Digital Library

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store. Why don’t Jews like the Christians who like them? That’s the question James Q. Wilson, one of the America’s most influential political…

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store. How do poetry and song convey Jewish meaning? Does Jewish poetry have to be liturgical? At the turn of the century, Ahad…

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store. Through its countless runs on the Broadway stage and in an award-winning film, Fiddler on the Roof made Tevye the dairyman the…

Does Hebrew literature have a character of its own? And is modern Israeli prose the worthy successor to a more ancient tradition? In “Towards a Hebrew Literature,” published in Azure in 2000, Assaf Inbari analyzes the history of…

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store. It was Thomas Jefferson, in a now-famous letter to the Danbury Baptist Association, who first wrote of a “wall of separation between…

From the Brexit vote in the United Kingdom to Donald Trump’s presidential victory, it appears nationalism is once again resurgent in the English-speaking world. This has sparked a predictable backlash among critics on the Left, but many conservatives…

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store. The revelation at Sinai was central to the transformation of the people of Israel into a nation. Fresh from their Exodus from…

Norman Podhoretz is one of the preeminent intellectuals of the modern era: editor of Commentary for 35 years, master literary critic, piercing political thinker and polemicist, fearless defender of American and Jewish interests. After an early collection of essays,…

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store. Using the essay “Innovation and Redemption: What Literature Means,” Ruth Wisse joins Eric Cohen to discuss the insights of famed literary critic,…

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store. How should Israelis think about the security and defense of the Jewish State when confronted with Palestinian claims to national sovereignty? What…

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