The Jewish community of Aleppo, Syria, the biblical Aram Soba, is one of the world's most...

In the Greco-Roman period there arose among the Jews a new form for retelling Bible stories...

Uri Nissan Gnessin (1879-1913) is recognized as one of the fathers of modern Hebrew literature whose...

Found in Translation is a collection of the key works of 20th century Hebrew poetry, translated...

Haim Sabato offers another rich historical novel in From the Four Winds, an evocative, rendering of...

Gates of Bronze is a landmark of Hebrew fiction by Israeli novelist Haim Hazaz (1898-1973). In...

Micha Yoshef Berdichevsky (1865-1921) was a Ukrainian-born writer of Hebrew, a journalist, and a scholar. Born...

Gershon Shaked’s history of modern Hebrew fiction traces the emergence and development of a literature “against...

This story is a classic of modern Jewish literature and modern Jewish thought. Since its appearance...

This collection of Brenner's work includes the novella Out of the Depths, as well as One...

Lea Goldberg was one of Israel's most beloved authors. Best known as a poet, she was...

The Brothers Ashkenazi by I.J. Singer is a multi-generational saga set in the tumultuous backdrop of...

The Family Carnovsky by I.J. Singer is a gripping novel that unravels the saga of the...

Abraham Mapu (1808–1867) is one of the first, and finest, Hebrew novelists. Heavily influenced by a...

This representative volume of stories by Hazaz, spanning his career and interests, from the shtetl world,...

To read the poetry of Rivka Miriam is to view the world through the eyes of...

By the time of this death at the age of only 22, MZ Feierberg had written...

It was the autumn of 1926 when Israel Joshua Singer, at the invitation of the editor...

“You need to realize that seventeen-year-olds are capable of more than being lookouts and distributing hard-boiled...