The Pomegranate Pendant Stefan Zweig Kevin Lowry

Kevin Lowry

wind down two wars

of creating makeshift solutions to half-understood problems

Many of us in other parts of the world are praying fervently that these calls will be heeded

while laying their claim as the coldest clique to ever walk the streets

The Pomegranate Pendant Stefan Zweig Kevin LowryWhen Mazal and Ezra ben Yichya embarked in 1882 on their long journey from Sana'a to the Holy Land, their young hearts were filled with dreams of the glory they were sure awaited them in Jerusalem. But those dreams were quickly dispelled by the reality they encountered: dark, towering walls of stone and a community of pious but impoverished Jews with customs foreign to them. How would the ben Yichyas find their place in this new world peopled by