LONG READS → EYES THAT SAW ANGELS Issue 854 · March 23, 2021

Eyes That Saw Angels

Would we spend the rest of our lives wondering why we’d hadn’t contacted the myriad of magical figures living in our midst?

Eyes That Saw Angels
Would we spend the rest of our lives wondering why we hadn’t contacted the myriad of magical figures living in our midst? Would we ever be able to document those last memories of life in the prewar years?


There is nothing I can say or do

 to make things change

Time has a way of passing by so fast

Like a fleeting shadow no one will recall

The faces of the past

—“Memories,” composed by Abie Rotenberg

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t was during the height of the coronavirus that despondent messages began to cross the Atlantic, between our respective locations of New York and Beit Shemesh. Had we missed our last opportunity?

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