Israeli Literature

  • A photograph of figures on a beach. The photograph is heavily colored in red and orange tones.

    The End of the World

    By Natan Zach
    January 31, 2022 Natan Zach
    Photo by Steven Weeks / Unsplash Completely at random, the world ended. Trade in shares was lively, the weather splendid. Lovers lay in beds and some on the sand. Artists painted nature, i…
  • A photo of writer Rachel Tzvia Back juxtaposed against the cover to her book What Use is Poetry?

    The Uses—and Uselessness—of Poetry

    October 28, 2019 Dara Barnat
    Many poets, writers, and thinkers have dwelled on the meaning of poetry following great tragedy, with Theodor Adorno’s claim that “To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric” (“Cultural Criticism a…