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
The Israeli author and ‘conscience of his nation’ won for his novel A Horse Walks Into a Bar
Tablet Original Fiction: All things decay
The Israeli authors were nominated for their novels A Horse Walks Into a Bar and Judas, respectively
Gutfreund, who died last week at the age of 52, wrote his first book, ‘Our Holocaust,’ in 2001
The Tablet contributor’s new memoir hits the shelves on Tuesday
Read the two writers’ correspondence about this summer’s war in Gaza
The Israeli novelist says we should use the word ‘compromise,’ not ‘peace’
The Israeli’s magnum opus, ‘Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow,’ is so good, it should have existed
The 83-year-old novelist died of bone marrow cancer Saturday
Suddenly, A Knock on the Door, the acclaimed Israeli writer’s new story collection, offers wry, coy looks at the paradoxes of life in the Jewish state
Humming with immigrant voices, the coffee houses of Jerusalem fueled the imagination of a young refugee writing his way into a new world.
