Photo caption Some of the oldest gold objects made by humans (4600–4400 BCE) are on display at Chicago’s Field Museum in “First Kings of Europe.” —Courtesy of the Varna Regional Museum of History, Bulgaria. © Field Museum, Ádám Vágó Winter 2024 Volume 45, Issue 1 SUBSCRIBE FOR HUMANITIES MAGAZINE PRINT EDITION Browse all issues Sign up for HUMANITIES Magazine newsletter Also in this issue What Is a Relay Language? Russian literature shaped the development of Korean culture after being translated into Japanese Steve Moyer How Gary Cooper Became the Face of Polish Resistance The repurposing of an image from a classic American western Hannah Stamler The Heroines of Old-Time Music Virginia Sophie Castro Nez Perce Collection Comes Home Washington Trevor James Bond Severed Heads and Women Artists A show of premodern work dazzles in Baltimore Angelica Aboulhosn When Music Remembers Art in the wake of atrocity Jeremy Eichler The Mesmerizing Sounds of Klezmer How traditional Jewish music came to America, where it found new generations of listeners Yale Strom Editor’s Note David Skinner New Hampshire’s Michael Haley Goldman Individual lives overlap in the Granite State Alex Hanson
What Is a Relay Language? Russian literature shaped the development of Korean culture after being translated into Japanese Steve Moyer
How Gary Cooper Became the Face of Polish Resistance The repurposing of an image from a classic American western Hannah Stamler
The Mesmerizing Sounds of Klezmer How traditional Jewish music came to America, where it found new generations of listeners Yale Strom