The Jewish artist who almost died exploring the Wild West
Carvalho documented a dangerous expedition to California in the days of Manifest Destiny
Carvalho documented a dangerous expedition to California in the days of Manifest Destiny
In 'Chai Noon,' Jonathan Friedmann explores the Jewish history of Westerns, on and off screen.
Every March brings us Women’s History Month. Among this year’s highlights is the publication of a new biography of an American Jewish woman — Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp — by another American Jewish woman, Ann Kirschner. If the Earp name sounds familiar, that’s because Josephine’s common-law husband, Wyatt, has occupied the limelight of American Old…
The opening scene of Anna Solomon’s new book “The Little Bride” is one of the most harrowing that I’ve read in a novel. The reader meets 16-year-old Minna Losk in a dank basement where she is ordered to undress and then inspected like an animal. Orphaned at 11 and sent into indentured servitude to a…
די נײַע אױסגאַבע באַטאָנט דעם בײַטראָג פֿון סאָװעטישע ייִדישע שרײַבער אין דער אַנטװיקלונג פֿון דער מאָדערנער ייִדישער קולטור.
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