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Jewish literature

Was Franz Kafka a Jewish Writer? An Israeli Court Said Yes

A legal case and its literary implications.

Adam Kirsch

Aug. 14 2018 12:01AM

If Only Philip Roth Had Said: “Damn Right America, I’m Your Jewish Writer and Proud of It!”

Joyless exuberance.

June 26 2018 12:01AM

Lessons in Jewish Politics from Three of the 20th Century’s Greatest Works of Jewish Fiction

Babel, Singer, Agnon.

June 12 2018 12:01AM

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.

April 26 2017 12:01AM