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Alter Brody
The Jew
Like a mad accountant
Trying to make sense out of a senseless ledger
Balancing the Holy Scriptures of his life
With double entry bookkeeping.
With good and with evil.
With reward and with punishment.
Juggling, the accounts
To make debit and credit meet.
To cover up
The latest overdraft on his agony.
But sometimes
In a moment of revulsion
In a moment of insidious sanity
He […]

Herbert Kuhner
I first came upon Alter Brody’s poems when I received a poem card from Anthony Rudolf of the Menard Press, London with The Holy Ledger. This striking poem, which is presented here, started me off on collecting the work of this significant poet and playwright.
I met the American poet George Wallace at a reading […]

LAMENTATIONS
Jews of the Old World in the New World
by
ALTER BRODY
Author of “A Family Album”
Lamentations are four one-act plays about Jews of the Old World who lead lives in the New World.
In Lowing in the Night a married couple who owns a candy store in the Bronx serve children every day but can have none of […]