Yiddishkeit

The last fully realized work by Harvey Pekar illuminates the bluntness and delight of American Yiddish in the last century. A new excerpt.

Letters Lost and Found

Type designer Scott-Martin Kosofsky explains the creation of Le Bé, his new digitization of a beautiful 16th-century Hebrew typeface. It debuts in The Selected Poems of Yehuda Halevi, a Nextbook Press e-book published this week.

Q&A: Noam Chomsky

The world’s most important leftist intellectual talks about his Zionist childhood and his time with Hezbollah

Israelispeak

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Lost in Translation

A Ramallah man struggles to find a reading public for Maimonides

‘The Leviathan,’ in Hebrew

Hobbes classic gets its first full Hebrew translation

Sundown: Obama’s Jewish Brother

Plus Ponzi fatigue, mother tongues, and a strange souvenir

Sundown: The Big Questions

On Halloween, heresy, and Hitler

Sundown: Hebrew’s Not Just for Jews

A starving school, an appetite for Israel, and the finer points of slaughter

Sundown: Mother Tongue

Pundit love, school apartheid, and Zappa’s birthright