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For Tuvik

Best-selling Israeli author Maya Arad’s 2018 novella The Hebrew Teacher (Ha-morah le-Ivrit) opens, rather surprisingly, in English. “It wasn’t a very good time for Hebrew,” the narrator...Read more

César Vallejo’s Trilce is one of the most astonishing works of poetry in the Vanguardista[1] canon and of modernism worldwide. Published in the annus mirabilis 1922, Trilce reconciles formal complexity,...Read more

The poetry book Zeichnungen/רישומים (Drawings, 2018), by Amir Eshel, includes twenty-four bilingual poems, written in Hebrew and German. It thus presents forty-eight poems, for every poem carries with it a double—an...Read more

Dan Pagis’s name is familiar to non-Hebrew speakers because of a single poem, the oft-cited “Written in Pencil in the Sealed Railway Car,” a brief but powerful reflection on the Shoah that has been mined extensively by scholars and educators, both of literature and of the Holocaust. Born in...Read more

From the window of our apartment, I see the sea every day. (Antennas and Sensors, the last line of fragment 2)

Underneath the surface of this line we find the materials of Israel Pincas’s writing. The speaker’s...Read more

The Hour of the Dead Poem

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