Hebrew + Yiddish literature

Book Reviews

• Dovid Bergelson: Descent
  - a modernist shtetl novel
• Ariel Bloch, Chana Bloch: The Song of Songs*
  - a compelling translation of the great Hebrew love poem
• Jacob Glatstein: The Glatstein Chronicles*
  - an American Yiddish poet visits Poland in 1934
• Sayed Kashua: Let It Be Morning
  - everyday life confronts geopolitics in an Arab Israeli village
• Dovid Katz: Words on Fire
  The Unfinished Story of Yiddish
• Dov-Ber Kerler: The Politics of Yiddish
  Studies in Language, Literature and Society
• Aaron Lansky: Outwitting History
  How a Young Man Rescued a Million Books and Saved a Vanishing Civilisation
• Der Nister: Regrowth
  Seven Tales of Jewish Life Before, During, and After Nazi Occupation
• Igal Sarna: Broken Promises: Israeli Lives
  - fourteen short biographical vignettes
• A.B. Yehoshua: Mr. Mani*
  - linked stories about a Jewish lineage
• S. Yizhar: Khirbet Khizeh*
  - evicting a Palestinian village in 1948
• S. Yizhar: Midnight Convoy and Other Stories
  - alfalfa, the 1948 war, and childhood inspiration

See also: Israel + Palestine | Judaism