The poet’s philo-Semitism and visit to Jerusalem had a profound influence on him, and on Yehuda Amichai
Naomi Shihab Nye and Yehuda Amichai walk into a bar
May her memory be a blessing
A ‘wonderful’ new collection of Yehuda Amichai’s verse shows the poet’s profound resilience—and the weight of his ghosts
This week’s International Writers Festival in Jerusalem
Remembering the Palestinian poet on the five-year anniversary of his death
Plus NSA declassifies Jonathan Pollard damage assessment
No longer the province of an artistic elite, poetry in Israel today is being produced by hundreds of poets of all stripes
In her third novel, Great House, Nicole Krauss tells interlocking stories united by a desk—and the weight of the 20th century
Dahlia Ravikovitch and the poetry of the plainspoken
A newly translated anthology expands our notion of Israeli dissent
An editor looks back on 50 years at the helm of a leading Israeli literary magazine
Rereading Yehuda Amichai through the lens of heartbreak
Searching for birds in a changed Israel
