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.
Solidarity and Democracy
Ben-Gurion saw little need for American-style checks and balances. Instead, he put his democratic faith in mamlakhtiyut.
Strange, I’ve Seen that Face Before
Just as I was about to close the window and move on to the next Geniza fragment, two words winked at me as if I were a friend.
Those Days Are Gone Forever
What, exactly, is camp spirit?