Israel in Translation

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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Eine durchschnittliche Folge dieses Podcasts dauert 7m. Bisher sind 332 Folge(n) erschienen. Dies ist ein wöchentlich erscheinender Podcast.

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Yaakov Shabtai's vernacular


Discover Yaakov Shabtai’s single-paragraph novel, Past Continuous, the first truly vernacular work in the Hebrew language. Find out how to build community housing out of shipping crates. Books: Past Continuous. A Novel. Translated Dalya Bilu....


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 May 21, 2014  7m
 
 

A poet beloved by one and all


The poet Zelda Schneersohn Mishkovsky was Amos Oz's first love, first cousin to the Lubavitcher Rebbe, and beloved by all Israelis, religious or secular. Book: The Spectacular Difference: Selected Poems. Trans. Marcia Falk. Cincinnati, Hebrew Union...


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 May 14, 2014  6m
 
 

Only Yesterday


 Remembering Israel’s Nobel Laureate in Literature, Shai Agnon, and his masterpiece, Only Yesterday (Tmol Shilshom), which describes the founding of Tel Aviv and the first building outside the Old City of Jerusalem.Playlist: Rita - Take me...


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 May 7, 2014  7m
 
 

On love and spices


A teenaged spice-shop owner and professional scribe, Shmuel Hanagid wrote such scintillating and literary love letters that a client hired him for bigger and better things. His work was lost for nearly 1,000 years and rediscovered only in the...


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 April 30, 2014  5m
 
 

A poet tough as nails


Hannah Szenes was only 23 years old when she was executed before a firing squad in Nazi-occupied Budapest. She was attempting to rescue Jews who were about to be deported to Auschwitz. In her short life, she became a poet, farmer, and...


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 April 23, 2014  6m
 
 

On love and spices


A teenaged spice-shop owner and professional scribe, Shmuel Hanagid wrote such scintillating and literary love letters that a client hired him for bigger and better things. His work was lost for nearly 1,000 years and rediscovered only in the...


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 April 16, 2014  6m
 
 

Know your roots


The Founder of Hebrew Spanish Poetry, Dunash ben Labrat, also made your ulpan studies possible. He was the first to distinguish between transitive and intransitive verbs in Hebrew, and to catalog verbs by the 3-letter roots. His smart, talented wife...


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 April 9, 2014  6m
 
 

I have been planted with the pines


Lea Goldberg is the best-selling poet in the history of Israel. Many of her poems express both a love of the land of Israel, as well as nostalgia for her abandoned home in the diaspora. Do you know which university department she founded and chaired?...


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 April 2, 2014  7m
 
 

The Andalusian poet who turned complaining into an art form


Moshe Ben Ezra was a fine Andalusian poet, as well as the chief of the Granada police. Listen to a couple of poems from the guy who made complaining a form of art.   Book: The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian...


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 March 26, 2014  6m
 
 

There was a dream; it passed


Hayyim Nahman Bialik was one of the pioneers of Hebrew poetry.  Hear the National Poet of Israel sung by Arik Einstein, who created the"Soundtrack of Israel." Find out about the fascinating Bialik house, and his songs and activities for...


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 March 19, 2014  7m