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"We arrived in Tortoreto, in the Abruzzi, after two days of traveling, sleeping on benches in stations, and changing trains." A 1941 drawing shows some of Steinberg's possessions, not long after his arrival at Villa Tonelli.
"We arrived in Tortoreto, in the Abruzzi, after two days of traveling, sleeping on benches in stations, and changing trains." A 1941 drawing shows some of Steinberg's possessions, not long after his arrival at Villa Tonelli.
Irving Penn: Anxious American Photographer

Exhibit at the de Young in San Francisco

byJonah Raskin
"We arrived in Tortoreto, in the Abruzzi, after two days of traveling, sleeping on benches in stations, and changing trains." A 1941 drawing shows some of Steinberg's possessions, not long after his arrival at Villa Tonelli.
"We arrived in Tortoreto, in the Abruzzi, after two days of traveling, sleeping on benches in stations, and changing trains." A 1941 drawing shows some of Steinberg's possessions, not long after his arrival at Villa Tonelli.
The Lost Encyclopedia of Jewish Artists
byAlyssa Quint
Irving Penn: Anxious American Photographer

Exhibit at the de Young in San Francisco

byJonah Raskin
The Lost Encyclopedia of Jewish Artists
byAlyssa Quint

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Rita Ackermann

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Poster for Republican President Richard M. Nixon’s reelection campaign, showing various scenes from his presidency, 1972
Poster for Republican President Richard M. Nixon’s reelection campaign, showing various scenes from his presidency, 1972
Rivers Crashing Inside

The secular surrealist Jewish poetry of Robert Desnos

byJake Marmer
The Fable of Fania

Salsa U.S.A. meets the Marvelous Jew and spawns ‘Hommy’

byMatti LeshemandBill Teck
Double Exposure: Jean-Pierre Melville

The ambiguities and darkness of Nazi-occupied France propelled him to flee his country, take a new name, fight in the Resistance, and then invent film noir. But the past continued to haunt him.

byAdrien Bosc
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Featured: David Mikics

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Chava Rosenfarb Returns to Lodz

The author’s daughter travels to the safe haven of Poland to celebrate her mother’s work, before returning to a Canada beset by antisemites

byGoldie Morgentaler
Susan Sontag’s Funny! Sexy! Sad! Magnum Opus Threatens to Upend Our Democracy
byBlake Smith

Anyone on Israeli soil was symbolically Jewish and therefore worthy of being genitally mutilated, hacked to pieces or burned alive.

Susan Sontag’s Funny! Sexy! Sad! Magnum Opus Threatens to Upend Our Democracy
byBlake Smith

Anyone on Israeli soil was symbolically Jewish and therefore worthy of being genitally mutilated, hacked to pieces or burned alive.

Susan Sontag’s Funny! Sexy! Sad! Magnum Opus Threatens to Upend Our Democracy
byBlake Smith

Anyone on Israeli soil was symbolically Jewish and therefore worthy of being genitally mutilated, hacked to pieces or burned alive.

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Collection
Reflections on October 7
October 7th marked a rupture in time—a moment that made the before and after feel irreconcilable. Israel and the Jewish people now live in the fallout of that day. This collection presents reflections on grief and war by a new generation of Israeli writers, whose work will shape our imagination of the future.
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Sharon Ya’ari, 'Route 40 (Palms),' 2015
Sharon Ya’ari, 'Route 40 (Palms),' 2015
Sharon Ya’ari, 'Friday Evening, Ganei Aviv Neighborhood, Lod,' 2012
Sharon Ya’ari, 'Friday Evening, Ganei Aviv Neighborhood, Lod,' 2012
Sharon Ya’ari, 'Friday Evening, Ganei Aviv Neighborhood, Lod,' 2012
Sharon Ya’ari, 'Friday Evening, Ganei Aviv Neighborhood, Lod,' 2012
Sharon Ya’ari, 'Friday Evening, Ganei Aviv Neighborhood, Lod,' 2012
Sharon Ya’ari, 'Friday Evening, Ganei Aviv Neighborhood, Lod,' 2012
Sharon Ya’ari, 'Bridge With Flowers, Route 42,' 2013
Sharon Ya’ari, 'Bridge With Flowers, Route 42,' 2013
Life here in Israel has fallen out of time. Hours run out and disappear, and days melt into nights. Kibbutz Nir Oz, Oct. 30, 2023.
Life here in Israel has fallen out of time. Hours run out and disappear, and days melt into nights. Kibbutz Nir Oz, Oct. 30, 2023.
Sharon Ya’ari, 'Mosaic (double exposure at 90-degree turn),' 2013
Sharon Ya’ari, 'Mosaic (double exposure at 90-degree turn),' 2013
Sharon Ya’ari, 'Friday Evening, Ganei Aviv Neighborhood, Lod,' 2012
Sharon Ya’ari, 'Friday Evening, Ganei Aviv Neighborhood, Lod,' 2012
Life here in Israel has fallen out of time. Hours run out and disappear, and days melt into nights. Kibbutz Nir Oz, Oct. 30, 2023.
Life here in Israel has fallen out of time. Hours run out and disappear, and days melt into nights. Kibbutz Nir Oz, Oct. 30, 2023.
Sharon Ya’ari, 'Bridge With Flowers, Route 42,' 2013
Sharon Ya’ari, 'Bridge With Flowers, Route 42,' 2013
Sharon Ya’ari, 'Mosaic (double exposure at 90-degree turn),' 2013
Sharon Ya’ari, 'Mosaic (double exposure at 90-degree turn),' 2013
Sharon Ya’ari, 'Bridge With Flowers, Route 42,' 2013
Sharon Ya’ari, 'Bridge With Flowers, Route 42,' 2013
Life here in Israel has fallen out of time. Hours run out and disappear, and days melt into nights. Kibbutz Nir Oz, Oct. 30, 2023.
Life here in Israel has fallen out of time. Hours run out and disappear, and days melt into nights. Kibbutz Nir Oz, Oct. 30, 2023.
Sharon Ya’ari, 'Mosaic (double exposure at 90-degree turn),' 2013
Sharon Ya’ari, 'Mosaic (double exposure at 90-degree turn),' 2013
Sharon Ya’ari, 'Friday Evening, Ganei Aviv Neighborhood, Lod,' 2012
Sharon Ya’ari, 'Friday Evening, Ganei Aviv Neighborhood, Lod,' 2012
Sharon Ya’ari, 'Friday Evening, Ganei Aviv Neighborhood, Lod,' 2012
Sharon Ya’ari, 'Friday Evening, Ganei Aviv Neighborhood, Lod,' 2012
Sharon Ya’ari, 'Bridge With Flowers, Route 42,' 2013
Sharon Ya’ari, 'Bridge With Flowers, Route 42,' 2013
Life here in Israel has fallen out of time. Hours run out and disappear, and days melt into nights. Kibbutz Nir Oz, Oct. 30, 2023.
Life here in Israel has fallen out of time. Hours run out and disappear, and days melt into nights. Kibbutz Nir Oz, Oct. 30, 2023.
Sharon Ya’ari, 'Mosaic (double exposure at 90-degree turn),' 2013
Sharon Ya’ari, 'Mosaic (double exposure at 90-degree turn),' 2013
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