Allan Nadler
By Allan Nadler
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News ‘The Barbed Embrace’;
Judaism and Enlightenment By Adam Sutcliffe Cambridge University Press 338 pages, $60. * * *| Freud and the Non-European By Edward Said Verso, 108 pages, $19. * * *| Like a wily virus, constantly mutating to survive its changing hosts, antisemitism has been a constant blight on the otherwise rich and complicated history of the…
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News Can New Agers Channel the Old Rebbes’ Spirit?
‘We are the heirs of the chasidism that would have been created by all the rebbes who were killed in the Holocaust,” Daniel Siegel told the 200 Jewish spiritual seekers who gathered last month for the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan’s “Awakening, Yearning and Renewal: A Conference on the Hasidic Roots of Contemporary Jewish Spiritual…
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Culture Mapping the Contours of a ‘New Tanakh’
The Modern Jewish Canon By Ruth Wisse Free Press, 395 pages, $28. In the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust, the Yiddish writer Melekh Ravitch ignited a heated controversy in Jewish intellectual circles by calling for the redaction of a secular Jewish canon that he dubbed “a new Tanakh.” He proposed the creation of an authoritative…
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