Arts & Culture

Living, reading, watching and listening Jewishly—that’s the crux of Moment’s Arts & Culture section. Here you can find book reviews, poetry, fiction, art and music. Don’t miss our fantastic interviews with artists and musicians.

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Test your knowledge of Passover trivia, from oldest known complete Haggadah manuscript to Barack Obama's White House seder. ...

The Torah is full of oenophiles: One of Noah’s first actions after emerging from the ark is to plant a

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At home in Berlin in April 1929, Albert Einstein received an urgent telegram from Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein of New

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By Ilona Oltuski Pianist Elisha Abas – Scriabin in the Genes The ante has just been upped: at the personal

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Books in Brief: Senior editor Eileen Lavine reviews new and forthcoming titles A Grain of Truth by Zygmunt Miloszewski (translated from the

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Jon D. Levenson reviews Ronald Hendel's new book, The Book of Genesis: A Biography. ...
Morris Dickstein reviews A.B. Yehoshua's new novel, The Retrospective. ...
Marc Fisher reviews FDR and the Jews, by Richard Breitman and Allan J. Lichtman. ...

  Kaskel’s Chutzpah By Gary Stein   “Your people must leave all the villages,” the government official barked. “The district

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Anti-Semites who loved Jews—and the Jews who (sometimes) loved them back. ...

With the Oscars less than two weeks away, take Moment‘s quiz to test your knowledge of holy men (and women)

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Brian Epstein, the man who discovered the Beatles and shaped them into the biggest music sensation of the 20th century,

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