Sublime

My favorite Hebrew novel of all time, A. B. Yehoshua’s 1989 masterpiece Mr. Mani, is a fantastically inventive story that moves backwards in time through six generations of a Jerusalem family while tracing the family’s recurring suicidal gene—until you get to the end, which is really the beginning, when the enduring mystery of the family’s self-des

As Herzl was writing in German in the last decade of the nineteenth century, the best-known Jew in the English-speaking world was Israel Zangwill.

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was reluctant to give up my love of art and literature, music and poetry, most of which had been created by non-Jews and had nothing to do with Judaism.

The evocative name Yung Yisroel signified the “youth” and newness of the group, its desire to be part of the newly forming Israeli culture, and its links to the modernist Yiddish literary movements that blossomed throughout the first half of the twentieth century in Europe and America.