All posts tagged "judaism"
Fiction Reviews
You or Someone Like You by Chandler Burr
April 21, 2025The religious and cultural tensions present in this book, while controversial, are always handled with grace...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Lisa Alcalay Klug: Releasing Your Inner Heebster
March 10, 2025But for now, there is only one book and it’s a book that’s all about shouting...
Art & Design
Crossing Borders: Manuscripts from the Bodleian Libraries — Jewish Museum of New York
November 9, 2024To look at one of the treasures on display in this wonderful exhibit, the Kennicott Bible,...
Non-Fiction Reviews
An Interview with Rebecca Goldstein, author of “Betraying Spinoza”
July 25, 2024"The issue that animated his life and his thought was that of religious intolerance. The Jews...
Art
Art Review: Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus, Philadelphia Museum of Art
May 5, 2024Living in close proximity to the growing Jewish population of Amsterdam, the biblically-minded Rembrandt experienced an...
Art
Art Review: Paris Through the Window: Marc Chagall and His Circle, Philadelphia Museum of Art
April 6, 2024Chagall was a major exception to the ready embrace of western modes of art and thought...