“Utterly different from anything published in the Jewish world until then.”

“More than any other country, Israel must live.”

A great Yiddish writer reflects on what, exactly, the novel is for.

The Idiom and the Oddity.

Guy Gavriel Kay created Devin Bar Garin, but couldn’t mention Ben-Gurion.

“Being Jewish, Sefton Goldberg . . . ”

Sasson Somekh vs. the “woke” version of Mizrahi history.

A simple protagonist and a very, very complicated people.

Dark days for Jews in literature.

Disillusionment with Communism went hand in hand with an embrace of Jewishness.

A new volume highlights the work of Saul Bellow’s friend and lover.

Wandering Jewesses.

Civilization’s weather vane.

Did his deracinated outlook subvert his own literary career?