47 - Song of the Lonely Poet // Yemima Hovav Cowed by his reputation as Jewish national poet, Hayim Nahman Bialik’s personal life was much less tempestuous than some might have preferred. Was it lack...
The book of Esther is a strange bird in the biblical zoo: God is totally absent, at least in name; assimilation is never vilified, and much of the story takes place around Passover, though the...