Exploring Israeli literature in English translation. Host Marcela Sulak takes you through Israel’s literary countryside, cityscapes, and psychological terrain, and the lives of the people who create it.
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Where Jesus walked, told through 'Arabesques'
As Christians all over the world celebrate Christmas Eve tonight, we travel to the Galilee through the eyes of the novelist Anton Shammas, a native of this region of Israel. In honor of Nazareth, the childhood home of Jesus, host Marcela...
On Hanukkah, kindle a small pillar of fire
Last night in Israel we celebrated the first night of Hanukkah: The festival of lights, or the festival of the dedication of the temple. From dreidels to doughnuts, host Marcela Sulak takes us through the holiday's customs and traditions, and then...
Yona Wallach's Hebrew "peeks through the keyhole"
Yona Wallach was born in 1944 in Tel Aviv and never travelled outside Israel's borders. Eleven collections of her poetry have been published during her lifetime and posthumously, and many of her songs have been put to music. She also wrote...
Ronny Someck, a poet of Tel Aviv
Host Marcela Sulak traces the life of poet , from his origins in Baghdad to Israeli transit camps to Tel Aviv, through his poetry. Life in the transit camps in the 1950s was difficult, as described in the poem 'Poverty Line,' in which Someck...
Sayed Kashua: An examination of Arab-Israeli identity
Sayed Kashua is perhaps most known for the wildly popular satirical television series he created, Arab Labor ( a phrase that in Hebrew - avoda aravit - usually implies 'shoddy or second-rate work'). The show holds a mirror up...
Jews and Arabs driven apart in 'The Swimming Race'
Benjamin Tammuz’s sculpture 'Memorial for the Pilots' rises above Independence Park, north of the Hilton Beach Hotel on Tel Aviv's promenade. It’s a tall, stylized bird dedicated to the pilots of the 1948 war. Tammuz wasn’t just a...
Nisim Aloni's terrifying 'To Be a Baker'
Nisim Aloni was born into a poor family in the South Tel Aviv neighborhood of Florentine in 1926. He enlisted in the Notrut, a Jewish militia operating as an auxiliary police alongside the British, and he fought in the 1948 war. Though Aloni is...
'Valley of Strength': Feminism in the Zionist narrative
Poet, novelist, and playwright Shulamit Lapid was born in Tel Aviv in 1934. She is the mother of Israeli Finance Minister Yair Lapid. All of her novels, with one exception, feature female protagonists, and most address social issues and ethnic...
The Israeli detective novel
Israelis have not been writing detective fiction for very long; Batya Gur’s 1992 The Saturday Morning Murder: a psychoanalytic case was the first Israeli crime novel to reach a wide American Audience. In her 2005 obituary, the New York Times...
'The Hilltop' shows us the view from both sides of the separation wall
Assaf Gavron's novel The Hilltop follows the lifespan of an illegal Israeli settlement in the West Bank which, as in a fairytale, comes into being ostensibly to satisfy a woman and child's innocent longing for salad greens. The narrative follows two...