Arts & Culture
A tale of two paintings and one city.
The hidden roots of the Yiddish-American expression “to shep nakhes.“
From In Treatment to Fauda.
A letter from the “development town” of Ofakim, where Jews from North Africa are helping to forge a new Israeli culture.
A brief history of Jews and cinema.
Translation, retranslation, and un-translation.
How does the great painter render the tale of Balaam and the ass?
The curious case of Agendath Netaim, which the half-Jewish Leopold Bloom spends a whole day considering.
Joyless exuberance.
It’s a Wonderful Life meets Pulp Fiction.
It is almost as if English and Hebrew had gotten together and decided, “Yes, we don’t as a rule do well rhyme-wise, but for Raḥel we’ll make a special effort.”
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,
