Israel in Translation

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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.

Episode Date
David Grossman’s “The Desire to Be Gisella”
Jun 02, 2021
Dory Manor’s “The Language Beneath the Skin”
May 19, 2021
Jews and Words
May 05, 2021
Meir Shalev’s “The Blue Mountain”
Apr 21, 2021
The Poetry of Avot Yeshurun
Apr 07, 2021
Ayelet Tsabari’s “Savta”
Mar 24, 2021
A. B. Yehoshua’s “The Lover”
Mar 10, 2021
Meir Shalev’s “Four Meals”
Feb 24, 2021
Batya Gur’s “Murder on a Kibbutz”
Feb 10, 2021
Ari Shavit’s “My Promised Land”
Jan 27, 2021
Yaniv Iczkovits’s “The Slaughterman’s Daughter”
Jan 13, 2021
Ayelet Tsabari’s “Yemenite Recipes”
Dec 30, 2020
Vaan Nguyen’s Poetry Collection: “The Truffle Eye”
Dec 16, 2020
Lali Tsipi Michaeli’s “The Mad House”
Dec 02, 2020
Yishai Sarid’s “The Memory Monster”
Nov 18, 2020
Hayim Nahman Bialik’s “Random Harvest”
Nov 04, 2020
Tehila Hakimi’s “COMPANY”
Oct 21, 2020
Rachel (Ra’hel) Bluwstein’s “Transformation”
Oct 07, 2020
Ayelet Tsabari’s Memoir, “The Art of Leaving”
Sep 23, 2020
Yochi Brandes’ “The Orchard”
Sep 09, 2020
“Three”: D. A. Mishani’s Thriller Read
Aug 26, 2020
“The Tunnel”
Aug 12, 2020
Meir Shalev’s “My Wild Garden”
Jul 29, 2020
Miri Ben-Simhon’s “The Absolute Reader”
Jul 15, 2020
Shimon Adaf’s “Aviva-No”
Jul 01, 2020
Adania Shibli’s “Minor Detail”
Jun 17, 2020
The Drive
Jun 03, 2020
Darwish’s “In the Presence of Absence”
May 20, 2020
“Ladies From the Bible Tell Their Tales”
May 06, 2020
Track Changes, Part 2
Apr 22, 2020
Track Changes
Mar 25, 2020
“One, Two, Three”
Mar 11, 2020
“The Children I Will Never Have”
Feb 26, 2020
Nava Semel’s “Isra Ilse”
Feb 12, 2020
Ayala Ben Lulu's “Mona Lisa”
Jan 29, 2020
Ronit Matalon’s “And the Bride Closed the Door”
Jan 15, 2020
Sara Aharoni's “The First Mrs. Rothschild”
Jan 01, 2020
Grosman's “The Shop on Main Street”
Dec 18, 2019
“The Book of Disappearances”
Dec 11, 2019
Nora the Mind Reader
Dec 04, 2019
Leah Goldberg's “Room for Rent”
Nov 27, 2019
Shira Geffen's “The Heart-Shaped Leaf”
Nov 20, 2019
“The Mermaid in the Bathtub”
Nov 13, 2019
Nano Shabtai's “Corn”
Nov 06, 2019
Ronny Someck's “The Milk Underground”
Oct 30, 2019
Ayelet Tsabari's “Barefoot and Enlightened”
Oct 23, 2019
Welcoming in the Ushpizin: Poems for Sukkot
Oct 16, 2019
Amichai Chasson's “Rami Levy in Talpiot”
Oct 02, 2019
Etgar Keret's “Ladder”
Sep 25, 2019
Frayed Light
Sep 18, 2019
“My Essay on Stereotypes”
Sep 11, 2019
Etgar Keret's “Fly Already”
Sep 04, 2019
Buses and Shoes
Aug 28, 2019
A Fairy Tale by Leah Goldberg
