Babelguides: Jewish Literature

Jewish Literature

by Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Translated by N Glatzer

Agnon, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1966 was the first writer in Modern Hebrew prose to give the language real international standing. He was though, radically unlike other great, Nobel-winning writers of the century like Thomas Mann or Albert Camus. Some of his preoccupations, (more...)

Thea: To Alexandria, Jerusalem and Freedom [Buy Direct]

by Ada Aharoni

Death in the Rain: A Novel [Buy Direct]

by Ruth Almog
Translated by Dalya Bilu
Original title: Mavet ba-geshem

World Is a Room, the and Other Stories [Buy Direct]

by Yehuda Amichai
Translated by Elinor et al Grumet
Original title: Ba-ruah ha-nora’ah ha-zot. (Selections)

The Shtetl [Buy Direct]

Translated by Joachim Neugroschel

The Retreat [Buy Direct]

by Aharon Appelfeld
Translated by Dalya Bilu

Badenheim 1939 [Buy Direct]

by Aharon Appelfeld
Translated by Dalya Bilu
Original title: Badenhaim, ’ir nofesh

Appelfeld’s early life was as terrifyingly eventful and shocking as his novels are terrifyingly calm and understated; born in Romania, he had lived through the murder of his mother and his own deportation to a labour camp before he turned eight. (more...)

The Iron Tracks [Buy Direct]

by Aharon Appelfeld
Translated by Jeffrey M. Green
Original title: Mesilat barzel.

Collected Stories [Buy Direct]

by Isaak Emmanuilovic Babel
Original title: Dnevnik 1920

Israeli Stories: A Selection of the Best Contemporary Hebrew Writing [Buy Direct]

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