Hayyim Nahman Bialik

Gideon Rubin has a problem. While most people are whoever they are, who Gideon Rubin is depends very much on where he happens to be. Almost…

WHEN THE DUST settles on the 2007-9 global crisis in Israel and abroad, what changes will have occurred in the way we live, work, save, spend, invest…

‘You are clearly not Jordanian. Where are you from?’ I had just boarded a bus in Irbid, heading south toward Amman. I was hot and tired and the…

Esther Rubin, the beautiful US-born writer who was married to the famous artist Reuven Rubin, passed away in Tel Aviv on Monday at the age of 99 and…

The year 1925 was just drawing to a close when Chaim Nachman Bialik shut the door of his home behind him, crossed the plaza, and entered the…

If Winston Churchill were alive today, he probably wouldn’t be surprised to find a Jerusalem street bearing his name – although very few other…

When 31-year-old Tzemah Yoreh opens his prayer book, he recites the following passage: “I will pour out my heart. But to whom?... Why? Why, oh why do…

Jewish Renaissance in the Russian Revolution By Kenneth B. Moss | Harvard University Press | 408 pages | $39.95Israeli readers may be interested in…

Dreams, when they serve as wish-fulfillment vehicles, are hard to give up. They become sources of comfort and confidence - even if, all too often,…

When Yoram Kaniuk was born in Tel Aviv in 1930, it was a small place with just 20,000 people and a handful of paved roads. But for Kaniuk and his…

Life of BrennerBy Anita ShapiraAm Oved (In Hebrew)456 pp., NIS 98My introduction to Yosef Haim Brenner happened many years ago while attending a…

Sixty percent of the country's high school pupils don't know the difference between the man who declared Israel's independence and the mortar used to…

No two cities complement each other better than Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Yet the denizens of Israel's political and spiritual capital often view their…

In 1920, a group of pioneers from the Second Aliya who came from Eastern and Central Europe, together with a small group of sabras, created Agudat…

Meir Dizengoff will ride again. The first mayor of Tel Aviv was apparently a striking figure in the 1930s, sitting atop his white horse while leading…

Dancing with Tears in Their Eyes(In Hebrew)By Nissan ShorAnhedonia is "an inability to experience pleasure from normally pleasurable life events,"…

About 10 years ago, Asaf Bartov wanted to look up a line from a certain poem by Haim Nahman Bialik. Having worked as a self-taught software engineer…

After three years of renovations, the Bialik Museum in central Tel Aviv will finally reopen to the public in time for the city's 100th birthday…

More than a century ago, Isaac Leib Peretz made his mark as one of the greatest writers in the history of Yiddish literature. Peretz's most memorable…

Operation Cast Lead, launched with the defined goal of restoring security to the Kassam-battered south of Israel, was code-named for the Haim Nahman…