History & Ideas
By 1944, a majority of Americans were willing to take in European Jewish refugees.
Casting new light on a well-known talmudic passage.
To the great Hebrew writer S.Y. Agnon, balance is all—and imbalance, as in the novel Only Yesterday, a devastating calamity.
Were the Hasmoneans really outnumbered?
Excavations in Ethiopia may shed some light on the biblical story.
Marion and Celia Moss, poets “of the Hebrew nation.”
A 6th-century-BCE record of purchasing a slave.
A Moses who led thousands to the promised land.
In his fiction, and especially in the novel Only Yesterday, S.Y. Agnon casts an ironic, unfooled eye on the inner lives of his fellow Jews and their lopsided bargains with modernity.
Identity politics, religion, and Francis Fukuyama.
For Herzl, Zionism was not merely about providing an escape from anti-Semitism.
The Kindertransport left parents to die.
A report from an Assyrian Christian.
And made possible his mother and brother’s immigration to England.
