Translation
Woe to the Scribes and Pharisees!
John Wilson
May 21 2020 12:01AM
Hersh Nomberg, Zalman Shneur, and the plight of the “plucked” hero.
Ri J. Turner
May 4 2020 12:01AM
And one verse of Isaiah.
Philip Kosloski
March 13 2020 12:01AM
America Seems to Embrace Arab Literary Figures in Inverse Proportion to Their Openness toward Israel
A Columbia professor condemns an Arab author for accepting the Israel Prize.
Peter Theroux
Feb. 5 2020 12:01AM
Alter Leyb Robinson and his friend, Shabbos.
Chen Malul
Jan. 13 2020 12:01AM
Pseudo-archaic poetry, foreign vocabulary, and webs of references.
Edward Greenstein
Sept. 6 2019 12:01AM
Chaim Grade’s Christmas tree.
Barbara Finkelstein
June 27 2019 12:01AM
The Hexapla in the Genizah.
Benjamin Kantor
March 27 2019 12:01AM
Lost in translation.
March 26 2019 12:01AM
Isaiah’s puns.
Robert Alter
March 14 2019 12:01AM
Robert Alter himself conspicuously does not call his own version Jewish in any way. Can we?
Feb. 18 2019 12:01AM
Finished after decades of labor, this one-man English translation is a stupendous achievement. How does it hold up against the masterpieces (and follies) that have come before?
Feb. 4 2019 12:01AM
“Lava its seeds. Atoms/ Fermented forth primevally.”
Jan. 22 2019 12:01AM
