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Norman Manea: Romania’s Great Jewish Novelist
Jewishness has been the hinge of his fiction, if not the whole door.
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Arts & Culture
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“The Brutalist” Displays Moral Confusion about Both America and the Holocaust
The director fails to understand what the world after the Nazis was like for those who miraculously survived.
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Christians Believe in Divine Art. Jews Believe in Divinely Inspired Art. What Does the Difference Mean?
By Jacob WisseIn response to the growing debate over the role and implications of using artificial intelligence to create art, the headline of a story from the Harvard Crimson posed the question, “If it wasn’t cr...
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Watch Gary Saul Morson and Jacob Howland Discuss the Dostoevsky Problem
By Gary Saul Morson, Jacob Howland, Jonathan SilverIn this month’s feature Mosaic essay , the literary scholar Gary Saul Morson argues that the great Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky presents a conundrum: On the one hand, he was the great writer of...
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Henry VIII’s Jewish Musicians
And the tragedy of Jews in Western music.
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Why a Jewish Painter Put Jesus in His Israeli Passover Scene
A first seder, not a last supper.
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The Unstoppable Cynthia Ozick
In a Yellow Wood.
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A Jewish Musical Genius’s Journey from Fame to Oblivion, and Back
The story of Friedrich Gernsheim.
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The Tykocin Synagogue and Its Magnificent Artwork
A rare surviving gem of East European Jewry.
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In a New Hebrew Novel, a Fictional American-Israeli Scholar Tells His Story
The Ghost Editor.
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The High Points of Irish-Jewish Cultural Cross Pollination, and What Went Wrong
“If It Wasn’t for the Irish and the Jews.”
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The Exquisite Artwork, Jewish and Gentile, Inspired by the Book of Esther
Esther in the Age of Rembrandt.
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The Poetic Art of the Purim Shpil
“Our heads are full to the brim with our thinking/ Just as the King runneth over with drinking.”
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Israel, the Oscars, and Self-Righteous Applause
“We’re the good guys. Please, love us!”
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The Nine Jewish Lives of the Most Literary of Refuseniks
Remembering David Shrayer-Petrov.
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The American Jewish Novelists Imagining Israel’s Demise
Next Stop.
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The Last Great Yiddish Novel Has Been Translated
Rediscovering Chaim Grade’s Sons and Daughters.
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Israel’s Great Surrealist Artist and His Quest for Humans’ “Animal Dignity”
Edwin Salomon.
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Nobody Wants All Hell to Break Loose. But Who’s Breaking, and from Where?
By PhilologosCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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Pre-War Germany’s Most Beloved Jewish Artist
Walter Trier: cartoonist, illustrator of children’s books, and anti-Nazi propagandist.
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The Gifted Hasidic Artists Whose Work Won’t Cross Religious Red Lines
Heirs of Asher Lev.
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What Kind of Jewish Writer Is Joseph Epstein?
Recovering from a “Jewish historical blackout.”
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Podcast: Cynthia Ozick on “The Conversion of the Jews” (Rebroadcast)
By Tikvah Podcast at MosaicCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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Marion Wiesel: Wife, Translator, Survivor, and Activist
She was also responsible for immortalizing the photography of Roman Vishniac.
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The Wonders of a Grand Anglo-Jewish Manor
A visit to the Rothschilds’ home in Waddesdon.
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What “Wicked” and “Terrifier 3” Reveal about America’s Moral Confusion
Evil on screen.
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How a Religious Pop Song Bridged Israel’s Cultural Divide
“He always loves me.”
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A Life of Translating Jewish Literature
And the sound of S.Y. Agnon’s own voice.
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How “Hester Street” Changed Its Source Material into a New Kind of Immigration Story
An 1896 Yiddish novel’s journey to Hollywood.
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A Movie about Two Jews Exploring Their Family’s Past Endorses a Limited Understanding of History
A Real Pain.