Fiction

Observation · September 10, 2021
Yeshayahu Leibowitz Wears a Kippah: A Story of 1967
By Edward Grossman
The philosopher in black turtleneck, black trousers, black shoes, and black yarmulke pacing the stage with a microphone skinning the Jews alive.
Observation · November 2, 2017
Wink: A Story
By Edward Grossman
In the mid-1970s, an Israeli military governor in Ramallah watches the trial of four young Arab men who have accused their interrogators of torture.
Observation · May 5, 2016
Hatred: A Story
By Zuzana Tausinger, Karel Tausinger
A Holocaust survivor returns to his Slovakian hometown after the war only to discover, one day in the market, a woman wearing his mother's dress.
Observation · October 29, 2015
Concerto in G Major: A Story
By Zuzana Tausinger, Karel Tausinger
As the war ends and she comes down from the mountains of Slovakia, a Jewish girl discovers that she can still be "moved by something other than the mere struggle for existence."
Observation · November 5, 2014
The Herd of Independent Minds
By Dr. Ruth Wisse
What does it mean to be "pro-Israel" on campus today? A new novel tells the tale.
Observation · September 30, 2014
Adam and I: A Story
By Irving Kristol
In Kristol's only published work of fiction, a guilt-ridden GI confronts an aggressive young Holocaust survivor.