English readers get their first taste of ‘the finest living author writing in Hebrew’
The characters are Israelis living in the United States, negotiating between English and Hebrew, their Jewishness and their Israeliness, old worlds and the new.
"The Hebrew Teacher" is Israeli author Maya Arad's first book to be translated into English. (photo credit: New Vessel Press)ByANDREW SILOW-CARROLL/JTA