Remembering David Shrayer-Petrov.
The legendary author joins us to talk about her new short story, about a search for the reason why a 13th-century Jewish man became a Catholic priest.
And the sound of S.Y. Agnon’s own voice.
Mazaltob.
Revisiting a talented pre-war Austrian Jewish writer.
A visit to Drohobych.
Leo Perutz’s By Night Under the Stone Bridge.
A museum exhibit, a fire, and S.Y. Agnon.
Daughter of History.
An ex-Soviet writer gets a feeling of déjà vu.
“You know what’s worse than a microaggression? A macroaggression.”
A visit to Joseph Roth’s hometown of Brody.
“The Story of My Family.”