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History with a Flourish

Spring 2020

History with a Flourish

Jenna Weissman Joselit

So much gets lost in translation—and to history—when household items, heavy with use, first assume the status of heirlooms and then land in museum vitrines, heralded as art rather than history.

Lawrence of Judea: T. E. Lawrence and the Deal of the Twentieth Century

Spring 2020

Lawrence of Judea: T. E. Lawrence and the Deal of the Twentieth Century

Rick Richman

"It is essential that [the Jewish community] should know that it is in Palestine as of right and not on sufferance." —Winston Churchill

Super Stan

Spring 2020

Super Stan

Michael Weingrad

Even in comparison with so many other contributions to American popular culture and entertainment, comic books are an especially Jewish story.

The Lost Voices of Salonica

Spring 2020

The Lost Voices of Salonica

Alexander Nehamas

Sarah Abrevaya Stein’s prodigious research, a true labor of love, gives voice to the long-silenced Salonican Jews.

The Way We Live Now

Spring 2020

The Way We Live Now

Abraham Socher

One uncanny thing about this moment is that no one has yet put the experience we are all having—collectively yet separately, sometimes on Zoom—into articulate words.

Thoreau and the Jewish Problem

Spring 2020

Thoreau and the Jewish Problem

Stuart Schoffman

When my friend and I read Walden, I shuttle between my old paperback, festooned with underlining and marginalia, and Jeffrey S. Cramer’s handsome annotated edition.

The Play’s the Thing: A Revolutionary New Haggadah

April 2, 2020

The Play’s the Thing: A Revolutionary New Haggadah

Shai Secunda

The exodus from Egyptian bondage was a good thing. What about a haggadah that is "unbound"

Was Exodus a Trick?

April 2, 2020

Was Exodus a Trick?

Stuart Halpern

“Let us deal shrewdly with them," the Bible quotes Pharaoh as saying. On the deceits of the Exodus story.

Rov in a Time of Cholera

March 19, 2020

Rov in a Time of Cholera

Elli Fischer

From limiting minyan sizes to magical amulets, a look at how one rabbi faced waves of cholera epidemics over his long 19th-century career.

When Everything Matters

March 16, 2020

When Everything Matters

Janis Freedman Bellow

Bellow on Roth on TV.

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