Israeli author Yoram Kaniuk died after a long battle with cancer yesterday at Ichilov Hospital, Tel Aviv. The renowned writer was 83. Kaniuk was born in Tel Aviv on May 2, 1930. The list of people associated with his early childhood reads like a who’s who of the early days of Tel Aviv’s cultural life…
Branko Lustig, producer of “Schindler’s List” and “Gladiator,” plans to hold his (belated) bar mitzvah at Auschwitz. The Yiddish Book Center has put the family photos of Yiddish writer Scholem Asch online. Joshua Cohen interviews Israeli novelist Yoram Kaniuk for The Paris Review. Jeffrey Goldberg on the trials and tribulations of Sister Mary Schmuck of…
Yoram Kaniuk, one of Israel’s most prolific novelists a senior stateman of Israeli letters, writes in his Ynet column that artists, intellectuals and poets seem to be glaringly absent from the Arab democracy protests. This week an Egyptian writer was interviewed about the uprising. He was reserved, but he spoke. Up until Monday, throughout the…
Eric A. Goldman shares his discovery of the classic Canadian film “Lies My Father Told Me.” Katherine Preston looks at the similarities between “The King’s Speech” and “Going With the Flow,” a short documentary about speech therapy. Debra Nussbam Cohen praises the accomplishments of Jewish feminist Judith Plaskow. Philologos gets out his trunk. Jeremiah Lockwood…
On Thursday Dalkey Archive, the university press of the University of Illinois, disembargoed their long-touted release about their contemporary Hebrew literature series. Having already announced this year the imminent or forthcoming publication of three notable Israeli books in English — including Eshkol Nevo’s “Homesickness” (see video below) — Dalkey confirms that this will be an…
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