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“Wonderful exposure to contemporary Hebrew (mostly) fiction and poetry - much of which is not available or known about outside of Israel.”
“Excellent podcast giving exposure to the best of Israeli letters: fiction and poetry, contemporary and classic, it's an essential regular listen. Also has very well selected musical accompaniments.”
“Marcela's voice is perfect for narrating the poetry featured on this podcast. It really puts me in between the lines of text.”
Recent Episodes
From A to Z and Everything in Between: “Letters” Poetry
This week, host Marcela Sulak features Israeli poetry from the current issue of a special international journal based in Israel called "The Ilanot Review."
Humanity, Frail and Flawed: A Poem of Repentance
In the Jewish month of repentance, it seems a fitting time to read from Solomon Ibn Gabirol's poem about human frailty and proclivity to sin.
About the Host
Marcela Sulak
Marcela is an associate professor in the Department of English Literature and Linguistics at Bar-Ilan University. She teaches American Literature, poetics, and translation, and poetry workshops in the Shaindy Rudoff Graduate Program in Creative Writing. Her poetry includes Decency (2015), Immigrant (2010). She was nominated for the 2017 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, and translates from Czech, French, Spanish, German, Hebrew, and Yiddish. She’s co-edited Family Resemblance. An Anthology and Exploration of 8 Hybrid Literary Genres, and her essays appear in The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Boston Review, The Iowa Review, Gulf Coast, and elsewhere.
Symbol and Struggle: Poetry from Eli Eliahu
Eli Eliahu has described his poetry as “a documentation of the struggle of the individual against” of “a very stressed, crowded, violent and noisy country.”