Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Prayers for the State of Israel. Yes, Now, on Tisha B'Av
Especially with Tisha b’Av approaching during a bloody war, many of us want to feel the bond of kinship that transcends politics, J.J. Goldberg writes.
Wait ‘Till the Sun Shines, Nelly Sachs
Anyone traveling through Germany this month has until June 27 to see a landmark exhibit at the Jewish Museum Berlin, “Flight and Metamorphosis: Nelly Sachs, Writer, Berlin/Stockholm.” The exhibit, which opened March 25, pays homage to Nelly Sachs, the only German-language poet ever given the Nobel Prize. In 1966, Sachs shared the Nobel with Israeli author Shmuel Yosef Agnon, in what the Nobel Committee termed an award to “Jewish” writers.