Arts & Culture
Two new novels offer angles of vision into Jewish experience in the (pre- or non-Israeli) parts of the modern Middle East.
A great novelist, and Nazi sympathizer.
Young trees covered in snow, . . . charmingly disturbing,
In her demure immediacy, she links the modern Jewish nation to its roots both in the land and in the foundational text of the Bible.
An exhibit at the Neue Galerie offered a taste of Jewish art from “before the fall,” but the subject cries out for a more ambitious undertaking.
Depth vs. breadth.
Babel, Singer, Agnon.
Of pogroms and animal carcasses.
In their seeming simplicity, they convey an intricately layered, acutely realized, and intensely moving human vision.
Raḥel will be read, sung, and recited long after many excellent Hebrew poets of her age, men and women alike, have been confined within classroom walls.
Wit, exile, Jew, convert, genius.
To perceive without seeing, and to utilize sight to sharpen rather than to detract from insight, is an essential Jewish task. This is the challenge that Rembrandt allows us to glimpse.
The adventures of an American Jewish novelist.
Eyshet Hayil vs. Vunder Voman.