Arts & Culture
The founder of the newly opened Emet Classical Academy explains its meaning and moment.
In the Christian ideal of art, the artist is nowhere to be found. In the Jewish one, the artist is imbued with a divine spark and in special cases can achieve holiness.
Christian artists often employ a notion called typology, or prefiguration, where events from the Hebrew Bible eventually find rhymes within the later life of Jesus.
And how Jews used art to send messages about themselves.
All nouns and adjectives in Hebrew are gendered. Why do those genders keep switching?
For centuries, visual artists, nearly all Christian, turned to the Hebrew Bible for inspiration even more often than the New Testament. What did they find there, and did they treat it well?
I can’t think of a single serious Hebrew composition written by a Christian other than “In Praise of the Hebrew Language.”
A new collection of the American Jewish writer’s work shows a core of brilliance surrounded by dreck.
The venerable Jewish chef recommends apricot kuchen.
A visit to Joseph Roth’s hometown of Brody.
For young Americans, online dating has not only replaced the possibility, it’s also made it unappealing.
Hebrew is full of goats these days, and English and French aren’t too far behind. Where’d they all come from?
In many ways, Abraham Cahan was a stereotypically rationalist Lithuanian Jew, able to rein in his emotions and do what he felt right.
Many Dostoevsky scholars have been Jews, perhaps because the anti-Semitic writer needed to be seen as theirs—as almost Jewish in his concerns.