For days after the disaster, Alan Kaufman says, he felt compelled to look at the ruins. Gazing at the aftermath of the March 26 explosion on Second Avenue and Seventh Street that killed two people and destroyed three buildings on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, he remembered how terrifying it was when he was…
Drunken Angel By Alan Kaufman Viva Editions, 464 pages, $25 Too Much to Dream: A Psychedelic American Boyhood By Peter Bebergal Soft Skull Press, 232 pages, $15.95 Jewish culture has always sought a balance between texts of the halachic, or legal realm, and those of the Aggadah, or narrative. Not only does the Aggadah explain…
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