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‘Rabin, The Last Day’ Makes Oliver Stone’s ‘JFK’ Look Stone-Cold Sober

Amos Gitai’s polemical new documentary—opening in U.S. theaters Friday—on the 1995 assassination that rocked Israel sacrifices facts in favor of sensation

By J. Hoberman · January 26, 2016

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Aharon Appelfeld Creates a Jewish Saint in ‘Suddenly, Love’

In his new novel, the great Israeli writer conjures a slow-burn connection between an innocent caretaker and her aging charge

By Adam Kirsch · May 1, 2014

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Fiction and Essays

On the Edge of Our City

A Holocaust survivor wrestles with the angel of history on the beach in Tel Aviv

By Aharon Appelfeld · September 13, 2013

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Child of His Time

Holocaust survivor Aharon Appelfeld, Israel’s greatest living writer and author of the new Until the Dawn’s Light, retains his capacity for wonder

By Leslie Epstein · November 16, 2011

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On the Bookshelf

New fiction from Israel

By Josh Lambert · April 12, 2010