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.
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...
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...