From the Archives
In the Melting Pot
More than a century after Zangwill's play debuted, the melting pot is still bubbling. What does that really mean for American Jewry?
The Great Gaon of Italian Art
Berenson’s teacher Charles Eliot Norton dismissively dubbed Berenson's method the “ear and toenail school,” but Berenson employed the technique in his first book to great effect.
A Pinch of Levity
Is it true that three people are required to perfect a joke: one to tell it, one to get it, and a third not to get it? Stuart Schoffman tracks a single Jewish joke through multiple tellings.
Rereading Herzl’s Old-New Land
A bad novel, but an important and prescient book.
Past Issues
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Winter 2020
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Fall 2019
Issue No. 38
Summer 2019
Issue No. 37