Israeli literature

Will he be placed with Sholem Asch or with S.Y. Agnon?

Jan. 2 2019 12:01AM

On the Surface of Silence.

Alicia Ostriker
Aug. 7 2018 12:01AM

Two new novels offer angles of vision into Jewish experience in the pre- or non-Israeli parts of the modern Middle East.

June 21 2018 12:47AM

It is now the demographic and cultural center of Jewry.

April 20 2018 12:01AM

A Holocaust writer?

Amy Newman Smith
April 11 2018 12:01AM

Private detectives, body-switching, fairies, and Jeremiah’s smartphone.

April 3 2018 12:01AM

Bab el-Wad.

Vivian Eden
Feb. 2 2018 12:01AM

A translator reminisces.

Jeffrey M. Green
Jan. 19 2018 12:01AM

A survivor, he chronicled not just the Holocaust but also anti-Semitism and its spiritual effects.

Ruth Wisse
Jan. 5 2018 12:01AM

He positions himself not as a subtly ironic modernist but as a humble, heartbroken preserver of memory.

Ruby Namdar
July 12 2017 12:01AM

The Homer of Lod.

April 10 2017 12:01AM

A kinship between the artist and the outlaw.

Robert Alter
April 5 2017 12:01AM