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0 Literature Politics

The Hebrew Teacher review: ‘big questions about the future of Israel’

Jewish Chronicle · 26 Sep

Maya Arad's "The Hebrew Teacher" is a collection of three novellas exploring the lives of Israeli women in America, confronting personal and cultural dislocation.

0 Literature Israel

Letters, Summer 2024

Jewish Review of Books · 15 Jul

In the "Letters, Summer 2024" section, David Lobron praises Maya Arad's novella "The Hebrew Teacher," likening it to Vladimir Nabokov's work and highlighting the depiction of marginalized characters in academia.

0 Literature Israel

How Jessica Cohen became the go-to English translator of contemporary Israeli literature

Andrew Esensten in JTA · 20 May

Jessica Cohen has risen to prominence as the most sought-after Hebrew-to-English translator of contemporary Israeli literature.

0 Literature Culture

Od Tireh, Od Tireh . . .

Allegra Goodman in Jewish Review of Books · 26 Apr

Maya Arad's collection of novellas, translated by Jessica Cohen, delves into the diasporic experience of Israeli academics and entrepreneurs who have relocated, exploring themes of intergenerational conflicts, satire, and academic politics.

0 Literature Israel

The Israeli Diaspora Finds A Voice

Carlin Romano in Moment · 21 Mar

The text discusses the critique of the marginalization of Israeli women writers in contemporary Hebrew fiction, attributing some of the bias to Jewish religious tradition.

0 Literature Israel

English readers get their first taste of ‘the finest living author writing in Hebrew’

Andrew Silow-Carroll in JTA · 10 Mar

Israeli author Maya Arad's collection "The Hebrew Teacher" introduces English readers to her poignant novellas, set in the U.S. and centered on Israeli characters grappling with issues of Jewishness, Israeliness, and family dynamics.

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As American as Augie March

Michael Weingrad in Jewish Review of Books · 10 Jul 2023

Maya Arad's novel "Shanim tovot" is a collection of annual Jewish New Years letters written by Leah Zuckerman over five decades, chronicling her life in America and her attempts to maintain a connection with her Israeli roots.

0 Culture Literature

Reader, I Adopted Him

Alan Mintz in Jewish Review of Books · 28 Dec 2015

Maya Arad, a prominent Hebrew writer living outside Israel, creates novels that focus on the lives of the professional class rather than the typical big issues in Israeli literature like war or the Holocaust.