The Mosaic columnist joins us to talk about her new podcast and the poetry and literature it will explore.
The cadences of the Talmud left their mark on Yiddish, and Israeli, speech patterns.
Tightknit communities as stand-ins for a society at large.
The Encounter.
What Gershom Scholem got wrong.
Will he be placed with Sholem Asch or with S.Y. Agnon?
On the Surface of Silence.
Two new novels offer angles of vision into Jewish experience in the pre- or non-Israeli parts of the modern Middle East.
It is now the demographic and cultural center of Jewry.
A Holocaust writer?
Private detectives, body-switching, fairies, and Jeremiah’s smartphone.
Efraim Kishon.
A translator reminisces.