Jewish Review of Books

A couple of weeks ago, Florence Hazrat, the author of On the Mark: From Periods to Interrobangs, How Punctuation Remade the World, posted an Instagram reel with the text overlay “Zios are giving my book bad reviews now.”

Jews around the world (but not very many others) have condemned the Norwegian Nobel Committee’s selection of Navanethem “Navi” Pillay, who has denounced Israel as a perpetrator of genocide, as this year’s winner of the Peace Prize.

On Friday, September 18, while most Jews were preparing for Yom Kippur, the Jewish-Argentine writer Ariana Harwicz received bad news from the Granada’s famous literary and arts festival, CULTUR-ALH.

Sergeant Itay Amar was nineteen when he fell in combat in the southern Gaza Strip in June 2024, along with seven of his peers.

As My glory passes by . . .

Ages ago, or so it now seems, American Jewry experienced its very own Great Awakening.

For about four years in the middle and late 1970s, I was a Jewish fundraiser, and, later, for some twenty years, I raised money for Dissent Magazine.

War has forever been a matchmaker.

How do you solve a problem like the golem?

Moses Maimonides opened his great code of law Mishneh Torah with the words “All of the commandments given to Moses at Sinai were given together with their interpretations.”

Galicia began as an invention and ended as a ghost.

A few weeks after the liberation of Bergen-Belsen in spring 1945, Chava Rosenfarb and Zenia Marcinkowska, who had been friends since childhood, went their separate ways.

It was Yom Kippur afternoon, and Rivkah Tiktiner must have been hungry.

A Jewish Declaration Jenna Weissman Joselit’s review of the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History’s major exhibition, The First Salute: An Untold Story of the American Revolution, (“The Weitzman Museum’s Thirteen-Gun Salute,” Summer 2026) fe…

Anti-Zionism has been around almost as long as Zionism and has a respectable Jewish pedigree.