Shibboleth

Is the Yiddish theater growing since your absence, or no?” – This was the first question of the line of questions that the writer asked t...

Alas! Bantzia Shvayg’s death made no impression whatsoever on the world. Don’t bother asking who Bantzia was, how he lived, and how he di...

I say to the hibiscus: my Lord is God my Lord is the and I repeat this over and over with devotion and I can’t stop He is the I sing this...

He opened saying, “like a lily amidst the brambles—so is my love amidst the maidens” (Song of Songs 2:2). The Blessed Holy One desired th...

The Jews among whom Adrienne Rich felt most rooted are those who were turned to smoke. Ethereal, weightless, floating high above the camp...

Call It Sleep is one of the great texts of the Jewish-American literary canon. Published in 1934, Henry Roth’s novel stars the eight-year...

On the morning of December 7, 2017, a federal judge in Buenos Aires requested an arrest warrant for ex-president Cristina Fernández de Ki...

Jonathan Ray, a professor of Jewish Studies at Georgetown University, wrote an essay about this question. It explored the place of Sephar...