Aaron Hamburger
By Aaron Hamburger
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Culture Return of the European Jew
Being Jewish in the New Germany By Jeffrey M. Peck Rutgers University Press, 224 pages, $24.95. Turning the Kaleidoscope: Perspectives on European Jewry Edited by Sandra Lustig and Ian Leveson Berghahn Books, 288 pages, $80. In 1946, Robert Welsch, a German Jewish journalist who had fled to Palestine during World War II, went back to…
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Opinion The Last Best Hope For Religious Continuity: Gays
In an age when religious activists frequently lament that their faith is under constant attack by secularism, gays could prove to be religion’s last best hope. It’s a lesson I’ve learned keenly from personal experience. As a child, I read the Bible literally and decided I wanted to become a prophet when I grew up….
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Culture Doomed Love and Melancholy
Publishers are notoriously reluctant to take on story collections, perhaps in part because unlike novels, a story collection has to justify its own existence. It isn’t enough for a story collection to be well written, poignant and intelligent. Why, readers ask themselves, have these eight to 12 stories been juxtaposed between the same covers? In…
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