Aug 21, 2019
The Writings of Naji Daher
Aug 14, 2019
The Poetry of Gali-Dana Singer
Aug 07, 2019
Postcard from Pressburg-Bratislava: Remembering Tuvia Ruebner
Jul 31, 2019
On Childhood: The Writings of Israel Bar Kohav
Jul 24, 2019
The Poetry of Lali Tsipi Michaeli
Jul 17, 2019
Adi Assis's Poetry of Social Critique and Personal Pain
Jul 10, 2019
“My Flesh Speaks of God”
Jul 03, 2019
The Poetry of Ayat Abou Shmeiss
Jun 26, 2019
“The Life:” The Biography of Flavius Josephus
Jun 19, 2019
Josephus’s “Jewish Antiquities”
Jun 12, 2019
The Poetry of Arab Israeli Women
Jun 05, 2019
Celebrating Eid Al Fitr Through Poetry
May 29, 2019
Nurit Zarchi's “The Plague”
May 22, 2019
Aharon Appelfeld’s “The Age of Wonders”
May 15, 2019
Yom Hazikaron: The Gate of the Valley
May 08, 2019
Anne Frank: 'Young and Strong and Living Through a Big Adventure'
May 01, 2019
The Song of Songs
Apr 24, 2019
Robert Alter’s Bible: Like Two Worlds at Once
Apr 17, 2019
“I Am the Daughter of Lot”
Apr 10, 2019
The Poetry of Ayman Agbaria
Apr 03, 2019
“The Orange Exploded in My Hand”
Mar 27, 2019
King Ahasuerus and the Persian Court
Mar 20, 2019
Shani Boianjiu’s “The People of Forever Are Not Afraid”
Mar 13, 2019
Israeli Love Poetry in Translation
Mar 06, 2019
Rana Werbin Introduces Us to the Genre “Auto-Reality”
Feb 27, 2019
Aharon Appelfeld: The Ticho House Café Interview
Feb 20, 2019
Select Poems from The Ilanot Review, Part 2
Feb 13, 2019
Select Poems from The Ilanot Review, Part 1
Feb 07, 2019
Golan Haji: A Note on Syrian Poetry Today
Jan 30, 2019
Leaving Nothing Unsaid: The Poetry of Noam Partom
Jan 23, 2019
Remembering Amos Oz, Part 2
Jan 16, 2019
Savoring the Poetic Artistry of Nadia Adina Rose
Jan 09, 2019
Remembering Amos Oz
Jan 03, 2019
“A Very Cheerful Girl”
Dec 19, 2018
“My Feet in Boots and My Heart in My Feet”
Dec 12, 2018
Mendele Mokher Seforim's “What is Chanukah?”
Dec 05, 2018
Bernstein's Loveliest Love Poetry
Nov 28, 2018
On Writing the Fantastic: Part 2
Nov 21, 2018
On Writing the Fantastic: Part 1
Nov 14, 2018
The Eco-Poetry of Sabina Messeg
Nov 08, 2018
I am Dareen Tatour
Oct 31, 2018
The Short Shorts of Alex Epstein
Oct 24, 2018
Dinner with Joachim
Oct 17, 2018
Simple, True, and Authentic: The Poetry of Mordechai Geldman
Oct 10, 2018
Farewell to the Alexandrian Summer
Oct 03, 2018
I, Kohelet, Son of David, King in Jerusalem
Sep 26, 2018
A Story for Yom Kippur by S. Y. Agnon
Sep 19, 2018
Poems for These Days of Repentance
Sep 12, 2018
Poems of Isaac for Rosh Hashanah 5779
Sep 05, 2018
Learning Through Translation
Aug 29, 2018
