Dara Horn
By Dara Horn
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Culture Imagination as a Group Effort
Among the recurring questions that I and other writers are often asked — along with, “How long did it take you to write the book?” and “Do you use a pencil or a pen?” — there is one that almost always comes up: “Is anyone else in your family a writer?” Those who ask this…
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News A Marriage that Means More in Fiction Than in Fact;
My wedding took place just before the current intifada started. While I know this is a meaningless coincidence, I’ve often thought that if I were a literary character, there might be some odd symbolism lurking between my peaceful marriage and the agony in Israel over the past three years. This literary character, of course, would…
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News The Luck of the Yiddish
If you look up “translate” in a dictionary, you may be surprised to find that the first definition is “to bring into the afterlife, without causing death.” This isn’t as peculiar as it sounds. The rabbis teach us that our world is like a vestibule, a waiting room where we prepare ourselves for the World…
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News Learn From Their Mistakes? Not These Lusty Dreamers
The Letters of Menakhem-Mendl and Sheyne-Sheyndl and Motl, the Cantor’s Son By Sholem Aleichem Translated by Hillel Halkin Yale, 325 pages, $29.95. * * *| The World According to Itzik: Selected Prose and Poetry By Itzik Manger Translated by Leonard Wolf Yale, 249 pages, $29.95. * * *| In the past hundred years, two Yiddish…
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