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Alan Mintz, z“l, was the Chana Kekst Professor of Hebrew Literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary.

Why does the Hebrew novel have a problem with speech? Alan Mintz on the non-dialogical and the monological in modern Hebrew literature.

Ofer Dynes is the Leonard Kaye Assistant Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literature, Columbia University. He is a co-founder and organizer of the Hebrew Lab Faculty Seminar, a New-York based workgroup for scholars in Hebrew Literature.

A selection of short texts shedding light on the biography of artist Chaim Soutine, translated and with an introductory essay by Ofer Dynes.