
Oberon’s Jewish Pedigree
How Shakespeare’s fairy king is descended from Judah Maccabee. Read the essay at Mosaic.
How Shakespeare’s fairy king is descended from Judah Maccabee. Read the essay at Mosaic.
Two of the most highly praised novels of 2018, Dara Horn’s Eternal Life and Sarah Perry’s Melmoth, feature a Jewish woman born in …
My picks–a novel, a poem, and a history of American sci-fi–in good company. Read the full list chosen by Mosaic …
New books by Maya Arad and Galit Dahan Carlibach portray Israelis making their way as best they can in America …
Two new novels offer angles of vision into Jewish experience in the (pre- or non-Israeli) parts of the modern Middle …
Simplicity, in poetry, is complicated. How do we translate the poet Rahel for English language readers? Read the full essay …
Judas, the latest novel by Amos Oz, is ostensibly an allegory about both the state of Israel and the betrayal …
He is heir to the Islamic Caliphate, the Holy Roman Empire, and the Jewish kingdom of Septimania–but does he get …
Reubeni, Prince of the Jews, a surprisingly contemporary 1925 novel by Kafka’s close friend Max Brod, reminds us of the perils …
One brother emigrated to Israel, the other remained in the United States. Both became poets, searching for words the other …
If you are a lover of Israeli music then you certainly know Avraham Halfi (1906–1980), though perhaps not by name. …
In a dark Yiddish masterpiece that predated the Holocaust by two decades, the poet Uri Zvi Greenberg envisioned the annihilation …
Israeli reviewers have repeatedly invoked the word “ambitious” to describe Reuven Namdar’s Hebrew novel, Habayit asher neḥerav (“The House That Was …
A powerful new film, available online, shows us the man who more than any other shaped the modern Hebrew language. A …
In awarding the 2014 Nobel Prize for literature to Patrick Modiano, a French novelist whose father was Jewish, did the …
This is Jerusalem in every Man, A Tent & Tabernacle of Mutual Forgiveness, Male & Female Clothings. And Jerusalem is …
The true story of Max Eitingon is still being written. A member of Sigmund Freud’s inner circle and financial supporter …
I like the way Tamara Faith Berger writes sex, although the sex she writes is always of the glowering, desperate …
I have fond if vague memories of the 1952 film “Ivanhoe,” with Elizabeth Taylor in the role of Rebecca, and which …
The poet devours God in “Ants and Sharks,” the twenty-sixth poem in Tomasz Róźycki’s sonnet sequence Colonies, displacing God at …