Jewish Culture

I’m involved with a wonderful collection of people in Jackson who work hard to put on Figment, a participatory arts ...

When I was researching my last novel, my friend Michael Rohatyn found a book at the Strand he thought I might ...

The month of May, known as “Liberation Month,” contains Cinco de Mayo (celebrating Mexico’s liberating victory over the French in ...

Yesterday I wrote that my novel,  The Golem and the Jinni , is “pretty darn Jewish.” In truth, that’s only ...

So why would a nice Jewish girl not write nice Jewish fiction? My last book,  Stations West , was about ...

People ask me how much research I had to do on art forgery for my new book  A Nearly Perfect ...

I’d like to preface today’s post by saying that while I *wish* this were some sort of April Fool’s Day ...

By Education Fellow Reva FrankelTomorrow brings the end of Black History Month. Most often when we discuss the Jewish connection ...

Recently, I read an article about a punk-rock production of “Fiddler on The Roof.” The article caught my eye for several ...

Zi kholmt – she dreams.In Irena Klepfisz’s remarkable poem, “Etlekhe verter oyf mame-loshn / A few words in the mother tongue,” the speaker ...

The three of us waited expectantly and somewhat nervously in the seminar room, wondering why we had been summoned by ...

When I first began studying Yiddish, I felt like I was remembering something I already knew.It was a lovely sensation, this ...