Spring 2020

Felberbaum 900 good

Halacha in the Time of Corona
Shlomo Dov Rosen
On social distancing and deontology.
The Road
TARB editors
How a classic piece of Israeli dystopian fiction shines a light on the current crisis.
Israel's Potemkin War
Eeta Prince-Gibson
An interview with Haim Har-Zahav, author of 'Lebanon: The Lost War.'

The Prime Ministers: A Man - Neither Hercules nor Perfect
Joshua Sobol
The industrious life of David Ben-Gurion, Israel's founding father, reads like a polyphonic novel whose depths are never exhausted.
Madam Zona: A Memoir
Payam Feili&Sara Khalili
An excerpt from Payam Feili's memoir about life as an Iranian asylum seeker in Israel.
Zionism + Concrete
Liam Hoare
Concrete was the material that built the State of Israel - its prevalence from Tel Aviv to Be’er Sheva to the kibbutz is an expression of Zionism itself.
Psychoanalysis & Kabbalah
Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel
The conceptual threads connecting the two systems of thought.
Welcome to the Desert of the Real
Ioram Melcer
We’re used to saying that truth is stranger than fiction. But why does Israeli literature hold back from strangeness in both truth and fiction?
Original in Hebrew
Between Three Circles
Guilherme Casaroes&Monique Sochaczewski
Brazil's Middle East Policy from Collor to Bolonsaro.
The Non-German German
Mati Shemoelof
An Israeli in Berlin asks: Does German culture belong to me?
Teaching the Conflict
Ari Blaff
Three publications show different approaches to teaching the Arab-Israeli Conflict on campus.
The Drive
Jessica Cohen&Yair Assulin
An excerpt from Yair Assulin's new novel, translated by Jessica Cohen.
Illuminating Brutal Details
Lonnie Monka&Yonatan Berg
A selection of the first English translations of work by poet Yonatan Berg.