Jessica Cohen

Hebrew literary translator

International Booker Prize (2017)

Guggenheim Fellow (2021)

New Translations

Professor Schiff's Guilt

by Agur Schiff

(New Vessel Press / May 2023)

What Makes an Apple?

by Amos Oz with Shira Hadad

(Princeton UP / Oct. 2023)

World Shadow

by Nir Baram

(Text Publishing / Sept. 2022)

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"Award-winning translator Jessica Cohen does a stellar job, tackling the novel’s multifarious voices and nuances so artfully it is surprisingly easy to forget that the novel was not written in English."

Ranen Omer-Serman, Jewish Book Council

Reviews

“...brilliantly translated from Hebrew by Jessica Cohen...”

The Economist

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"...beautifully translated as it is by Jessica Cohen - whose rendition of Vera's idiosyncratic Hebrew into fractured English is especially impressive..."

TLS