Youval Shimoni’s novels are dense, difficult, and demanding—and they may be the greatest literature Israel has ever produced
For every day of Sukkot, we’re publishing a text by a different Zionist pioneer. Today, a seminal figure in Hebrew literature: Joseph Hayyim Brenner
The late, spaced-out Israeli artist would have been 84 this week
Today is Ephraim Kishon’s yahrzeit. He deserves to be remembered as one of the greats.
A glimpse into the late Israeli writer’s magical workshop, as his Hebrew editor illuminates the master’s attention to language and craft
The great Jewish writer on his linguistic and literary heritage, the Bohemian way, and the catastrophic modern break between Jews old and new
The café as ‘safe space’ in interwar Vienna, in David Fogel’s Hebrew classic, ‘Married Life’
How an 18th-century Eastern European kabbalist Jew produced one of the first Hebrew bestsellers
Why Israel’s most prestigious book award just shut out Hebrew writers who live outside the Jewish State
The 1939 short story appears in Tablet for the first time in English translation
For Yom Kippur, fiction by Nobel laureate S.Y. Agnon, in a first English translation
A veteran practitioner of the art of translation considers the challenges—and successes—of Hebrew literature
A Holocaust survivor wrestles with the angel of history on the beach in Tel Aviv
With a rediscovered 1930s novel, Viennese Romance, Austrian writer David Vogel becomes a key figure in the creation of Modern Hebrew literature
