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Jewish literature

A New Translation of Isaac Babel’s “Awakening”

A teenaged boy skips his violin lessons.

Isaac Babel and Maxim D. Shrayer

May 2 2018 12:01AM

Aharon Appelfeld’s Investigation of the Jewish Psyche

A Holocaust writer?

Amy Newman Smith

April 11 2018 12:01AM

Itzik Manger’s Forgotten Biblical Fantasies

Can Yiddish literature be delightful?

March 23 2018 12:01AM

A New Work of Fiction Suggests Living Forever Isn’t Everything It’s Cracked Up to Be

Dara Horn’s Eternal Life.

B.D. McClay

Jan. 31 2018 12:01AM

The High Priest Descends on the West Village

An excerpt from The Ruined House.

Ruby Namdar

Jan. 12 2018 12:01AM

Isaac Babel’s Yiddish-Inflected Russian, and the Challenge of Translating It

Transcendent mistakes.

Jake Marmer

Jan. 11 2018 12:01AM

A Major Novel by a Lithuanian Jewish Writer Finally Finds Its Way to English

Shtetl Love Song.

Mikhail Krutikov

Dec. 12 2017 12:01AM

A Hebrew Novel in Which a Mésalliance Serves as a Metaphor for the Jewish Condition in 20th-Century Europe

A tale of coffee and sadomasochism.

Nov. 29 2017 12:01AM

A Novel about Three Generations of Jews Caught up in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia

The Patriots.

A.E. Smith

Oct. 3 2017 12:01AM

Sisters’ Boy

A story.

Joseph Epstein

May 22 2017 12:01AM

How a Poem Can Get Under Your Skin

Celia Dropkin’s reflection on humiliation has a surprising resonance.

Ruth Wisse

April 26 2017 12:01AM

A Ḥasidic Poet Transcends the Usual Fare of Modern Verse

The two worlds of Yehoshua November.

March 29 2017 12:01AM

Haman and Mordecai Visit the Shtetl

A Purim story.

Sholem Aleichem

March 9 2017 12:01AM

A Novel of the Jews of Baghdad and Budapest—and the Horrors of Mid-Century

Nine Love Letters.

Marina Gerner

March 7 2017 12:01AM