“Hebrew Literature”

A bilingual reflection.

Oct 28, 2024

Jacobs (who, in addition to being a scholar of modern Hebrew literature, is also an accomplished translator and poet) offers a rethinking of the modern Hebrew canon as fundamentally shaped by what she calls a “translational poetics.”

May 03, 2021

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

Jun 23, 2020

Adriana X. Jacobs on her commitment to literary translation.

Nov 12, 2019

In anticipation of its third issue, here is the foreword to issue one of Mikan Ve'eylakh: Journal for Diasporic Hebrew.

Apr 30, 2018

Seelig's new book explores the city of Berlin during the Weimar period as a "transit station" for Jewish literature written in German, Yiddish, and Hebrew.

Apr 26, 2017

Naomi Seidman's new book examines the Ashkenazi Jewish experience of modernization through the representation of changing ideas about love and sexuality in literature. 

Mar 02, 2017

Naomi Brenner's new book complicates the story of the Hebrew-Yiddish "language wars" and argues that Jewish translingualism continues well into the 20th century. 

Sep 18, 2016

Turns out Sholem Aleichem was also a classic writer of fan mail. 

Apr 03, 2016

Readers write in to tell us about the Hebrew-Yiddish writer who was also Anna Margolin's first husband.

Oct 28, 2015

Jacob Steinberg's poetry between Hebrew and Yiddish, between mourning and melancholy.

Sep 24, 2015

Avant-garde Yiddish poet Itzik Manger reinscribes traditional Yiddish cultural practices, such as iconoclastic and anachronistic rewritings of biblical texts, in a politically radical and poetically modernist context. 

Aug 13, 2015