Even covering eight–10 titles each week, On the Bookshelf doesn’t always mention every book of Jewish interest that has been published. In the hopes of atoning to wronged authors and readers, On the Bookshelf’s Yom Kippur column will highlight a selection of such neglected titles. If you’ve noticed a deserving book that has been published ...

The documentary Inventing Our Life: The Kibbutz Experiment looks at the kibbutz movement at 100. In Tablet Magazine’s fourth installment of the work in progress, filmmaker Toby Perl Freilich examines the challenges facing the third generation of Kibbutz members.
SEE PART 1: Toby Perl Freilich introduces Inventing Our Life
SEE PART 2: The birth of kibbutzim and ...

In 1947, Jacob Taubes arrived at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York as a 24-year-old Orthodox rabbi with a newly minted doctorate in philosophy from Zurich and a wildly self-assured sense that he had begun to solve the mystery of Western culture. His first book, Occidental Eschatology—a sweeping study of the influence of messianic ...

In 1943, Hannah Arendt reviewed the memoirs of Stefan Zweig, one of the leading literary figures of fin-de-siècle Vienna. Like the vast majority of those figures—the playwrights and journalists, psychoanalysts and art collectors who made the Austro-Hungarian capital perhaps the most sophisticated city in the world—Zweig was Jewish. But this Jewish golden age was always ...

Readers: Even covering 8-10 titles each week, On the Bookshelf doesn’t always mention every book of Jewish interest that has been published. In the hopes of atoning to wronged authors and readers, On the Bookshelf’s Yom Kippur column will highlight a selection of such neglected titles. If you’ve noticed a deserving book that has been ...

The documentary Inventing Our Life: The Kibbutz Experiment looks at the kibbutz movement at 100. In Tablet Magazine’s third installment of the work in progress, filmmaker Toby Perl Freilich looks at joys and heartbreaks of growing up in a kibbutz.
SEE PART 1: Toby Perl Freilich introduces Inventing Our Life
SEE PART 2: The birth of kibbutzim ...