Letters
Letters, Summer 2024
Marginally Nabokov Thank you for Allegra Goodman’s excellent review of Maya Arad’s newly translated collection of novellas, The Hebrew Teacher (“Od Tireh, Od Tireh . . .,” Spring 2024). I…
Features
Swimming through History
The first time Alfred Nakache died, it was in the gas chambers of Auschwitz. The second time, it was in the water, where he was most at home.
Reviews
An Unusable Past?
What did Jewish women know about Torah, and when did they know it?
Their Crowd
What influence did Jacob Schiff and other wealthy Jews wield over the invention of American Jewry?
Diminished Light?
Can a new book on tzimtzum expand our knowledge of that esoteric concept?
A Savannah Poet
The Civil War cut short many lives, and in a book that blends the genres of history and memoir, Jason K. Friedman sets out the resurrect the memory of one of those lives.
Jews in Blue
Did Civil War Jews hurl themselves into battle on Yom Kippur, host raucous Seders in camp, and decorate themselves with imaginary honors? Adam D. Mendelsohn walks through the strange history of the Civil War's Jewish soldiers.
Middlebrow’s Moment
In the 1950s, Americans were introduced to Judaism. But what kind of Judaism, exactly?
A Tour Guide for the Perplexed
Is Noah Feldman's new book a modern Guide for the Perplexed or simply a perplexing tour?
Portrait of an Artist “Like Buttah”
If anything ties Barbra Streisand's new memoir together, it's the author's intense need for control.
Romancing the Exile
Shaul Magid’s counter-Zionism is not so much a political program as it is a utopian posture.
Readings
Kamp Vught: David Koker’s Netherlands
In a concentration camp tucked quietly away in a forest near Amsterdam, David Koker kept a rare diary of life during Nazi internment.
The Arts
An Inch Deep and a Mile Wide, or Vice Versa
Is Larry David good for the Jews?
As They Are
Agnieszka Traczewska, Shai Secunda
A unique view into the inner lives of Hasidic women.
Last Word
Operation Hebrew Camp
No American Jewish camp nowadays can equal the ebullient Zionism or fidelity to Hebrew that propelled Arzt and Co. into the sky.
Past Issues
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Issue No. 57
Spring 2024
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Issue No. 56
Winter 2024
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Issue No. 55
Fall 2023
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Issue No. 54