Hebrew literature
His work reminds us that fiction can be entertaining, and perhaps should be, even when it is serious.
A novella by the late Israeli writer.
Haim Hazaz’s “The Sermon.”
Y.H. Brenner “sanctified his life through his death and his death through his life.”
Sholem Aleichem meets Quentin Tarantino.
A defense.
The cadences of the Talmud left their mark on Yiddish, and Israeli, speech patterns.
Zalman Shneour.
S.Y. Agnon’s “Mistake.”
S.Y. Agnon, Solomon ibn Gabirol, and “The Sign.”
Three literary responses to one biblical book.
The great Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik’s “Scroll of Orpah” retells the story of the book of Ruth from another perspective.
Ancient Israelite authors “totally eclipsed their neighbors.”
To the great Hebrew writer S.Y. Agnon, balance is all—and imbalance, as in the novel Only Yesterday, a devastating calamity.
