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The Public Man

Saul Bellow's letters offer a clue to the late novelist's unique ability to escape the eclipse of fame and forgetting.Benefits of Egypt’s Revolution

The upsides include the possibility that a democratic Egypt will have an incentive to check, rather than to promote, anti-Semitic propaganda.A Lost World?

Antony Polonsky's magisterial The Jews in Poland and Russia demonstrates the vibrancy and diversity of Jewish life in Eastern Europe while correcting romanticized misrepresentations.Schubert Reimagined

A concert work for voice and piano, in Yiddish, is based on a conceptual connection to Schubert's Winterreise—and a powerful elegiac connection to a vanished but still vibrant civilization.Peace from the Bottom-Up

As fresh winds sweep the Arab Middle East, the former Soviet political prisoner and author of The Case for Democracy is feeling a certain vindication. (Interview by David Horovitz.)Be My (Jewish) Valentine

Why does Cupid, the Roman god of love, appear above the main entrance of the synagogue at Capernaum in Israel, as well as on Jewish paintings and sarcophagi in Rome?  Graying the Line

Do literary treatments of the Holocaust necessarily trivialize the horror? According to Ruth Franklin, everything depends on the artist at work, and the artistry.  A Christian Ketubah

The traditional wedding contract joins Passover seders and kosher food among Jewish practices incorporated by Gentiles acting out of a variety of impulses.If You Will It–African-Style

As South Sudan moves toward independence, hundreds of refugees who sought asylum in Israel are returning to build the new state; one of them is hoping to duplicate the Israeli kibbutz there.The Newspaperman

The founding editor of the English-language Forward and the New York Sun speaks about his career, the U.S. Senate without Joseph Lieberman, and answers to fifty-year-old crossword puzzles.  (Interview by Elliot Resnick.)