Hillel Halkin’s lifetime of thinking about language, Zionism, and writing pays rich dividends in his ‘indispensable’ new collection of essays devoted to the writers who created modern Hebrew literature out of nothing
And the rabbi who helped to guide him
Israeli Jews and diaspora Jews: one people divided by a common tongue
Differentiating between the sacred and the profane
The world’s most important leftist intellectual talks about his Zionist childhood and his time with Hezbollah
