From the Archives
An Entrepreneurial American
“Houdini created his illusions and handed them down to his brother Hardeen, Hardeen sold them to the Amazing Dunninger, and Dunninger sold them to—my father,” writes Jerry Muller in his review of Adam Begley’s new biography of the great Jewish escape artist.
A Cipher and His Songs
Avraham Halfi faced outward, a gifted comic performer, and inward, a lyric poet of resonant privacy.
Remembering the Forgotten
Historian Bernard Wasserstein narrates Jewish life in Europe between the world wars.
A Dissonant Moses in Berlin and Paris
Schoenberg’s challenging opera is re-staged in 21st-century Europe.
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Fall 2024
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