What I Learned from Teaching Black Literature
In the late 1960s, Jewish professor Michael Krasny stepped in to teach Black Literature at San Francisco State University.
Book Review | A Rebbe with a Fiddle and No Followers
“There is much to be charmed by in this novel and even more to learn from it.”
Kavod, Koved: In Search of Honor
Honor and how it is sought, interpreted and lived remains an elusive concept among Americans and throughout the world.
“Incitement” Takes Us into the Mind of Rabin’s Assassin
The filmmaker went to major lengths to use what he called distancing devices—shots at odd angles and no melody—to keep the audience from identifying with the murderer.