Adriana X. Jacobs

Adriana X. Jacobs is the Cowley Lecturer in modern Hebrew literature at the University of Oxford and specializes in contemporary Israeli poetry and translation. She is completing her first book, Strange Cocktail: Poetics and Practices of Translation in Modern Hebrew Poetry.

For Further Reading: A Booklist of Contemporary Hebrew Writing

May 2015
Jessica Cohen, Adriana X. Jacobs, Adam Rovner

Netanya Dror Burstein, tr. Todd Hasak-Lowy(Dalkey Archive Press, 2013) Lies, First Person Gail Hareven, tr. Dalya Bilu (Open Letter, 2015) Moods Yoel Hoffmann, tr. Peter...
Prose, Poetry, and the Heresy of Normalcy: New Voices in Contemporary Hebrew Literature

May 2015
Jessica Cohen, Adriana X. Jacobs, Adam Rovner

ILLUSTRATION Noa Vichansky, The Spring Is So Short Here, date unknown, silkscreen. Courtesy of the artist. For a biographical note about Vichansky, see the end of the articl...