At the Edge of What?
Was the golden age of Polish Jewry truly golden, or just the calm before the storm?
Come Here to Me, You Fortunate Citizen of the World
Zalmen Gradowski’s testimony makes the sadism of the Nazi enterprise painfully clear. That seems obvious, but it runs counter to most Holocaust education.
Early Modern Blasphemy and Postmodern Virtue
Was Jacob Frank a progressive trendsetter or a seductive cult leader?
From Place to Place in Search of a Place: Reading Agnon in Berlin
Far from his family, and searching for a sukkah, Shai Secunda found himself following Shai Agnon’s footsteps through the city of Berlin.
From Turban to Top Hat
Torah crowns, Chinese scrolls, portraits by John Singer Sargent, invaluable Hebrew manuscripts. What does the Sassoon treasure mean?
It’s the End of the World as We Know It
Can liberal Judaism survive and thrive in the digital age?
Letters, Summer 2023
Outside, but Where?; Satmar Literacy; On the Interpretation of Freud, and More
No Simple Return
“I stepped into the air.” Hilde Domin wrote, “and it carried me.”
Nobody’s Fool
After Saul Bellow translated "Gimpel the Fool," he, Irving Howe, and Lazer Greenberg had a lechaim over schnapps. But nobody talked with Isaac Bashevis Singer.
Problems with Authority
Paul Goldberg’s latest novel, The Dissident, is a narrative tour de force that plays far too fast and loose with the historical facts, leaving its readers deeply misled.