Kenneth Sherman

Kenneth Sherman is a two-time winner of the Canadian Jewish Book Award. His most recent book is the poetry collection, Meditation on a Tooth.

A Comma in the Blood
How Natalia Ginzburg’s doctrine of ‘universal compassion’ empowered the exhausted morality of our times, in which it is both easier and more righteous to side with the losers
byKenneth Sherman
Robbie Robertson’s Tailor
How my father and his brothers suited up Levon Helm, Rick Danko, and the rest of The Band
byKenneth Sherman
Leonard Cohen at Queen’s Park
Music made Cohen rich and famous, but it deprived us of the brilliance of his poetry
byKenneth Sherman
Isaac’s War
Before dying in the trenches, the Bristol-born, Lithuanian Jewish painter Isaac Rosenberg became the greatest English war poet that nobody’s ever heard of
byKenneth Sherman
Neo-Poland: An Original Poem
Today on Jewcy: Grappling with the controversial new law
byKenneth Sherman
Kafka’s Gay, Hasidic Hebrew Teacher
Was Georg Mordechai Langer’s the first modern attempt to reconcile homosexuality and Judaism?
byKenneth Sherman
Homecoming
Yuri Suhl’s One Foot in America, a long-lost novel of Jewish American immigration that reads like a more Dickensian take on Henry Roth’s Call It Sleep, has been republished and deserves a new audience
byKenneth Sherman