Helawy's “R.A. Looks for His Eyes”
Aug 22, 2018
The Poet Who Longed for the Future: David Avidan
Aug 08, 2018
Giving Voice to Those Traditionally Left Out: Roy Hasan
Aug 01, 2018
Bringing Innovation to Hebrew Poetry Since the 1950s: Natan Zach
Jul 25, 2018
“I'm the Mizrahi”: Adi Keissar's New Wave of Mizrahi Poetry
Jul 18, 2018
The Poetic Translations of Peter Cole
Jul 11, 2018
Asenath Barzani: The First Known Woman Rabbi
Jul 04, 2018
“Some Day”: Shemi Zarhin's Best-Selling Novel
Jun 27, 2018
A Digital Window into Gaza: Mosab's Facebook Poetry
Jun 20, 2018
Petty Business: A Tale of Two Families in 1980s Israel
Jun 13, 2018
The Meaning of Home: Poems by Sheikha Helawy
Jun 06, 2018
The Peculiar Case of the Cursed Sabakh Diamond
May 30, 2018
If You Awaken Love: A Novel by Emuna Elon
May 23, 2018
Your ID, Haji: Preparations for Ramadan
May 16, 2018
If All the Seas Were Ink: A Memoir by Ilana Kurshan
May 09, 2018
The Words of Aouni Sbeit from David Grossman's “Sleeping on a Wire”
May 02, 2018
A Night to Remember on the Road to Independence
Apr 25, 2018
Past Euphoria, Towards Wisdom: Amos Oz’s “The Meaning of Homeland”
Apr 18, 2018
Poems of Holocaust Remembrance
Apr 11, 2018
Bereavement: Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff and “To Die a Modern Death”
Apr 04, 2018
The Day Before Passover: S.Y. Agnon’s “The Home”
Mar 28, 2018
Egypt, Interbellum: Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff's "Jacob's Ladder"
Mar 21, 2018
Neighborhoods: Mahmoud Shukair's "Jerusalem Stands Alone"
Mar 15, 2018
“A Bride for One Night”: A Talmudic Tale by Ruth Calderon
Feb 28, 2018
An Elegant Professor: Ruby Namdar’s "The Ruined House"
Feb 21, 2018
Travels Through Language: The Poetry of the Jerusalem Light Rail
Feb 14, 2018
I Live in an Old Book: Poems by Haim Gouri
Feb 07, 2018
For the Sake of the Homeland: Nava Semel's "Paper Bride"
Jan 31, 2018
A Translator Poet: Peter Cole's "Hymns and Qualms"
Jan 24, 2018
And The Rat Laughed: Remembering Writer Nava Semel
Jan 17, 2018
In Memory of a Master: Aharon Appelfeld's "The Story of a Life"
Jan 10, 2018
Tale of Two Friends: "Bliss" by Ronit Matalon
Jan 03, 2018
An Infusion of Religious, Secular, and Sensual Registers: Poems by Esther Ettinger
Dec 28, 2017
The Woman from Nazareth: Dan Banaya-Seri's “Birds of the Shade”
Dec 20, 2017
A Hanukkah Story: Etgar Keret’s “Childish Things”
Dec 13, 2017
Life is a Dance: “The Dancer” by Yehudit Hendel
Dec 06, 2017
In Transit: Poems by Tuvia Ruebner
Nov 29, 2017
Immigration Anxiety: Tamar Merin's “What Are You Looking At?”
