit and then to the Alzheimer’s floor.

2019 September/October, Arts & Culture, Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction

Fiction | The Eleventh Happiest Country

July 31, 2023
By Joan Leegant
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Roi’s old friend from the army, Tal, had been an actor before he got religious, and now he wanted to make another film and wanted Roi to do it. An action flick.

Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction, Summer 2019 Double Issue

Fiction | Goldfader In Full

July 31, 2023
By Jed Phillip Cohen
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Jed Phillip Cohen’s fiction short story is the winner of 2018 Moment Magazine Karma Foundation short fiction competition.

Arts & Culture, Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction, Summer 2019 Double Issue

From Book to Screen: A Conversation with André Aciman & Debra Granik

December 23, 2021
By Moment
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Is the movie as good as the book? Often, the answer to this perennial question is a flat “No.”

Arts & Culture, Fiction, Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction

Fiction | The Mark

July 31, 2023
By Judith Jacobson
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This story is the second-place winner of the 2017 Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction Contest. Founded in 2000, the contest was created to recognize authors...

2017 November-December, Fiction, Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction

Fiction | The Garden of Evil

July 31, 2023
By Michalle Gould
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“Have you heard about the movie?” Dorota asked. “What movie?” said Sylwia. Why, she thought, am I always the last to know?

2016 November-December, History, Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction

Fiction // Turboatom

July 31, 2023
By Steven Volynets
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I wanted to tell my father that the fish salad was shining, but he was asleep, calling my name in long somniloquous moans. I stood at his bedside, the shape of our room made visible by the scarce lights of the Marshal Zhukov Street. Slava! My name rose from his lungs…

2016 January-February, Arts & Culture, Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction

Vanished Jews of Hetta

July 31, 2023
By Jason K. Friedman
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In the second place-winning story from the Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction Contest, a Manhattan publicist returns to his sleepy Southern hometown and attempts to revitalize its Jewish life.

2015 November-December, Fiction, Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction

Fiction // Summer is For People

July 31, 2023
By Moment
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Lev returns from the park eager for breakfast. He pulls his chair across the tired linoleum and calls out, “Won’t you join me? Your show can wait.” He hates the way he sounds, like a grown man coaxing a cat from a tree…

2015 May-June, Fiction, Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction

Fiction // Lead Apron

July 31, 2023
By Moment
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I am 22 and pregnant, which means I’m not a teen statistic, but you can chalk me up to the idiot percentages who think they know what they’re doing with a condom. When I was a kid, I planned my future around a timeline like the one I’m in. Then again, when I was a kid I planned to explore the earth by sea. Now there are no explorers left: satellites can read your watch from space and planes can take you across the planet in a day…

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