top of page
built for the Jewish Diaspora and olim, open to everyone
Search


Moshe Kassirer
Discover the captivating art of Moshe Kassirer, an Israeli artist renowned for his unique blend of naturalism and cultural symbolism.


Beit Hakerem. Jerusalem, 1985
The text describes Joel's experiences with the Sadovski family in Jerusalem's Beit Hakerem neighborhood during the 1980s. Joel, who had always admired Morris Sadovski, a wealthy French investor, and his son Amir, finds himself entangled in the local community’s complex social dynamics.


A Short Story Writer Who Doesn’t Obey Army Orders
This story is about an Arab writer who, while on his way to meet a widow in Nablus to discuss turning her extraordinary life into a novel, faces the harsh reality of life under the Arab-Israeli conflict. As he navigates the oppressive atmosphere of multiple Israeli army checkpoints, he attempts to use his knowledge of the Israeli author Etgar Keret to avoid humiliation and violence from the soldiers.


Notes From The Municipal Archives
In 1999, the narrator's father moved to a studio apartment in Bat Yam to focus on writing a novel about their family's history, only to abandon the project months later. During this period, the narrator recalls a conversation between their parents about their legacies, with the father dreaming of writing a great Israeli novel, and the mother believing her work in professional magazines would ensure her name lived on.


Seeing Them See The Sea
Discover a short story that gives a bit of perspective about what Israelis live on a day to day basis.


To Jaffa
The story follows an Arab student on a bus ride from Jaffa to Jerusalem, absorbed in his thoughts and observations. He meticulously records mundane details in his notepad, but his mind drifts into dark, imaginative scenarios, envisioning a terrorist attack on a nearby bus filled with soldiers.


The Emerging Israeli Literature Scene
This article includes external links to YouTube videos where you can hear and see the authors mentioned. Some of the content is in easily...


Eliezer Ben-Yehuda
1858 - 1922. Source: Ya'ackov Ben-Dov, id.lib.harvard.edu. Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, originally named Eliezer Yitzhak Perlman, was a Russian...


Haim Nahman Bialik
Haim Nahman Bialik was a Jewish poet who wrote in Hebrew and Yiddish and was one of the pioneers of modern Hebrew poetry.


Judah Leib Gordon
Born in Lithuania, then part of the Russian Empire, Judah Leib Gordon was among the most influential Hebrew poets. He is considered one of the greatest poets of Haskalah and is known for his sharp fight against the rabbinic establishment.
Categories
bottom of page