The strong-willed scholar of Jewish life and history died 29 years ago today
Rokhl’s Golden City: When YIVO co-founder Max Weinreich died 50 years ago, one newspaper’s reminiscence revealed the splits in the Yiddish world
Rokhl’s Golden City: Why I’m skipping the beach to spend the season studying
How an academic field—marked by petty fighting, misguided ideological debates, and personal proximity to tragedy—doomed itself
The latest ‘Jewish Review of Books’