“I have a good memory because I’m too weak to forget”
A new English selection of Avrom Sutskever's essential prose reveals the fascinating tension between the great Yiddish writer's Israeli present and his East European past.
Shachar Pinsker
Shachar Pinsker is a literary scholar and cultural historian specializing in modern Jewish culture in Palestine/Israel, Europe and America in Hebrew, Yiddish, English, German, and other languages.
Reading Lolita in Tel Aviv: ‘We must not assimilate into Israel; we must assimilate Israel into ourselves’
Thanks to its intrinsically conflicted nature, the Yiddish literature of the young Israel has been exceptionally potent in exploring the thematic proximity between the Holocaust and the Nakba.