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Etan Nechin is online editor of The Bare Life Review: A Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Literature. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Zyzzyva, World Literature Today, Jewish Currents, Ha’aretz, among other venues.
The city is running out of graves, and against the backdrop of the Israel–Palestine conflict, burial is often a political matter.
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