Nov 22, 2017
Between Legend and Reality: the Poems of Sharon Hass
Nov 15, 2017
Next Door Neighbor: Eshkol Nevo’s "Three Floors Up"
Nov 08, 2017
Translator Interview Series: Michael Kramer
Nov 01, 2017
Outside Looking In: Ya’ara Shehori's "Aquarium"
Oct 18, 2017
New Beginnings: Poetry for the High Holidays
Oct 11, 2017
"Swede Dreams" are Made of This
Oct 04, 2017
Special: Children's Book Recommendations
Sep 27, 2017
Fear and Glory: Rosh Hashanah's "Unetanneh Tokef"
Sep 20, 2017
Symbol and Struggle: Poetry from Eli Eliahu
Sep 13, 2017
From A to Z and Everything in Between: "Letters" Poetry
Sep 06, 2017
Humanity, Frail and Flawed: A Poem of Repentance
Aug 30, 2017
The Other World in "The World of the End"
Aug 23, 2017
Roy "Chicky" Arad's Music and Political Poetry
Aug 16, 2017
Studies in Possibility and Details of Reality: Adi Sorek
Aug 09, 2017
Yehezkel Kedmi's "My People, Knowledge, and Me"
Aug 02, 2017
Nothing But the Truth: Yael Dayan's "Transitions"
Jul 26, 2017
"We Don't Exist in Gaza" and Other Poems
Jul 19, 2017
Flash Fables: Daniel Oz's "Further Up The Path"
Jul 12, 2017
There's No Place Like Home: Eshkol Nevo's "Homesick"
Jul 05, 2017
History Made Modern: A Folktale from S.Y. Agnon
Jun 28, 2017
A Fairy Tale: Emile Habibi’s "Saraya, The Ogre’s Daughter"
Jun 21, 2017
Power, Politics, and Poetry from Meir Wieseltier
Jun 14, 2017
Your ID, Haji: Preparations for Ramadan
Jun 07, 2017
Marking Shavuot With Michal Govrin's "The Name"
May 31, 2017
Blacklisted Love: Dorit Rabinyan's "All the Rivers"
May 24, 2017
A Melodious Pair: Batsheva Dori-Carlier and Umm Kulthum
May 17, 2017
Israeli Poetry's Brightest Flame
May 10, 2017
A Night to Remember on the Road to Independence
May 03, 2017
Sitting With Strangeness: A Conversation With Adriana X. Jacobs
Apr 26, 2017
Bilingual Pen Friends, Translation Amiss
Apr 19, 2017
Tradition Distorted: S.Y. Agnon's Passover Tale
Apr 12, 2017
Straight from the Source: Amalia Sulak’s Young Reader Recs
Apr 06, 2017
Take This Poem and Copy It
Apr 05, 2017
The Story of Abu Tor
Mar 29, 2017
Hagit Grossman and Disposition of City Ladies
Mar 22, 2017
"Reckless Love": Poems by Raquel Chalfi
Mar 15, 2017
The Guardian State
Mar 08, 2017
Girl From the Slums
Mar 01, 2017
"The Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist"
Feb 22, 2017
Writing on the walls of Musrara
Feb 15, 2017
The fig tree with gnats: A short story by Avner Shats
Feb 08, 2017
At the End of Sleep, between worlds
Feb 01, 2017
Ibn Gabirol, Vulture in a Cage
Jan 25, 2017
On childhood to parenting, through space and time
Jan 18, 2017
Traveling in psalms with Yonatan Berg
Jan 11, 2017
Revisiting Yoram Kaniuk, Between Life and Death
Jan 04, 2017
Where Jesus walked, told through 'Arabesques'
Dec 28, 2016
Brimming with kisses: Poetry by Hadas Gilad
Dec 21, 2016
In the dim wine cellar: Poems by Tamir Greenberg
Dec 14, 2016
Raise the roof
Dec 07, 2016
"At the edge of a thick forest"
Nov 30, 2016
Life on the kibbutz: A memoir by Yael Neeman
Nov 23, 2016
Yoram Kaniuk and Clara's beautiful life
Nov 16, 2016
"A single big refugee camp"
Nov 09, 2016
Yudit Shahar, poet of the Israeli working class
Nov 02, 2016
"Palestine first": The resistance poetry of Samih al-Qasim
Oct 26, 2016
Poems of praise from Medieval Spain
Oct 19, 2016
On Yom Kippur in tennis shoes
Oct 12, 2016
Poems for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur
Oct 05, 2016
Hava Pinhas-Cohen: Poems for the month of Elul
Sep 28, 2016
Mahmoud Darwish and the song of the oud
Sep 21, 2016
Women's Hebrew Poetry on American Shores
Sep 14, 2016
The wisdom of Meir Wieseltier
Sep 08, 2016
Stories not swords in "The Secret Book of Kings"
Aug 31, 2016
The true story of a made-up Mossad operative
Aug 24, 2016
Mosquito: Roy Chen's mini-metamorphosis
Aug 17, 2016
Buczacz: A city in its fullness
Aug 10, 2016
Shai Agnon's "Book of the State"
Aug 03, 2016
"Did you pack it yourself?"
