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Fall Issue!

Amazing articles by Michael Walzer, Gary Saul Morson, Cecile E. Kuznitz, and many more.

  • Michael Walzer
  • Allan Arkush
  • Julia Kornberg
  • Gary Saul Morson
  • Shai Secunda
  • Roslyn Weiss
  • Jack Omer-Jackaman
  • Michael Avi Helfand
  • Daniel Gordis
  • Cecile E. Kuznitz
  • Harvey E. Goldberg
  • Amichai Chasson
  • Akiva Schick
  • Emil Stern
  • Abraham Socher

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Learning Yiddish After 60

Learning Yiddish After 60

David J. Fried

When I was about 10, I had a brilliant idea. If my parents would agree to speak only Yiddish with each other, it would just come to me without effort. I wouldn't have to learn it or study it, I would just wake up one day knowing it.

The Many Dybbuks of Romain Gary

The Many Dybbuks of Romain Gary

Benjamin Balint

Romain Gary—a Lithuanian Jew who regarded himself a Frenchman par excellence—emerges in a recent memoir as a master of self-invention and (just as immoderate) verbal invention, a chameleon of pseudonyms, a man of irreconcilable contradictions, divided against himself.

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