
- 64 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Moldovan Hotel
About this book
Moldovan Hotel explores the intergenerational trauma of the Holocaust in Romania through a queer Jewish voice in the Diaspora.
In 2017, Leah Horlick travelled to Romania to revisit the region her Jewish ancestors fled. What she unearthed there is an elaborate web connecting conscious worlds to subconscious ones, fascism to neofascisms, Europe to the Americas to the Middle East, typhus to HIV/AIDS, genocide in Romania to land grabs in Palestine, women's lives in farming villages to queer lives in the city, language to its trap doors, and love to its hidden, ancestral obligations.
With force, clarity and searing craft, Horlick's poems are equal to the urgency of our political moment. "No one ever thinks they might be the dragon," Horlick writes, and yet history repeats its cruelties. This work takes things apart to put them profoundly back together.
"If Leah Horlick's second book invited us to witness, this time she draws from her Jewish heritage and takes us back to show us how to read the landscape and mind-scape and tell us what the texts left out. This is an accounting, a calling, an invocation, a return, a skilful mediation on how to remember when the 'names of the oppressors are blotted out'." — Juliane Okot Bitek, author of 100 Days
"Every poem in Moldovan Hotel is a room thick with ghosts. Here, Horlick takes the language of the past—used to dehumanize and unmoor—and crystalizes it around revelation after revelation. A graceful, striking collection." — Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the Dream House
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Table of contents
- For You Shall Be Called to Account
- In Rumenye Iz Dokh Gut
- A Shtetl, a Shtot
- Annex
- Two Villages
- For Every Animal of the Forest Is Mine
- Hodl
- Curse for Bright Light
- Ritual Instructions for Transnistria
- Learning to Read Hebrew
- You Are My Hiding Place
- Return and Revive Us
- Aquila
- Census
- Moldovan Hotel
- Brief Conversation with Dybbuk, Strada Alexandru cel Bun
- Every Name Means Across the River
- Guilt
- City of New Beginnings
- Marginal Sea
- Customs
- Typhus
- The Spinoza of Market Street
- A Boy, a Girl, a Replacement
- Couple Flying Over Village
- Europe Eats Itself
- Still Learning to Read Hebrew
- Barzel
- Notes
- Acknowledgements
- Bibliography
- About the Author