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The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973) is an oneiric and elusive film, where the sacred and the profane flow interchangeably. Director Wojciech Jerzy Has, drawing on the legacy of Bruno Schulz’s [...]

Ignacio Hutin travels to Vitebsk, Belarus to uncover the city's relationship with the early modernist Marc Chagall

Katherine Leung reviews 100 Best Jewish Recipes and finds that making the perfect challah truly is an artform.

Katherine Leungs explores Jewish Eastern European and Caucasian cooking traditions in a review of Leah Koeing's The Jewish Cookbook.

Avrom Goldfaden (1840-1908) is touted as the father of modern Jewish theatre – but his ambitions were not always community-driven as many would like to believe. The Rise of the Modern [...]

In Homes Away from Home: Jewish Belonging in Twentieth-Century Paris, Berlin, and St. Petersburg (Stanford University Press), Sarah Wobick-Segev compares the experiences of the Jewish populations [...]