Arts & Culture
Adelbert von Chamisso.
A sumptuous new book collects 100 examples of decorated and illuminated haggadahs from across Europe, Israel, America, and beyond.
A “Gentile Jewess” in the holy city.
A Holocaust writer?
The diary of a Tunisian Jew.
Private detectives, body-switching, fairies, and Jeremiah’s smartphone.
Mendele Mokher Seforim’s The Mare.
Can Yiddish literature be delightful?
Deified by their Soviet readers, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are beginning to find increasing numbers of readers in America.
Neither astute nor entertaining.
In his paintings of Jacob and his twelve sons, the 17th-century Spanish master humanizes his subjects, rendering them approachable and individual rather than remote and ethereal.
We were the descendants of Isaac. The Arabs, descendants of Ishmael, were therefore not only our neighbors but also our family members, our cousins.
But not Philologos.
In the hit show, Queen Elizabeth II puts the British prime minister in check for his secret plan to attack Egypt. In real life, he was checkmated by David Ben-Gurion.