Jessica Cohen

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Jessica Cohen is an award-winning translator of contemporary Israeli prose, poetry, and other creative work. Her translations include works by major Israeli writers including Amos Oz, David Grossman, Etgar Keret, Dorit Rabinyan, Ronit Matalon, and Nir Baram, as well as Golden Globe–winning director Ari Folman.

Happy New Years by Maya Arad
By Maya Arad

Maya Arad
New York. New Vessel Press. 2025. 376 pages.With immigration a timely topic, a new novel by an Israeli writer parses cross-cultural identity via a distinctive approach. Maya Arad’s pr…
More Than I Love My Life: A Novel by David Grossman
By David Grossman

David Grossman
New York. Knopf. 2021. 288 pages. DEVOTED READERS OF the wondrously gifted sixty-six-year-old Israeli author David Grossman eventually fall hopelessly in love with him. There is a ma…
De Beauvoir and Sartre on the Kibbutz
By Moshe Sakal
July 2018
Moshe Sakal
Photo: Sarah McGee/FlickrWhile visiting a kibbutz to give a lecture, and after dining on both hot desert-root vegetable soup and sushi, the speaker becomes the listener when someone in th…