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Nonfiction The Sun and Her Stars: Salka Viertel and Hitler’s Exiles in the Golden Age of Hollywood Donna Rifkind
Nonfiction The Man Who Lit Lady Liberty: The Extraordinary Rise and Fall of Actor M. B. Curtis Richard Schwartz
Essay Lear’s Warning Paul Goldberg first heard a Moscow version of the myth about Jews using blood for religious rituals when he was ten, in 1969. By the time he emigrated to the US in… Paul Goldberg February 15, 2016
Essay ‘My Fair Lady’ in Hebrew? Aviya Kushner is the author of The Grammar of God, a memoir of her Journey into the Words and Worlds of the Bible. She will be blogging here all week for the Jewish… Aviya Kushner September 8, 2015
Essay Fiddler at Fifty by Edward ShapiroIt has been fifty years since Fiddler on the Roof opened on Broadway on Tuesday, September 22, 1964 at New York City’s Imperial Theater. To mark its… Edward Shapiro December 9, 2014
