Literature
A complicated relationship.
Is Israel the only source of interesting material for a Jewish novelist?
“The New Colossus” by Emma Lazarus and “The Silver Platter” by Natan Alterman distill, reinforce, and hallow what makes each nation distinctive.
Made public for the first time.
A defense.
Mosaic and Ruth R. Wisse invite you to a special holiday dramatization of the classic Yiddish story.
Free love in Anna Karenina.
The novelist in search of a literary father.
Morningside Heights.
Over the last 30 years, books for young Jews have dropped religious and national identity and become obsessed with the Holocaust. Can they be put on a better track?
Jews can, and should, appreciate John Milton’s reimagining of the Hebrew Bible.
A matter of family pride.
The figure of the great fairy king in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is descended from Judah Maccabee.