Jul 27, 2016
Tahel Frosh and the Mountains of Spain
Jul 20, 2016
Death of a Monk: Retelling the Damascus Affair
Jul 14, 2016
The voices of snipers on the Israel Defense Forces radio station
Jul 06, 2016
One Night, Markovitch
Jun 22, 2016
Waking Lions: A story of secrets and extortion
Jun 15, 2016
Dolly City, where Kafka meets Tel Aviv
Jun 01, 2016
"Dear Perverts": The poetry of Hezy Leskly
May 25, 2016
David Grossman's "Falling Out of Time"
May 18, 2016
Poet Agi Mishol on "Holocaust, Remembrance, Independence"
May 11, 2016
Poems of Holocaust Remembrance
May 04, 2016
“Gods Change, Prayers are Here to Stay”
Apr 27, 2016
Sayed Kashua's farewell
Apr 20, 2016
Vilna My Vilna: Chana-Merka, the Fishwife
Apr 13, 2016
The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem
Apr 06, 2016
The Travels of the Last Benjamin of Tudela
Mar 28, 2016
A perfectly modern Purim
Mar 23, 2016
Else Lasker-Schüler's blue piano
Mar 18, 2016
Heathcliff in Tel Aviv: A strange encounter
Mar 09, 2016
Leaving Lebanon: Ron Leshem's "Beaufort"
Mar 02, 2016
The sound of her steps
Feb 24, 2016
On the silence of the Yemenites
Feb 17, 2016
"After Arbor Day": A Tu B'Shvat story
Feb 10, 2016
The unspoken language
Jan 27, 2016
When Death walks into your cafe, in pajamas
Jan 21, 2016
The petit bourgeois life of Ayana Erdal
Jan 13, 2016
Israel Pincas: Hot or cold, cloudy or clear
Jan 06, 2016
Hagit Grossman's Palaeolithic paintings
Dec 30, 2015
’Our Holocaust’: A tribute to Amir Gutfreund
Dec 23, 2015
To live within the song of Natan Yonatan
Dec 16, 2015
Counting the miracles: Hanukkah poetry special
Dec 09, 2015
In the mood for Yoel Hoffmann
Dec 02, 2015
Water, Fire, Earth & Ark: Elements of Salman Masalha
Nov 25, 2015
Poetry that bridges the divide
Nov 18, 2015
Poems and memoir: Chestnuts blooming in the fall
Nov 11, 2015
The One Facing Us: Ronit Matalon’s family album
Nov 04, 2015
Naim Araidi and the people of the Galilee
Oct 28, 2015
Amira Hess and the Children of Atlantis
Oct 21, 2015
Farewell to the Alexandrian summer
Oct 14, 2015
"Let there be light": The birth of the world through a child's eyes
Oct 07, 2015
A visit to the 'etrogger' with S.Y. Agnon
Sep 30, 2015
Eating dark earth on Yom Kippur
Sep 22, 2015
Blowers to the shofar, souls to the firing line
Sep 16, 2015
Free admission to Rosh Hashanah
Sep 10, 2015
Ode to a golden summer vacation
Sep 02, 2015
Rutu Modan's graphic touch
Aug 20, 2015
Icarus learns to fly
Aug 12, 2015
Death of a Soviet space dog
Aug 05, 2015
A. B. Yehoshua's green seas and yellow continents
Jul 22, 2015
Nurit Zarchi's baby blues
Jul 15, 2015
"The Seven Good Years" Part II: Bombs away
Jul 08, 2015
Etgar Keret's "The Seven Good Years": Part I
Jul 01, 2015
Zeruya Shalev's teddy bear wars
Jun 24, 2015
Scorched by the Sun
Jun 17, 2015
Tal Nitzán's interior design, exterior chaos
Jun 10, 2015
My Russian Grandmother and Her American Vacuum Cleaner
Jun 03, 2015
A circle of friends
May 27, 2015
The Dawning of the Day
May 20, 2015
Desert flowers with deep roots
May 13, 2015
Israeli poetry's brightest flame
May 06, 2015
