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Holocaust Kitsch

A 1967 opera set in Auschwitz, unperformed until a year ago, is tawdry in its plot, derivative in its music, and of doubtful integrity in its purposes.The Fast of Fasts

In rabbinic times, when a Jew spoke of "the fast," there was no need to be more specific—as even a passage in the New Testament interestingly attests.New Ottoman Empire?

In the uncertain wake of the Arab Spring, Turkey is trying to reassert itself as the leader of the surrounding Arab countries. How? By escalating tensions with Israel.Non serviam

In granting the writer Yoram Kaniuk the right to be officially registered as "without religion" (rather than Jewish), Israel has taken a giant step toward the legal separation of religion and state.The Mind of Trilling

It was Lionel Trilling's "moral imagination" that enabled him to venture into areas normally foreign to literary critics—including Jewish philosophy.