Wendy Smith is a contributing editor of the American Scholar. SHOCKING PARIS By Stanley Meisler Palgrave Macmillan. 238 pp. $26 Although they were eventually dubbed "the School of Paris," the ...

At Art Basel in Miami a few weeks ago, it rained a lot, and some critics scorned the commercial excess with extra sharpness. For Basel art in Washington on a recent morning, the sun lit the season’s ...

During the uneasy interlude between the two calamitous world wars, one of history’s most spectacular assemblies of immigrant Jewish artists gathered in the City of Light, Paris. They were called The ...

The Memphis-born American Jewish novelist Steve Stern, 74, has long been inspired by Jewish folklore and a dream-like Yiddish literary tradition in the vein of I. L. Peretz, Itzik Manger, and Lamed ...

The forgotten legacy of Henri Serouya, historian, intellectual, philosopher, author of many acclaimed books and learned articles, all in French was found by the author in a suitcase in a basement. A ...

So many of the artists in "Marc Chagall and His Circle" at the Philadelphia Museum -- including Marc Chagall himself -- seem stuck between Modernism and Traditionalism, if Traditionalism means making ...