From the Archives
Learning Yiddish After 60
When I was about 10, I had a brilliant idea. If my parents would agree to speak only Yiddish with each other, it would just come to me without effort. I wouldn't have to learn it or study it, I would just wake up one day knowing it.
We Agree on Herzl
You know a review has turned mean-spirited when you’re indicted for crimes you quite carefully didn’t commit.
Standing at Sinai in Medieval Germany
An unusual illustration of revelation from the fourteenth century Tripartite Mahzor.
Counting Jews
Tim Grady makes a careful but controversial case about the way Jews contributed to or supported Germany's worst excesses in World War I.
Past Issues
Issue No. 40
Winter 2020
Issue No. 39
Fall 2019
Issue No. 38
Summer 2019
Issue No. 37