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Our Winter Issue
Our terrific new issue is up on our homepage and headed to your mailbox. Mark Anderson’s engaging cover illustrates Glikl bas Leyb, often called Glikl of Hameln, juggling her groundbreaking writing, business, and family. Inside you’ll find two stories she wrote, from Chava Turniansky’s definitive new edition.
Other highlights include Allan Arkush’s review of Jessica Cooperman’s fascinating exploration of how giving soldiers wholesome recreation during World War I pushed religious pluralism forward in America, Jesse Tisch’s deep dive into a new biography of Mel Brooks, Elisheva Carlebach’s review of the Jewish Political Tradition project, and Steven J. Zipperstein on Bellow biographer James Atlas.
Articles by
Neil Arditi
Rich Cohen
Diane Cole
Abigail Green
Stephen J. Whitfield
and more…
A Life of Dialogue
Martin Buber’s call for a “Jewish renaissance” provided a generation of young Jews estranged from their heritage with a vision of Judaism they could identify with.
Nothing but Blue Skies
Irving Berlin was generating Tin Pan Alley hits before Ronald Reagan was born and was still writing lyrics when the elderly Reagan occupied the White House.
The Last Word
Atlas acknowledges in his memoir that by the time he nearly finished his 700-page Bellow tome, he found himself unable to sequester not only his dislike for his subject’s tendency to betray wives, lovers, and friends, but his sense that he, too, had been betrayed.
- From “He Called Me Jim”
- by Steven J. Zipperstein
- Issue Winter 2020
Overturned Tables
Despite his incontestable Jewishness, Jesus never participated in a Seder as the Mishnah describes it any more than he intended for Judeans to abandon biblical law for the worship of God’s only begotten son.
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The Last Word
Atlas acknowledges in his memoir that by the time he nearly finished his 700-page Bellow tome, he found himself unable to sequester not only his dislike for his subject’s tendency to betray wives, lovers, and friends, but his sense that he, too, had been betrayed.
- From “He Called Me Jim”
- by Steven J. Zipperstein
- Issue Winter 2020
Past Issues
Issue No. 40
Winter 2020
Issue No. 39
Fall 2019
Issue No. 38
Summer 2019
Issue No. 37