Tablet’s Broadway preview features Nick Kroll playing an old Jewish New Yorker, the music of Irving Berlin, and a play co-written by the late Ben Hecht

A talk about the famed composer at New York’s Eldridge Street Synagogue included performances by the cast of ‘Holiday Inn: The New Irving Berlin Musical,’ who sang the little-known ‘Yiddisha Eskimo’

Images of Palestine and Egypt in 1894, new immigrants arriving at Ellis Island at the turn of the 20th century, a 14th century mahzor, Irving Berlin, and so much more

All is not as it was for Jews in America

Die Hard, Scrooged, Trading Places, and more

The Red Star Line carried half a million Jewish refugees from Europe as they fled pogroms, anti-Semitism, and the Nazis

The historical relationship—and the proximity to power it afforded—enabled wider acceptance of Jews in America

The top 10 Christmas songs written by Jews, from ‘Silver Bells’ to ‘Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow’

Site of famous coaster up for sale

What are the 100 greatest Jewish songs ever? Tablet Magazine’s musicologists rank them all, from sacred to pop to hip-hop, from Rabbi Akiva to Amy Winehouse.

The ten best holiday songs penned by Jews

A new history argues that it was a single play—Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!—that ushered in the beginning of Broadway’s Golden Age

Rufus, Sting, Lou Reed, and a celebration of David Lehman’s Nextbook Press book

What the new Tin Pan Alley Rag teaches us about Irving Berlin and the other Jews who wrote the American songbook

Parodies that make us cringe today used to make people roar. A music critic discovers Abie Cohen, the Jewish version of Aunt Jemima.