Manger Street is a ‘crook’ of a street in North Tel Aviv – perfect for our Yiddish-speaking prankster Itzik Manger, author of ‘The Songs of the Megillah.’

We look at one of I.L.Peretz’ most famous Yiddish plays – a tragic-comic shtetl ghost love story.

We dip into the writings of Ahad Ha’am, the founder of cultural Zionism, who foresaw the conflict and its solution.

We read from the diary of Anne Frank, whose optimism never fails to astound.

Shaul Tchernihovsky was a physician, linguist, naturalist, and poet who translated from 15 different literatures into Hebrew.

Discover Yaakov Shabtai’s single-paragraph novel, Past Continuous, the first truly vernacular work in the Hebrew language.

The poet Zelda Schneersohn Mishkovsky was Amos Oz’s first love, first cousin to the Lubavitcher Rebbe, and beloved by all Israelis, religious or secular.

Remembering Israel’s Nobel Laureate in Literature, Shai Agnon, and his masterpiece, Only Yesterday (Tmol Shilshom), which describes the founding of Tel Aviv and the first building outside the Old City of Jerusalem.

A teenaged spice-shop owner and professional scribe, Shmuel Hanagid wrote such scintillating and literary love letters that a client hired him for bigger and better things.