Thomas Mann and his son Klaus Mann both wrote novels that updated Goethe’s ‘Faust’ for the horrors of the 20th century. Whose version will be remembered?
Newly restored, Chagall’s America Windows—conceived in honor of the 1976 bicentennial and popularized in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off—sparkle as never before
There are two stories of Germany and Jews: the culture of assimilated German Jews and the meeting of German culture with Jewish religion
In Wait, poet C.K. Williams looks to literary antecedents for help in locating his Jewishness
The dark side of divine inspiration: one writer’s cautionary tale
A haftorah of misgivings and misplaced trust