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Nonfiction The Orpheus Clock: The Search for My Family’s Art Treasures Stolen by the Nazis Simon Goodman
Essay Israeli Writers Embracing English by Ranen Omer-ShermanBooks Discussed in This EssayThe Best Place on Earth: Stories by Ayelet TsabariTalking to the Enemy by Avner MandelmanThe People of Forever Are… Ranen Omer-Sherman May 19, 2015
Essay Photographing a Portrait of the American Jewish Community Earlier this week, Alina Bliumis wrote about the American-Russian-Jewish identity crisis and a photography series she shot, along with her partner and… Alina Bliumis May 13, 2015
Essay Addressing the American-Russian-Jewish Identity Crisis, Camera in Hand Alina Bliumis received her BFA from the School of Visual Art in 1999 and a diploma from the Advanced Course in Visual Arts in Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy… Alina Bliumis May 11, 2015
Essay American Jewish Writers and Israel Earlier this week, Michael C. Kotzin wrote a two-part series on radical Islamism’s war against the Jews. You can find part one here and part two here. He has been… Michael C. Kotzin May 8, 2015
Nonfiction Social Concern and Left Politics in Jewish American Art, 1880 – 1940 Matthew Baigell
Essay The Art in the Book Earlier this week, Barbara Stark-Nemon wrote about how her family chose to remember Germany after World War II. She is the author of the recently published novel Even… Barbara Stark-Nemon April 15, 2015
Nonfiction The B‑Side: The Death of Tin Pan Alley and the Rebirth of the Great American Song Ben Yagoda
Nonfiction The Myth of the Cultural Jew: Culture and Law in Jewish Tradition Roberta Rosenthal Kwall