Hebrew literature
Y.H. Brenner “sanctified his life through his death and his death through his life.”
S.Y. Agnon
July 20 2021 12:01AM
Sholem Aleichem meets Quentin Tarantino.
June 11 2021 12:01AM
A defense.
Jessica Cohen
March 4 2021 12:01AM
The cadences of the Talmud left their mark on Yiddish, and Israeli, speech patterns.
July 8 2020 12:01AM
Zalman Shneour.
Mikhail Krutikov
May 13 2020 12:01AM
S.Y. Agnon’s “Mistake.”
March 6 2020 12:01AM
S.Y. Agnon, Solomon ibn Gabirol, and “The Sign.”
Stuart Schoffman
Oct. 4 2019 12:01AM
Three literary responses to one biblical book.
June 7 2019 12:01AM
The great Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik’s “Scroll of Orpah” retells the story of the book of Ruth from another perspective.
June 7 2019 12:01AM
Ancient Israelite authors “totally eclipsed their neighbors.”
Robert Alter
Dec. 20 2018 12:01AM
To the great Hebrew writer S.Y. Agnon, balance is all—and imbalance, as in the novel Only Yesterday, a devastating calamity.
Dec. 10 2018 1:02AM
From Iowa to Silicon Valley.
Sept. 28 2018 12:01AM
A Rich Brew.
Jeffrey Yoskowitz
Sept. 28 2018 12:01AM
Reb Aryeh’s etrog.
Haim Be’er
Sept. 26 2018 12:01AM
