Culture

Yael Unterman reviews Diana Lipton’s From Forbidden Fruit to Milk and Honey.

In this timely article, Wendy Zierler examines how Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai's "Beterem" can provide readers with the inspiration they need leading up to the Days of Awe

Daniel Klein on how violence in the Bible plays out in the writings of Shadal and Gabriel Gárcia Márquez

For Parshat Zakhor, this short story by Shira Eliaser richly imagines the world of King Saul and the clandestine encounter that brought Haman’s Amalekite ancestors into the world.

The question of whether or not your writing is Jewish is not up to you, because writing ultimately belongs to the reader. Krauss’ avatar answers Ozick perfectly: “Jewish literature would have to wait, as all Jewish things wait for a perfection that in our hearts we don’t really want to come.” In the end, perhaps all we can do is kvetch and vacillate between different answers to the question of what is Jewish literature—because, of course, the answer was never the point.

Judah Kerbel Reviews Deborah E. Lipstadt's Antisemitism: Here and Now.

Yehoshua November's poem movingly and thoughtfully portrays the challenges and pleasures of Chassidic life.

Jeffrey Saks explores the works of the blind Israeli poet, Erez Biton.

A passionate sonnet by Yocheved Friedman in memory of the Rav, zt'l.

With masterful translation, Tzvi Novick offers a glimpse of Israeli culture to our English readers.