Literature

Victor M. Erlich offers insight into an infamous Shakespearean character.

The zogerke or firzogerin, once the vernacular translator in the women’s section of the synagogue, has faded into distant memory. Dalia Wolfson reimagines her for our times.

In tribute to his son's hanahat tefilin and Bar Mitzvah, Lehrhaus Consulting Editor Jeffrey Saks explores a little-known, mysterious practice that appears in Agnon's short story Two Pairs.

Jewishness, antisemitism, popular culture and Russian television in the postwar era? Historian Maya Balakirsky Katz explains.

Sarah Rindner contemplates whether Torah u-Madda as it’s sometimes interpreted can engender unreflective allegiance to trends in contemporary society that might harm our religious communities.

R. Yitzchak Blau analyzes the 2018 book, Was Yosef on the Spectrum?

Malka Simkovich hunts for Jewish texts in some unlikely places.

Eileen Watts puts the writings of Bernard Malamud in conversation with today's immigrant debate.

Twelve years after the passing of R. Menachem Froman, his daughter-in-law, the scholar and activist Tchiya Froman, considers R. Froman’s literary critique of the Gush Emunim settlement enterprise and his determination that Judaism requires a feminine revolution.

Mitchell First reviews Yehuda Landy's Purim and the Persian Empire.