Jewish Review of Books
Jewish Review of Books, Akiva Schick, Abe Socher, Shai Secunda, Allan Arkush, Benjamin BalintThe Jewish Review of Books is a quarterly print publication with an active online presence for serious readers with Jewish interests.
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In and Out of My Father’s Court
By Mira Balberg
There is an old joke about the five Jews that transformed history: Moses said that everything was law, Jesus said that everything was love, Marx said that everything was about money, Freud said that everything was abou...
Why Can’t We Be Friends (Again)?
By Jonathan Karp
Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History
created by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
PBS
One could fill a small library with books about Black-Jewish relations, but I expect the ones written by Jews would take u...
Three Summer Highlights (& a Deal)
I was just trudging up the backstairs of our odd, old building in Cleveland Heights—French Norman Revival with a touch of Tudor and lots of Ohio sandstone, commissioned by John D. Rockefeller Jr.—and worrying about the fall issue, when I re...
New JRB Fellowship in NYC!
The Jewish Review of Books is proud to partner with the Center for Jewish History on a new fellowship in criticism and public scholarship for 2026-2027. The JRB editorial fellow will participate with other fellows in the CJH’s Institute for...
New Issue! And a Thirteen-Gun Salute
As America gets ready to celebrate its semiquincentennial (a word we do not approve of at JRB), we’re hitting our sweet sixteen and launching the new summer issue with a fantastic review by Jenna Weissman Joselit of the Weitzman National Mu...
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A quarterly magazine of Jewish criticism, religion, and culture and monthly web-exclusive reviews and essays.
Associate Editor of the Jewish Review of Books
Editor of the Jewish Review of Books, author of Liberal & Illiberal Arts: Essays (Mostly Jewish)
Contributing editor at the Jewish Review of Books, professor at Bard College, and author of The Iranian Talmud and The Talmud’s Red Fence
Benjamin Balint is the author of "Kafka’s Last Trial," winner of the Sami Rohr Prize in Jewish Literature. His most recent book, "Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History," won a National Jewish Book Award.
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