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In the Land of Charm
Why does Nicholas Lemann's Southern family consider him "alarmingly Jewish?"
Giving and Taking
Irv opened each envelope, looked at the pledge, and, if he thought it wasn’t enough, tore the card in half and passed it back.
Captives of Circumstance
After the Holocaust, many female survivors married American or British soldiers—the marriages were both an escape and a sacrifice.
Fight Club
Why does Jewish literature keep resurrecting the golem?
Turning Hills into Plains and Mountains into Valleys: On Translating Maimonides’s Guide
Does an impressive new translation of The Guide to the Perplexed take away too much of the book's perplexing nature?
Two Galitzianers
Galicia began as an invention, ended as a ghost, and birthed Jewish literature in between.
Surviving Letters
A new collection of letters between two Holocaust survivors moves with the drama of a novel.
Hiding in Plain Sight
Taxes, kashrut, witchcraft, and robbery—a new book reconstructs the lives of early modern Ashkenazi women.
Letters, Fall 2026
A Jewish Declaration; Fit for Hollywood; and Robo-Khap
An Abusable Past
Why do two new books on anti-Zionism struggle so much with the facts?