Jessica Cohen

Jessica Cohen translates contemporary Israeli prose and poetry. Her translations include David Grossman’s critically acclaimed To the End of the Land and works by Amir Gutfreund, Yael Hedaya, Etgar Keret, Ronit Matalon, and Tom Segev.

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...