ArtScroll’s Empire
How did a Brooklyn-based, Orthodox publishing house corner the market on religious texts in America?
Between New York and Jerusalem
For twenty-five years, Gershom Scholem and Hannah Arendt, two of the most gifted, influential, and opinionated Jewish intellectuals of the 20th century, maintained a remarkable correspondence. Recently published, these illuminating letters provide a rare glimpse into a relationship that has too often been described as adverserial.
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.