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Jewish literature

If Only Philip Roth Had Said: “Damn Right America, I’m Your Jewish Writer and Proud of It!”

Joyless exuberance.

Ruth R. Wisse
June 26 2018 12:01AM

Lessons in Jewish Politics from Three of the 20th Century’s Greatest Works of Jewish Fiction

Babel, Singer, Agnon.

Ruth R. Wisse
June 12 2018 12:01AM

A New Translation of Isaac Babel’s “Awakening”

A teenaged boy skips his violin lessons.

Isaac Babel and Maxim D. Shrayer
May 2 2018 12:01AM

Aharon Appelfeld’s Investigation of the Jewish Psyche

A Holocaust writer?

Amy Newman Smith
April 11 2018 12:01AM

Itzik Manger’s Forgotten Biblical Fantasies

Can Yiddish literature be delightful?

Dara Horn
March 23 2018 12:01AM

A New Work of Fiction Suggests Living Forever Isn’t Everything It’s Cracked Up to Be

Dara Horn’s Eternal Life.

B.D. McClay
Jan. 31 2018 12:01AM

The High Priest Descends on the West Village

An excerpt from The Ruined House.

Ruby Namdar
Jan. 12 2018 12:01AM

Isaac Babel’s Yiddish-Inflected Russian, and the Challenge of Translating It

Transcendent mistakes.

Jake Marmer
Jan. 11 2018 12:01AM

A Major Novel by a Lithuanian Jewish Writer Finally Finds Its Way to English

Shtetl Love Song.

Mikhail Krutikov
Dec. 12 2017 12:01AM

A Hebrew Novel in Which a Mésalliance Serves as a Metaphor for the Jewish Condition in 20th-Century Europe

A tale of coffee and sadomasochism.

Dara Horn
Nov. 29 2017 12:01AM

A Novel about Three Generations of Jews Caught up in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia

The Patriots.

A.E. Smith
Oct. 3 2017 12:01AM

Sisters’ Boy

A story.

Joseph Epstein
May 22 2017 12:01AM

How a Poem Can Get Under Your Skin

Celia Dropkin’s reflection on humiliation has a surprising resonance.

Ruth Wisse
April 26 2017 12:01AM

A Ḥasidic Poet Transcends the Usual Fare of Modern Verse

The two worlds of Yehoshua November.

Sarah Rindner
March 29 2017 12:01AM
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