
A new commentary on Jewish musicology, arts, & culture.
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Portrait of Maimonides at Haifa Medical Center (Source)
The medieval scholar Moshe ben Maimon (d. 1204), known also as Maimonides, still looms over Jewish law, scholarship, and culture a full millennium following his death. His ingenious a...
On a recent flight to Germany, I thought to take advantage of the international flavor of Lufthansa’s in-flight entertainment. Felicitously, I found a film about one of Germany’s most famous writers — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)....
“Something is stirring,
Shifting ground ?
It’s just begun.
Edges are blurring
All around,
And yesterday is done.”
-Stephen Sondheim, Merrily We Roll Along
On a long plane ride back from Germany, I watched the Broadway revival of...
Scream, a self-aware film (Source)
All genres have a lifecycle. They grow, flourish, and the best (or sometimes worst) of them become canonized, cooling into solid rock even as a volcanic, new style is flowing forth over the land. You can...
Valdemar Atterdag Holding Visby to Ransom, 1361 (1882)by Carl Gustaf Hellqvist.
This past week, I had two terrible feelings.
The first was getting COVID-19. The second was seeing hate come home to roost in my corner of academia.
My in...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Matt Austerklein is a cantor and scholar studying the religious meaning of Jewish musical forms. He is the editor of 3 books, and publishes his research, religious thought, and musical musings on Substack.
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