December: The Matchless Master of Modern Hebrew Literature
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Bridging the Unbridgeable Divide between Religion and Secular Modernity
To the great Hebrew writer S.Y. Agnon, balance is all—and imbalance, as in the novel Only Yesterday, a devastating calamity.
What If You Trivialize Hitler?
The question has plagued artists ever since the Holocaust. At least one contemporary artist manages to pass the test.
Why "Hanukkah Gelt" and not "Hanukkah Money"?
It sounds less mercenary—which is probably also why real coins eventually gave way to chocolate ones.
Perseverance; or, My Fight to Study, and to Teach, Yiddish Literature
In the late 1960s, appointments in Jewish studies were springing up in tandem with the “adversarial culture.” But we intended to strengthen the universities, not to trash them.
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The May 1948 Vote that Made the State of Israel
A long-accepted wisdom has it that just days before the state’s birth, its founders settled two burning issues in a pair of closely decided votes. The wisdom is half-wrong.Martin Kramer
Israel’s Demographic Miracle
Birthrates are falling across the world, especially in developed nations—except in one. How did mainstream, middle-class Israelis start having children again, and what does it mean?Ofir Haivry
