Where To: America or Palestine? Simon Dubnov’s Memoir of Emigration Debates in Tsarist Russia
Dubnov's magisterial autobiography, written while Dubnov was in exile from both the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, takes the reader on a deeply personal journey through nearly a century of upheaval for the Jews of Eastern Europe. A new translation.
A Measure of Beauty
The Israeli hip-hop band Hadag Nahash blend the many strata of Hebrew language.
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.