Essay
Unrequited Love: When Women Study the Talmud
Women Talmud scholars find different paths through a patriarchal text.
Susan Reimer-Torn
Conversation
The Language of Displacement
Mexican author Myriam Moscona talks about building a legacy for Ladino in the world.
Alejandro Meter and Myriam Moscona
Memoir
Notes from the Underground
An overnight stay in the Vilna Ghetto’s newest attraction.
Menachem Kaiser
Essay
Shoahtecture
Are we building Holocaust memory all wrong?
Samuel Holleran
Memoir
Transitions in Jewish Time: A Trans Writer Visits the Mikveh
“Going to the mikveh meant giving my body, as it was, a place to be loved and called to holiness.”
Jayce Koester
Poetry
Two Poems From ‘Comfort’
“they say she raised peacocks and grapes against all advice / —women inherit the worst / slices of property”
Sarah Heady
Fiction
Tela de Sevoya (Onioncloth)
An excerpt from Tela De Sevoya, an elegy for Ladino.
Myriam Moscona
Art
Benyamin Reich’s ‘Imagine: Dreams of the Third Generation’
An Israeli photographer in Berlin explores subterranean currents in Jewish-German relationships.
Maia Ipp
Fiction
Bread
A new translation by Ellen Cassedy from the forthcoming collection On the Landing: Stories by Yenta Mash.
Yenta Mash
Poetry
The Miami Beach Series, 1982
Poems by historian Paul Buhle, drawn from interviews with the “Jewish Old Left” in Miami Beach.
Paul Buhle
Review
Not Another Holocaust Book
Sheila Heti’s Motherhood addresses a family’s post-Holocaust grief—without addressing the Shoah outright.
Helen Betya Rubinstein
Review
Skin in the Game
Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman puts stress on the dual threats of white supremacy: antisemitism and racism.
Zack Graham
Review
What Happened to the Black-Jewish Political Alliance?
Challenging the sanitized history of blacks and Jews during the Civil Rights era.
Rachel Cohen
Review
Screw Capitalism!
In her new book, Kristen Ghodsee explores how capitalism harms women, including in their intimate lives.
Jess Bergman
Uncategorized
Yelp Reviews of Holocaust Museums
A five-star system for evaluating your commemorative experience
