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Alex Zucker
Alex Zucker (b. 1964) is currently translating novels by Arnošt Lustig, Tomáš Zmeškal, Heda Margolius Kovály, Josef Jedlička, and Petra Hůlová. His translation of Jáchym Topol’s The Devil’s Workshop (Portobello Books, 2013) received an English PEN Award for Writing in Translation. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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January 2014

Afterword: The Death of the Translator

George Szirtes

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January 2014

1. The translator meets himself emerging from his lover’s bedroom. So much for fidelity, he thinks. 2. Je est...

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November 2015

Streets of Contradiction

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November 2015

Jerusalem has a remarkably cohesive identity, in architectural terms. Every building, from the Western Wall to the sleek hotels...

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September 2011

The Moon over Timna

Rikudah Potash

TR. Michael Casper

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September 2011

In a copper house Lived the new moon, The new moon Of Timna. In a copper coat With a...

 

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