Arts & Culture
When people find out that I teach Hebrew literature, they invariably remark, “Oh, you must be fluent.” I’ve now been working hard at it for many decades, and I’m still not there.
The Homer of Lod.
A kinship between the artist and the outlaw.
Septimania.
If you read one 750-page book this year, it should be this one.
The two worlds of Yehoshua November.
The latest novel by Amos Oz, Israel’s best-known writer, is ostensibly an allegory about both the state of Israel and the betrayal of Jesus. What’s it actually about?
Once upon a time, Jews lived here.
Paul de Man, the man.
Where does the Yiddish word narishkayt come from?
A novel for our times, and an exposition “more gripping than anything on Netflix.”
Cecil B. DeMille’s absent heirs.
In a new lecture series, a master teacher shows the enduring relevance of the great 19th-century novelist’s Daniel Deronda.
Jerusalem syndrome.