Joseph Jackerson’s work reflects his sensibility as a response to distress and pain encountered by him both on both personal and collective level. Many of his works express an apocalyptic vision of the world.
Joseph Jackerson (born June 2, 1936, Leningrad) is a Russian and Israeli painter. He studied art at the Leningrad Academy of Fine Arts. Jackerson immigrated to Israel from the USSR in 1973. His works were exhibited in many shows in Israel, the United States, Russia, Switzerland, and Australia. In addition, he designed sets for many theater productions and taught painting and drawing.
The first bilingual collection of Ukrainian verse by Borys Khersonsky. In these poems, heaven is often the setting: Jews who perished during pogroms and in the Holocaust continue with their daily routines, whereas on earth, displacement has become a constant, and collective memory has been cleansed of the Jewish past.
A collection of very short stories. In Russian.
Six Trains of No Return collects twelve short stories and novellas that examine immigrant sagas and dislocations.
