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Essay One Obstacle After Another Richard Dean Rosen has written many books, but none presented more challenges than Such Good Girls: The Journey of the Holocaust’s Hidden Child Survivors. It’s a book… Richard Dean Rosen February 2, 2015
Essay We’ve Got the Moves: Jewish Madness on Madison Avenue Earlier this week, Kerri P. Steinberg wrote about the Jewish women in advertising a in 1960s New York. She is the author of the recently published book Jewish Mad… Kerri P. Steinberg January 29, 2015
Essay Remaining Russian Through Food This week, Boris Fishman — the author of A Replacement Life, just released in paperback from HarperCollins—blogs for The Postscript on one of his favorite paragraphs… Boris Fishman January 27, 2015
Essay Jewish Mad Women Kerri P. Steinberg is an associate professor of art history at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles. She is the author of the recently published book Jewish… Kerri P. Steinberg January 26, 2015
Essay A Guide for the Perplexed Knish-o-phile Earlier this week, Laura Silver wrote about the knish as an instrument of social justice. She is the author of the book Knish: In Search of the Jewish Soul Food and has… Laura Silver January 22, 2015
Essay The Inside Scoop on Writing a Column for The New York Times Earlier this week, Roger Cohen wrote about World Zionism and Paris’s personal and political problems. His newest book, The Girl from Human Street: Ghosts of Memory in… Roger Cohen January 21, 2015