The Ghost Editor.

And the unprecedented success of Israeli literature in translation.

“I mean religious, not ‘spiritual,’ or ‘transcendental,’ or any other laundered, noncommittal term.”

The Hebrew Teacher.

The legacy of a kabbalist and polymath.

Maya Arad’s good years.

A far cry from the “bland exoticism” of the New York Times.

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.