Daphne Merkin is an essayist, literary critic and novelist. Her latest book is ‘22 Minutes of Unconditional Love.’
Daphne Merkin
By Daphne Merkin
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News She Contained Multitudes
Ursula Merkin, a philanthropist who played a prominent role in various Jewish institutions, passed away on July 23. Her daughter, novelist and cultural critic Daphne Merkin, delivered the remarks below at a memorial service this week. My mother was one of the most vivid people I’ve ever met. She was full of contrary impulses, all…
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News The Yom Kippur Pedicure
How can it be, you might ask, that such a travesty came to pass? How is it, I mean, that a woman like me, born and bred of preening Orthodox German-Jewish stock, came one evening two years ago to usher in Yom Kippur, the Holiest of Holy Days, in the most faithless way imaginable: by…
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News Exporting Homegrown Culture: Can Israeli Cinema Go Global?
The first and – but can this be? – last truly memorable Israeli film I saw was “Sallah Shabbati.” That was way back in my impressionable, Zionism-infused youth, somewhere in the middle of the giddy 1960s, when Israel still shimmered before the eyes of Jewish day-school children like a biblical fable come true, an as-yet…
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