Jewish literature
But a new biography argues that the poet wasn’t very Jewish or even very anti-Soviet.
The eminent writer joins us to reveal the Jewish dimensions of her latest book.
“The honorable title of Jew, of which I am proud.”
Sigmund Freud over the Holy One of Israel.
A story.
A Tel Aviv hipster in King Arthur’s court.
The German-Jewish poet embraced “the Great Aristophanes of Heaven.”
The Lady of Hebrew and Her Lovers of Zion.
Uriel Birnbaum.
Finding the thread that connects Franz Kafka, Amos Oz, Saul Bellow, and Cynthia Ozick.
Kadya Molodowsky’s “humor, irony, and deeply rooted sense of Jewishness.”
The language of Paul Celan.
The master of Jewish letters on what to do if you’re sick of baking bread and reorganizing your closet.
Medieval Spain produced many Jewish geniuses. The poet and philosopher Solomon Ibn Gabirol, born 1000 years ago, wrote poetry that is still sung in synagogues all over the world.
