The Future Past Perfect
Treasure and tragedy in the letters of Stefan and Lotte Zweig, one of the most famous literary couples of the early 20th century.
The Language of Tradition
On tradition as a first language.
The Man’s Learning Moves Me
Isaac Casaubon, the Hellenist who loved Hebrew.
The Novelist and the Physicist
A celebrated Jewsh novelist steps into the religion-science debate.
The Red Beret and the Rabbis
What has happened to the Religious Zionist rabbinate?
Translating and Remembering Chaim Grade
A memoir of faith, literature, and chickens.
What . . . Him Worry?
How did Abraham Jaffee, raised in the shtetl of Zarasai, became one of MAD magazine's most prolific and recognizable cartoonists?
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.