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Lost Tribes of the South Pacific

How a band of island nations became Israel’s staunchest defenders

The Tsadik, the Roshe, and the Ugly

From an essay that appears for the first time in English in Writings on Yiddish and Yiddishkayt: A Spiritual Reappraisal, 1946–1955, a collection of his pseudonymous essays for the Yiddish…

A Sudden, Revealing Searchlight

by Ruth Franklin,

On Jean Strouse and the art of biography

My Auschwitz Vacation

by Tanya Gold,

On Holocaust tourism

The Dead Admonish

by John Ganz,

Facing the ghosts of resistance and exile

The Holocaust Angle

by Rebecca Panovka,

How a group of NIMBYs rewrote Alderney’s history

Israel’s War Within

by Bernard Avishai,

On the ruinous history of Religious Zionism

When They Were Pretty

by Henry Van Dyke,

From Ladies of the Rachmaninoff Eyes, which was republished this month by McNally Editions. “Heavens, Harriet,” Mrs. Klein said when Aunt Harry gave her the hot rum drink, “I need…

Basha Boosha

by Tova Reich,

You never realize how accustomed your eye grows to a familiar variety of human species in a particular place, including that place’s indigenous freaks and weirdos, until a bizarre specimen…

We Aren’t the People with Big Hats

by Elettra Pauletto,

Seeking out Judaism in Venice

Among Britain’s Anti-Semites