A desert oasis through the eyes of a blind poet
Apr 29, 2015
A night to remember on the road to independence
Apr 22, 2015
Maya Bejerano's poetry lab
Apr 15, 2015
Jewish travel: A Passover reading of Moses' personal memoir
Apr 08, 2015
Mysticism, messianism, and divine music
Apr 01, 2015
David Grossman's echo of reality
Mar 25, 2015
The she-fox under the thornbush
Mar 18, 2015
Verses from a Christian Arab village on the frontier
Mar 11, 2015
A perfectly modern Purim
Mar 04, 2015
Without shadows, the desert flames
Feb 25, 2015
An inexpugnable first impression
Feb 18, 2015
A Tel Aviv beach in winter
Feb 11, 2015
Songs of Sderot
Feb 04, 2015
Standing in line for bread
Jan 28, 2015
On earth as it is in Tel Aviv
Jan 21, 2015
"Blessed be He who made me woman"
Jan 14, 2015
The cloudy skies of Tuvya Ruebner
Jan 07, 2015
Seeing out 2014 with Dahlia Ravikovitch's 'Dress of Fire'
Dec 31, 2014
Where Jesus walked, told through 'Arabesques'
Dec 23, 2014
On Hanukkah, kindle a small pillar of fire
Dec 17, 2014
Yona Wallach's Hebrew "peeks through the keyhole"
Dec 10, 2014
Ronny Someck, a poet of Tel Aviv
Dec 03, 2014
Sayed Kashua: An examination of Arab-Israeli identity
Nov 26, 2014
Jews and Arabs driven apart in 'The Swimming Race'
Nov 05, 2014
Nisim Aloni's terrifying 'To Be a Baker'
Oct 29, 2014
'Valley of Strength': Feminism in the Zionist narrative
Oct 28, 2014
The Israeli detective novel
Oct 28, 2014
'The Hilltop' shows us the view from both sides of the separation wall
Oct 22, 2014
The souvenir shop of Taha Muhammad Ali
Oct 15, 2014
Sukkot special: The fragility of the etrog
Oct 08, 2014
Yom Kippur's Poetry of Awe
Oct 01, 2014
Haim Gouri's Piyyut for Rosh Hashanah
Sep 24, 2014
Rivka Miriam on asking forgiveness
Sep 17, 2014
Yehuda Amichai's 'Wildpeace'
Sep 10, 2014
The 'pessoptimist' who worked for coexistence
Sep 03, 2014
Neomi Shemer
Aug 20, 2014
Sholem Aleichem: 'The Jewish Mark Twain'
Aug 13, 2014
Mendele Mocher Sforim
Aug 06, 2014
Ruth the Moabite: Judaism's most famous convert
Jul 30, 2014
The hymnal poet-paver of the roads of Israel
Jul 23, 2014
Natan Alterman's agricultural contributions
Jul 16, 2014
Yocheved Bat Miriam, a poet on the threshold
Jul 09, 2014
'A story of heroes and villains, of sorrow and glory'
Jul 01, 2014
A Yiddish tale of love, pogroms and Jewish mysticism
Jun 25, 2014
The founder of Cultural Zionism: Just one of the people
Jun 18, 2014
Young and strong and living through a big adventure
Jun 11, 2014
The Renaissance Man from Odessa
Jun 03, 2014
Defeating armies and taking names 
May 28, 2014
Yaakov Shabtai's vernacular
May 21, 2014
A poet beloved by one and all
May 14, 2014
Only Yesterday
May 07, 2014
On love and spices
Apr 30, 2014
A poet tough as nails
Apr 23, 2014
On love and spices
Apr 16, 2014
Know your roots
Apr 09, 2014
I have been planted with the pines
Apr 02, 2014
The Andalusian poet who turned complaining into an art form
Mar 26, 2014
There was a dream; it passed
Mar 19, 2014
Rahel The Poet
Mar 12, 2014
The spectacular fly in the ointment of the Andalusian-Jewish elite
Feb 26, 2014