Peter Cole is one of the foremost Jewish poets and translators in the English-speaking world. A recipient of the MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” and a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship, Cole has ...

Alan Cheuse reviews Ladies and Gentlemen, The Original Music of the Hebrew Alphabet, two novellas by translator and scholar Curt Leviant, published by the University of Wisconsin press.

The Jewish mystical tradition comes to the fore in these two novellas, which chronicle scholarly quests into the dusty vaults of history and memory. In "Ladies and Gentlemen," musicologist Isaac Gantz ...

Each weekday, catch up on the 5 most pressing stories to start your morning in 3 minutes or less. Alan Cheuse reviews Ladies and Gentlemen, The Original Music of the Hebrew Alphabet, two novellas by ...