Elegant and learned, personal and universal, literary, philosophical, and historical—Hillel Halkin’s finely wrought essays on themes of Jewish culture and life are an education in themselves.

Hillel Halkin is an acclaimed author of works of nonfiction and fiction, as well as a celebrated translator of contemporary Israeli literature and of Hebrew and Yiddish classics. His essays have appeared in Commentary, The New Republic, The Jewish Review of Books, Mosaic, and other publications, and he has been a columnist for The Jerusalem Report, The Forward, The Jerusalem Post, and The New York Sun.