Gabriel Sanders
By Gabriel Sanders
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Culture Postwar Germany, Through an African Lens
Somewhere in Germany By Stephanie Zweig, translated by Marlies Comjean University of Wisconsin Press, 280 pages, $24.95. Stephanie Zweig first introduced readers to the Redlich family in her autobiographical novel, “Nowhere in Africa.” Assimilated German Jews who fled Hitler’s Germany in 1938, the family — Walter, Jettel and daughter Regina — spent the war years…
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Israel News Danish and Coffee
Among the more exciting sessions at last month’s Association for Jewish Studies conference in San Diego was one devoted to the furor in the Muslim world over the Danish cartoons of Muhammad. The panel’s most memorable moment, however, had little to do with the cartoons — indeed, little to do with scholarship at all. The…
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Culture Eyeing the Headlines, From the Ivory Tower
In the field of Jewish studies, academic conferences aren’t exactly known for their timeliness. But one panel at last month’s Association for Jewish Studies conference — the largest annual gathering of scholars in the field — proved remarkable for its topicality. Titled “The Danish Cartoons and the Holocaust Analogy,” the discussion — an exploration, in…
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Israel News How To Translate Body Language?
Isaiah Sheffer is in a bind. The artistic director of New York’s Symphony Space and the host of National Public Radio’s “Selected Shorts,” Sheffer was asked by the National Yiddish Theatre-Folksbiene to direct a staged reading of Neil Simon’s “The Sunshine Boys” in Yiddish for a January 7 benefit. In and of itself, this shouldn’t…
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News Founder Retakes Reins of Liberal Mag, Plans Less Israel Coverage
As two of his top editors leave to work on other projects, Michael Lerner, editor of the liberal Jewish bimonthly Tikkun, has indicated that he is looking to redirect his magazine’s energies away from Israel and toward a greater focus on interfaith matters. In a December 4 e-mail to writers for the magazine, and in…
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Culture The Portable Legacy
Lubavitch Hasidim may be torn over the earthly status of their erstwhile rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, but if there is a matter on which the movement’s adherents can find common ground, it is the sacredness of the sect’s world headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn. On the surface, 770…
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News Lerner Reaches Out to President Carter
While leaders from across the Jewish spectrum have rushed to condemn former president Jimmy Carter and his new book “Palestine: Peace not Apartheid,” at least one prominent Jewish figure has headed in the opposite direction. Michael Lerner, founding editor of the liberal bimonthly Tikkun, wrote in an email to the magazine’s contributors early this month…
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Culture Double Vision
Does a scholar’s theory render moot the debate about a play’s antisemitism? Shylock is Shakespeare By Kenneth Gross University of Chicago Press, 184 pages, $22.50 Sometimes, when the traditional tools of the trade just don’t cut it, a scholar is forced to get creative. In the closing pages of “Freud’s Moses,” a 1991 study of…
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