Jonathan Karp
Why Can’t We Be Friends (Again)?
In a new documentary, Henry Louis Gates Jr. argues that the Black-Jewish alliance is imperfect but important, and, he hopes, salvageable.
What Was That Really About? Antisemitism or Something New?
In our Winter 2024 Issue, Editor Abraham Socher, Jonathan Karp, and Reviel Netz debated the cause behind the surge of anti-Israel protests spreading across the US and the world. Are…
What’s Going On With Antisemitism?
Jonathan Karp responds to Reviel Netz
Anti-Israelism
It's a new prejudice, not just the old story in a new guise.
The Art of the Dealer
"What would have happened to us," Picasso wondered, " if Kahnweiler had not had a business sense?"
From Venice to Harlem
Faced with a bewildering variety of uses for the word “ghetto,” Daniel B. Schwartz performs marvels of clarification in steering the reader through the labyrinthian twists, turns, and hidden alleyways that mark this terminological odyssey.
Jews Not without Money
Jews, Money, Myth, at London's Jewish Museum, normalizes the Jewish relationship with money without negating those factors that made this particular historical association especially fraught.
Revisiting Herman Wouk’s City Boy
Remembering Herman Wouk's "gentle mockery at the shopworn pretensions of bohemian poseurs and ethnic Jews passing as nonhyphenated Americans."
Workday Jews
In their respective books, Chad Alan Goldberg and Eliyahu Stern address the question of whether the Jews are the quintessentially modern people or a people who came to modernity late and with a sudden shock. They reach very different conclusions.
Joseph the Righteous
But on the very night in 1737 that Joseph Süss Oppenheimer’s patron suddenly passed away, he, “his servants, and many other court officials were arrested, and soon a special inquisition committee was convened in order to investigate the court Jew’s ‘atrocious crimes.’”
A Foreign Song I Learned in Utah
Despite all of Bob Dylan’s subterfuges, disguises, and costume changes, he really was a child of the American heartland. Winning the Nobel Prize might actually be his most Jewish achievement.
The Hit Man
What music businessman Morris Levy craved even more than the recording artists themselves were the copyrights and catalogues the labels contained. “Copyrights don’t talk back,” he liked to say.