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Essay Finding Jack Levine Earlier this week, Samantha Baskind wrote about some of the artists she interviewed for Encyclopedia of Jewish American Artists. In the first chapter of her newest… Samantha Baskind August 13, 2014
Essay Interviewing the Artists I Write About Samantha Baskind is Professor of Art History at Cleveland State University. Her most recent book is Jewish Artists and the Bible in Twentieth-Century… Samantha Baskind August 11, 2014
Essay Inside the Pigeonhole Posted by Nat BernsteinThursday evening Stephanie Feldman, Liana Finck, and Boris Fishman sat down with a microphone and a moderator at Greenlight Bookstore… Nat Bernstein August 10, 2014
Essay Naomi, Ruth, and the South Earlier this week, Lenore Weiss wrote about Rabbi Levi Selwyn and Torah “Koshering” and asked Rabbi Selwyn a few question about the process. Her most recent… Lenore Weiss August 8, 2014
Essay A Job for a Sofer Lenore Weiss’s most recent collection,Two Places, is now available. She is blogging here all week for Jewish Book Council’s Visiting Scribe series.With a ready… Lenore Weiss August 4, 2014
Essay Jews and Slavery: Isaac Cardozo and Lydia Weston Earlier this week, Sabra Waldfogel wrote about Raphael Moses, one of the most eminent Jews in Georgia in the nineteenth century, and Clara Solomon, a Jewish girl… Sabra Waldfogel August 1, 2014
