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Essay We’ve Got the Moves: Jewish Madness on Madison Avenue Earlier this week, Kerri P. Steinberg wrote about the Jewish women in advertising a in 1960s New York. She is the author of the recently published book Jewish Mad… Kerri P. Steinberg January 29, 2015
Essay Jewish Mad Women Kerri P. Steinberg is an associate professor of art history at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles. She is the author of the recently published book Jewish… Kerri P. Steinberg January 26, 2015
Essay A Guide for the Perplexed Knish-o-phile Earlier this week, Laura Silver wrote about the knish as an instrument of social justice. She is the author of the book Knish: In Search of the Jewish Soul Food and has… Laura Silver January 22, 2015
Essay It’s the First Week of June. Do You Know Where Your Family History Is? Boris Fishman immigrated from the USSR at nine. He studied Russian literature at Princeton, was on staff at The New Yorker, co-wrote the US Senate’s Hurricane… Boris Fishman June 2, 2014
Visual Arts Katz’s: Autobiography of a Delicatessen Jake Dell; Baldomero Fernandez, photographer; Adam Richman, fwd.
Essay The ABC of It: Why Children’s Books Matter by Michal Hoschander MalenThe New York Public Library has curated an outstanding new exhibit titled The ABC of It: Why Children’s Books Matter. On display is… Michal Hoschander Malen March 13, 2014
Essay The City Below Earlier this week, Tova Mirvis wrote about how both novelists and voyeurs watch other people, trying to uncover the hidden parts of their lives. Her newest novel,… Tova Mirvis March 12, 2014
Nonfiction Why Do Only White People Get Abducted by Aliens?: Teaching Lessons from the Bronx Ilana Garon
Nonfiction Black Harlem and the Jewish Lower East Side: Narratives Out of Time Catherine Rottenberg, ed.
