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Poetry The Acrobat: Selected Poems of Celia Dropkin Celia Dropkin; Faith Jones, Jennifer Kronovet, and Samuel Solomon, trans.
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God Posted by Nat BernsteinFourteen years after its original publication in English translation, Etgar Keret’s seminal collection of short stories was reissued… Nat Bernstein October 29, 2015
Essay 7 Surprises in the English Translation of the Torah Earlier this week, Aviya Kushner wrote about the “smashing, positively dashing spectacle” of modern theater performed in Hebrew. She is the author of The Grammar… Aviya Kushner September 10, 2015
Essay ‘My Fair Lady’ in Hebrew? Aviya Kushner is the author of The Grammar of God, a memoir of her Journey into the Words and Worlds of the Bible. She will be blogging here all week for the Jewish… Aviya Kushner September 8, 2015
Excerpt “If you think Cairo’s any better, my dear, you’re mistaken.” Yitzhak Gormezano Goren August 12, 2015
Interview Interview: Mark Polizzotti on Translating the Work of Patrick Modiano Patrick Modiano, who won the 2014 Nobel Prize for literature, has recently seen a flurry of attention here in the U.S., where he had been relatively unknown until… Beth Kissileff March 6, 2015
Essay Paperless Love: Translating Yiddish Letters Earlier this week, Sarah Wildman shared a short reading list and an interesting letter that didn’t make it into her book, Paper Love: Searching for the Girl My… Sarah Wildman October 30, 2014
Essay Leah Goldberg, Me, and the Search for a Title for my New Book Nora Gold’s book, Fields of Exile, is the first novel about anti-Israelism on campus. It was picked by The Forward as one of “The 5 Jewish Books To Read in 2014,″ and… Nora Gold June 2, 2014
Interview An Interview with Shimon Adaf by Beth KissileffI’ve had the privilege of interviewing a number of writers in the past few years; Shimon Adaf is easily one of the most versatile, brilliant and… Beth Kissileff November 7, 2013
Interview Interview with Liad Shoham by Elise CooperLiad Shoham is Israel’s number one best-selling crime author, and now his latest book, Lineup, has been translated into English. Shoham has been called… Elise Cooper October 22, 2013
Essay New Vessel Press: Great Books in New Vessels by Maron L. WaxmanShortly after the launch of their first list, I talked with Michael Wise and Ross Ufberg about their new publishing company…New Vessel Press, Michael… Maron L. Waxman October 15, 2013
Interview Interview: Ofir Touche Gafla by Beth KissileffJewish Book Council recently had the chance to speak by Skype with Ofir Touché Gafla, whose first novel, The World of the End (Tor Books), was… Beth Kissileff August 27, 2013
