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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 wh...
In his essay, "The Desire to be Gisella," Grossman ponders the root of our fear of the "other" in ourselves and in those we love, and he thi...
This week, Marcela takes a step back from the literature itself to look at the language of the words we use. The idea of the podcast, Israel...
In 2014, historian Fania Salzberger Oz, and her father, the late writer Amos Oz, paired up to write a book which is "a nonfiction, speculati...
Set in a rural village prior to the creation of the state of Israel, The Blue Mountain describes a community of eastern European immigrants...
On this episode, Marcela features the poems of a fascinating writer whose pen name was Avot Yeshurun. He published his first book of poems i...
Marcela shares the second installment of a three-part podcast on Ayalet Tsabari's important and beautiful memoir, The Art of Leaving . Altho...
On this episode, Marcela highlights The Lover , the first novel by A. B. Yehoshua, which he wrote in 1977. Yehoshua has been called the Isra...
Meir Shalev has been featured on two previous episodes. Four Meals is his third of eight novels. He's also published 7 works of nonfiction a...
On this episode, Marcela revisits Batya Gur, who introduced the murder mystery into Hebrew literature. Gur's highbrow mysteries are often se...
This book catapulted Ari Shavit into the international spotlight. The book was a New York Times best seller and listed by the Times in its "...
On this episode, Marcela reads an excerpt from Yaniv Iczkovits's novel The Slaughterman's Daughter: The Avenging of Mende Speismann by the H...
Today, Marcela finishes the three-part series on Ayalet Tsabari's wonderful memoir, The Art of Leaving , with her favorite thing: cooking! T...
In her introduction to Vaan Nguyen's collection, Adriana X. Jacobs writes, "Nguyen's poetry may circulate in the Anglophone literary market...
Have you seen the Crazy House on HaYarkon Street in Tel Aviv? It's a highrise that looks like pink cement, with some metallic puffed cream l...
Yishai Sarid's The Memory Monster takes the form of a report by the narrator, a young Israeli Holocaust scholar, written to his superior fro...
School has begun, and once again children are learning how to read, encountering the alphabet for the first time. Hopefully it is a pleasant...
As we labor under unbelievable pressures and uncertainties of the pandemic, especially women who have children at home, it might make us fee...
It's Sukkot again! Over the years in this podcast we've focused on various aspects of this holiday — inviting guests, selecting an etrog, th...
This week, amidst the holidays, Marcela celebrates by reading an excerpt from Ayelet Tsabari's newly published memoir, The Art of Leaving ....
On this episode, Marcela features Yochi Brandes' ninth book, The Orchard . It is the second to be translated into English, this time by Dani...
Marcela has got a thriller for you! Three , by D. A. Mishani, is a page turner that tells the stories of three women: Orna, a divorced singl...
It may sound crazy, but A. B. Yehoshua has written a page-turner about an aging engineer in the early stages of dementia, which features des...
With the world hit hard by the pandemic, Marcela has been taking consolation in nature, noting, as well, the benefits on the flora and fauna...
Miri Ben-Simhon was born into a Moroccan family, on the near bottom of the social scale. She grew up and remained in Jerusalem. Her poetry f...
This week, Marcela examine Shimon Adaf's wrenching and linguistically innovative elegy to his sister, who died at the age of 43. Aviva-No is...
On May 26 the novel Minor Detail , by the Palestinian writer Adania Shibli, appeared in Elisabeth Jaquette's English translation with New Di...
On this episode, Marcela reads from Yair Assulin's searing novel that tells the journey of a young Israeli soldier at the breaking point, un...
This week is the last week of Ramadan, which began on April 23rd and will ends Saturday, May 23. To acknowledge those who are fasting in iso...
Marcela reads from Karen Alkalay-Gut's A Word in Edgewise: Ladies From the Bible Tell Their Tales , published by Simple Conundrum Press. The...
On this episode, Marcela reads from Sayed Kashua's fourth, and latest novel, Track Changes . The novel was published in December by Grove Pr...
On this episode, Marcela reads from Sayed Kashua's fourth, and latest novel, Track Changes . The novel was published in December by Grove Pr...
Marcela reads from Anat Zecharia's poem, "One, Two, Three," which recently appeared in an issue of The Ilanot Review , in collaboration with...
Marcela highlights poetry from the latest issue of The Ilanot Review which, in collaboration with Granta Hebrew, published English translati...
This week Marcela reads from Nava Semel's novel, Isra Ilse , an alternative history of the Jewish People in which there was no state of Isra...
This week Marcela returns to focus on up and coming Israeli writers who have rarely or never before been translated into English, by featuri...
This podcast is dedicated to marriage—all the engaged couples with cold feet, newly married couples, whose memories of the ceremony are stil...
The novel, The First Mrs. Rothschild , by Sara Aharoni, tells the story of the wife of Meir Amschel Rothschild, the founder of the banking d...
Today we read from the story The Shop on Main Street , written by Ladislav Grosman, a Slovak novelist and screenwriter. The story is comical...
Set in contemporary Tel Aviv forty eight hours after Israelis discover all their Palestinian neighbors have vanished, the novel The Book of...
What if, when you were in Kindergarten, your mother had given you a magic wand that allowed you to read people's minds? Well, that's just wh...
No Israeli childhood experience would be complete without Leah Goldberg. Her story "Room for Rent" was published in 1948 and is one of the m...
This month we continue our spotlight on beautifully written and illustrated Israeli children's books translated into English with The Heart...
Some of Marcela's favorite children's books in Hebrew have been written by well known poets and illustrated by some of Israel's most talente...
For the next few weeks, we will feature work published in The Ilanot Review 's special collaborative issue with Granta Hebrew, focusing on n...
Many poems in Ronny Someck's The Milk Underground deal with being a father of girls—adolescent and teenaged, young women. They explore the f...
Ayelet Tsabari was born in Israel to a large family of Yemeni descent. She grew up in a suburb of Tel Aviv, served in the Israeli army, and...
We're currently in the days of Sukkot, in which Jews everywhere dwell (or at least take their meals) in a temporary structure called a Sukka...
We are now in the days of Awe between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, which will take place next week. This week, Marcela reads from Amichai C...
Rosh Hashanah begins on Sunday night—it is the beginning of the Jewish new year. And to usher it in, we read an excerpt from Etgar Keret's s...
Yesterday, Yonatan Berg's first poetry collection appeared in Joanna Chen's English translation, Frayed Light , published by the Wesleyan Po...