With a penetrating new film on the Public Library, the master documentary filmmaker continues his generous 50-year X-ray view of the human systems behind American democratic life
Rokhl’s Golden City: What decomposing unearthed silent-film stock has to say to Yiddishists
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
And other odd questions from the NYPL’s pre-Internet days
Louise Sylvia Katz checked out Ludwig Lewisohn’s Israel in 1928
Lost Books
A new book tells the story of a middle-class Jewish girl from Westchester who changed her name, moved to Pakistan, and became a leading voice of radical Islamism
The edited typescript of “Eichmann in Jerusalem” reveals New Yorker editor William Shawn’s meticulous work
In this week’s “Tell Me,” Tablet Magazine’s illustrated question-and-answer column, we revisit the Four Questions—and watch as New York wakes up from its wintery slumber
A multicultural ‘Moth’ at the New York Public Library
