Arts & Culture

The founder of the newly opened Emet Classical Academy explains its meaning and moment.

Sept. 20 2024 12:01AM

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.

Sept. 6 2024 12:00AM

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.

Sept. 3 2024 12:01AM

And how Jews used art to send messages about themselves.

Aug. 28 2024 12:01AM

All nouns and adjectives in Hebrew are gendered. Why do those genders keep switching?

Aug. 15 2024 12:01AM

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?

Aug. 5 2024 12:01AM

I can’t think of a single serious Hebrew composition written by a Christian other than “In Praise of the Hebrew Language.”

July 22 2024 12:01AM

A new collection of the American Jewish writer’s work shows a core of brilliance surrounded by dreck.

David Mikics
July 12 2024 12:01AM

The venerable Jewish chef recommends apricot kuchen.

Joan Nathan
July 11 2024 12:01AM

A visit to Joseph Roth’s hometown of Brody.

Edward Serotta
March 20 2024 12:01AM

For young Americans, online dating has not only replaced the possibility, it’s also made it unappealing.

Serena Smith
March 20 2024 12:01AM

Hebrew is full of goats these days, and English and French aren’t too far behind. Where’d they all come from?

Feb. 29 2024 12:01AM

In many ways, Abraham Cahan was a stereotypically rationalist Lithuanian Jew, able to rein in his emotions and do what he felt right.

Feb. 26 2024 3:37AM

Many Dostoevsky scholars have been Jews, perhaps because the anti-Semitic writer needed to be seen as theirs—as almost Jewish in his concerns.

Dec. 26 2023 12:01AM