Dirty Hands in Difficult Times
Israel's relationship with apartheid South Africa is an inconvenient—perhaps unavoidable—truth.
Early Modern Mingling
How the Jews became modern.
Hidden Master
The closer we look at Green's theology, the more radical it turns out to be.
In Brief, Fall 2010
Hirsch’s poems, Illion’s lions, short prayers, Tommy Lapid & more.
Lamed-Vovnik
André Schwarz-Bart's posthumous The Morning Star goes where no Holocaust novel has gone before.
Let My People Go
Many of the heroes of the Soviet Jewry movement have been unsung, until now.
Letters, Fall 2010
Defending Steinberg, Spy Stories, and Rashi & Richard the Lionheart.
Love and War
David Grossman has for sometime been one of Israel's most talented and important writers. In many of his novels, his feeling for adolescence—one is tempted to say, his identification with it—has been so brilliantly intuitive that the imagining of adulthood has scarcely been possible. In To the End of the Land, Grossman makes his breakthrough.
Misreading Kafka
The Kafka myths, and the "myth-busters" who make them.
Palestine Portrayed
The 1948 War and the problems it left unresolved have returned to the top of the agenda for both diplomats and historians.