How the modern academic discipline of ‘Jewish Studies’ was invented in Renaissance England by the the greatest Christian Hebraist of the age
Both legendary writers died 400 years ago this week, but only one of them may have had a Jewish background
The ADL director says our interview with Shakespeare expert missed the point
Talking about ‘Merchant of Venice’ and the ADL with Barry Edelstein
Stephen Marche on hypocritical criticism of an Israeli theater group
David Mamet’s The Secret Knowledge, an assault on liberal values and politics, should be viewed not as a polemic but as a yet-to-be-written play about his usual subjects: scams and hustlers
A pound of flesh, a lion with a thorn in his paw, an all-powerful book—a new collection of Jewish folktales from Arab lands sheds light on the universality of the genre
Trying to make sense of Shakespeare’s politics, a complicated web of ideas and contradictions that attracted and repelled some of modern history’s most notorious leaders
Plus the new senator on Israel, Haiti’s president, and more
Yiddish playwright Jacob Gordin inspired fury and adulation
F. Murray Abraham tackles theater’s most vexing villains
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