In Brief, Winter 2011
Judaism and Americanism, Young Tel Aviv, Psalms in the Arctic, Haym Solomon, and Funnyman
Jocasta Speaks
The Jewish woman, before feminism.
Letters From Chicago
One of the many pleasures of the recently published Saul Bellow: Letters is how it reacquaints us with Bellow's wry, poignant, infectiously erudite voice. This is all the more surprising because he wasn't, or at least so he insisted, a natural-born letter writer. As in his literature, Bellow's language is so stunning that one wonders whether he was writing to both his correspondents, and to readers like us.
Letters, Winter 2011
God, Torah, and Israel: An Exchange
Living Postcards
YIVO/Yeshiva University Museum's recent exhibit of pre-war home videos provides an extraordinary view into the lives of ordinary people.
Minyan 2.0
The next big thing in prayer.
No Joke
Roth's new novel takes surprising turns on familiar territory.
One State?
Sari Nusseibeh's recent book is a new formulation of an old proposal.
Seeds of Subversion
The "Other" Jewish tradition.
Simon Wiesenthal and the Ethics of History
Was Simon Wiesenthal an intrepid hunter of mass murderers? Or was he in fact more of a charlatan than a hero? Tom Segev's new biography of the most successful—and controversial—Nazi-hunter raises more questions than it cares to answer.