Posts
Roald and the Giant Bummer
Did we learn anything new about the inner workings of antisemitism?
Klezmer, Jazz, or Something
Musings on a Musical Microgenre
Sinai before Switzerland: Three Dialogues in the Mountains
Judaism's original hilltop youths.
The Poems and Rivers of Jerusalem
“There are days when everything in Jerusalem is sails and sails . . . the flags, the tallitot, the kapotot.”
The Litterateur and the Cultural Zionist: a WWI Footnote
I first met Georg Brandes in the pages of Ahad Ha’am’s great essay . . .
Four Words Random House Would Rather Not Say
Rachel Goldberg-Polin, Dara Horn, & our Cultural Moment
Mourner in Zion
Dara Horn reviews Rachel Goldberg-Polin’s new memoir.
This is Not Just About the Rubinsteins
Jews under review
Zionist on 34th Street
The forgotten story of a lover of Zion
Crime Scene with a View
How the source of Nazi evil became, for a moment, a stage for a Jewish refugee’s audacity.