Josh Lambert, a Tablet Magazine contributing editor, is the academic director of the National Yiddish Book Center and Visiting Assistant Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
On the Bookshelf
Fusion confusion: comics by journalists, Lutheran rabbis, Jewish pluralism, and pork hamantaschen
On the Bookshelf
Literary lives: as the Seder nears, books by tale-tellers, praiseworthy and otherwise
On the Bookshelf
From the classic to the newfangled: haggadahs for Seders of every shape, size, and stripe
On the Bookshelf
Behind the pink tallis: thoughts on Jewish womanhood from Thomas Edison to Gwyneth Paltrow
On the Bookshelf
From Hodu to Kush: anticipating Purim with books on Persian food, lust-filled kings, and biblical heroines
On the Bookshelf
There are Jews everywhere: books on American Jewish communities from Washington, D.C., to Albuquerque, and others on American Jewish educators
On the Bookshelf
Shifting foundations: of five-legged tables and other theories of Jewish identity
Ben-Gurion
The Tenth Man
The key to Christopher Hitchens wasn’t his iconoclasm; it was his desire for belonging—and the proof can be found in an unexpected place
Cheap Eats
An entrepreneur opened a Jewish-themed restaurant in Lviv, Ukraine. Chopped liver is on the menu, but not its price—diners get to haggle over it.
Grace Notes
Orthodox klezmer and bluegrass virtuoso Andy Statman and evangelical country star Ricky Skaggs cross genres and faiths to form a mighty duo
Goodbye to All That
For generations, the Jews of Caracas had idyllic weather, prosperity, and vibrant communal organizations. Things have changed under Hugo Chávez.
