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Remembering the Inspirational Legacy of Aharon Megged
The Israeli writer Aharon Megged, who died on March 23 at age 95, was paradoxically multifaceted. His parents made Aliyah from their native Poland in 1926, changing the family name from Greenberg. Megged was part of a generation of pioneers who were ostensibly critical of the Diaspora, yet nourished culturally by European roots. As his…
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Forward Looking Back
1916 100 Years Ago I’m writing these lines at the bazaar. Around me is a sea of loud voices. Music is playing, and conversation rings out on all sides. Light is streaming into the giant hall. It’s not just a hall — it’s more like a big field. And in this field, human hands have…
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Remembering the Heyday of Yiddish Theater
‘New York’s Yiddish Theater: From the Bowery to Broadway” is published to coincide with an exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York. Its editor is the exhibit’s curator Edna Nahshon, professor of theater at the Jewish Theological Seminary and senior associate at Oxford University’s Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. Recently the…
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How A.J. Liebling Became BFF’s With Albert Camus
Seventy years ago, on March 27, 1946, the renowned New Yorker writer A.J. Liebling fell in love. Bard of battered boxers and Bowery boozers, Liebling had not, however, fallen for one of the many dolls in his life. Instead, he fell for a guy — or, better yet, an ideal embodied by this particular guy….
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This Isn’t Boris Fishman’s First ‘Rodeo’
I read most of Boris Fishman’s “Don’t Let My Baby Do Rodeo” on a bus that was bringing me back to New York City after a weekend spent upstate. The wintry landscape flashing by was beautiful in a bleak way: leafless forests, gentle hills. That afternoon, as I worked my way through the second part…
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The Enduring Mysteries of Raoul Wallenberg
Raoul Wallenberg: The Heroic Life and Mysterious Disappearance of the Man Who Saved Thousands of Hungarian Jews From the Holocaust By Ingrid Carlberg, with an introduction by Kofi Annan; translated by Ebba Segerberg MacLehose Press, 639 pages, $29.99 He was the multilingual scion of a powerful Swedish banking family, a gifted artist and architect, a…
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Art Legendary Jewish Civil Rights Photographer Bob Adelman Meets a Tragic End
There is tragic irony in the circumstances surrounding the mysterious death on March 19 of American Jewish Civil Rights photographer Bob Adelman. An ongoing police investigation will attempt to explain how Adelson, 85, was found dead with a head injury in his Miami Beach home. During arduous years as the national photographer for the Congress…
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Isn’t There Someone Out There Who Wants To Buy Alan Dershowitz’s Judaica?
I have to preface this story by admitting that I did not know who Alan Dershowitz was until about a month ago. (Hi, Alan.) I was writing a different article for this newspaper, about the collection of the Valmadonna, a famous Judaica library broken up and sold in pieces, and I was speaking with an…
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Remembering Geoffrey Hartman — Wordsworthian, Critic and Holocaust Scholar
“Heaven lies about us in our infancy!” wrote William Wordsworth, one of Geoffrey Hartman’s beloved Romantics. “Shades of the prison-house begin to close/Upon the growing boy.” For Hartman, in 2010 proclaimed by his Yale colleague Paul Fry to be “arguably the finest Wordsworth critic who has ever written,” those lines from “Ode on Intimations of…
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Purim and Encounters With Bigotry — Including Our Own
Some time ago, I came across the Twitter feed of a prominent American Jewish writer in which I noticed several disparaging remarks about ultra-Orthodox Jews, with liberal use of words like “parasites,” “psycho Haredim” and other choice denigrations. Whoa, I thought, that’s a bit harsh, and I tweeted at the writer, saying so. Another writer,…
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The strange and violent history of the ordinary grogger
Some 19th-century groggers are constructed to allow users to hang Haman over and over again
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