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Book Review: A.B. Yehoshua’s “The Tunnel” — A Serious Romp about an Aging Brain

Exuberant is the right word for A.B. Yehoshua’s new novel, not only because of the story’s pile up of characters and events, but also for its prose.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: A.B. Yehoshua, Hebrew, Israeli writing, The Tunnel

Book Review: “The Story of Hebrew” — A Surprise Comeback

I cannot recall reading any book about Jewish history that contains so many “Aha!” moments.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Hebrew, Hebrew Language, Lewis Glinert, Princeton University Press, The Story of Hebrew

Book Review: A. B. Yehoshua’s “The Extra” — A Genius for Dissecting Family Matters

This canny writer is concerned with the kind of complicated family relationships that engaged his Jewish literary forebears.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: A.B. Yehoshua, Hebrew, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Stuart Schoffman, The Extra, translation

Theater Review: “The Strawberry Girl” — Harvest of Horror

Israeli Stage has opened its sixth season, which is dedicated exclusively to female playwrights, with a haunting work that examines the complicity of an ordinary German in the Holocaust.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Guy Ben-Aharon, Hebrew, Holocaust, Israeli Stage, Savyon Liebrecht, The Strawberry Girl

Fuse Book Review: “The Book of Beginnings” — Vive les indifférences!

This study is an attempt to “enter” a foreign way of thought and to study the “possibilities” and, by extension, “potential mindsets” of the human mind.

By: John Taylor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: Chinese, François Jullien, french, Greek, Hebrew, The Book of Beginnings, theory, translation

Book Review: “Second Person Singular”—A Powerful Look at Israel’s Tangled Issues of Identity

In his novel, Sayed Kashua paints such a vivid picture of modern Jerusalem that I found myself longing to see that city again; he also portrays a whole spectrum of Arab life in Israel — from the poor families visited by the social workers to the ambitious Arab mothers and their sometimes feckless sons — with empathy and humor.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, World Books Tagged: fiction-in-translation, Hebrew, Mitch Ginsburg, Sayed Kashua, Second Person Singular

Fuse Books: A Few Year End Literary Favorites

As the year nears its end, time is running out to write at length about some of the new books that gave me pleasure. Thus this quick list of favorites. As usual, my taste runs to prose that’s off-the-beaten-path.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: Aharon Appelfeld, An Answer From the Silence: A Story from the Mountains, Andrew Bromfield, Blooms of Darkness, Croatian, David Williams, Dubravka-Ugresic, german, Hebrew, I Am Not Stiller, Karaoke Culture, Laish, Max Frisch, Mike Mitchell, Russian, The Hall of the Singing Caryatids, translation, Until the Dawn's Light, Victor Pelevin

Book Review: A Fascinating Meditation on Jewish Maps of Time

“Palaces of Time” is a exquisitely illustrated, elegantly written account of the history of Jewish calendars in early modern Europe, as well as a meditation on what they represented — profound reflections of the Jewish experience as it passed through time.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Books Tagged: Calandars, Early Modern Europe, Elisheva Carlbach, Harvard University Press, Hebrew, Jewish, Palaces of Time

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