American Jews seem always to have had a special expertise at magazining. Think of the New Yorker, Commentary, the Weekly Standard, Dissent, and so on. Not to mention back in Weimar Germany—the flurry of publications coming and going described in Gershom Scholem’s Walter Benjamin: the Story of a Friendship puts a meteor shower to shame. So what about the latest crop of them, asks n + 1?

The new Jewish magazines came all at once in the first years of this decade. September 11 formed their background more than it informed their contents; further back and more explicit was the breakdown of the peace talks at Camp David in the summer of 2000 and the start of the Second Intifada that September.
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And we began this essay with the intention of denouncing them.

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