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ESSAY
Slights Unseen
A dozen years ago, critics saw Donald Margulies bring a Philip Roth character to the stage. Some scenes have aged better than others.
BY STEPHEN VIDER
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INTERVIEW
Coat of Many Colors
Sometimes mistaken for an Israeli, novelist Danzy Senna crafts biracial heroines who try on and shrug off cloaks of identity.
INTERVIEW BY SUSAN COMNINOS
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LISTENING BOOTH
Crazy Talk
Jonathan Goldstein riffs on his Hebrew name, gifted students, space aliens, and other things he thinks you should know about him.
TEXT BY STEPHEN VIDER
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ESSAY
Broad Strokes
The Jewish Museum avoids making Modigliani into his generation's Jim Morrison, but does it paint itself into a corner with another cliché?
BY DAVID GROSZ
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INTERVIEW
Budapest Gadfly
While most of his peers associate their heritage only with suffering, Gábor Szántó embraces tradition as the best form of rebellion.
INTERVIEW BY MICHAEL STANDAERT
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READING
Out of the Picture
An attraction to artists and exiles—men who would ultimately leave—comes into focus through the filter of an absent grandfather.
BY JOYCE JOHNSON
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ESSAY
Hidden Sympathies
A dubious portrait of Shostakovich as dissident has been debunked, but motifs in his work underscore his discord with Soviet power.
BY JAMES LOEFFLER
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INTERVIEW
Damn Yankees
Essayist David Shields considers how sports loyalty is the new American religion—and whether Howard Cosell changed his life.
INTERVIEW BY BLAKE ESKIN
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LISTENING BOOTH
Beach Reading
Hear streaming audio of three short stories by Israeli writer Etgar Keret as well as excerpts from his recent conversation with Ira Glass.
TEXT BY SARA IVRY
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INTERVIEW
Up Close and Personal?
When Walter Abish wrote about Germany sight unseen, critics tried to explain him. Does his memoir make him any easier to read?
INTERVIEW BY AARON RETICA
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GALLERY
Five Kids
El Lissitzky's revolutionary take on a medieval Passover song, and a contemporary illustrator has a fresh look at the Seder's four sons.
TEXT BY SARA IVRY
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ESSAY
Survivor Challenge
Ten years after Jerry Seinfeld got caught necking during Schindler's List , reverence for the Holocaust still makes Larry David squirm.
BY STEPHEN VIDER
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INTERVIEW
Mommie Dearest
Russia may torment Pavel Lounguine, but the filmmaker can't help himself. He keeps returning to explore their messy relationship.
INTERVIEW BY BORIS FISHMAN
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INTERVIEW
In the Company of Strangers
Why does Antonio Muñoz Molina invoke 15th-century Spain in his hybrid tale about the tragic displacements of the past 100 years?
INTERVIEW BY ROBIN CEMBALEST
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ESSAY
Fiddler Crabs
Preemptive strikes denounced an "ethnically cleansed" revival, and critics took the bait. But does nostalgia really honor tradition?
BY BLAKE ESKIN
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INTERVIEW
Cross Promotion
Mel Gibson's marriage of the action film and the Passion play has people talking. These three know what they're talking about.
INTERVIEW BY MATTHEW BROGAN
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INTERVIEW
Wide Angles
After training a sensitive lens on Hasidism, Menachem Daum rotated the camera, exposing his Orthodox sons to the humanity of others.
INTERVIEW BY SARA IVRY
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INTERVIEW
Connecting With Dots
Abraham Nemeth has lighted the path for his blind brethren to find their place in higher mathematics—and in the Sabbath service.
INTERVIEW BY BLAKE ESKIN
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ESSAY
Preservation Squall
The Milken Archive is trying to capture American Jewish music, but its first CDs raise doubts as to whether it can properly be called archival.
BY PAUL MITCHINSON
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ESSAY
Hot for Teacher
Long after Hannah Arendt stopped being his "saucy wood nymph," Martin Heidegger had absolute control of their heady correspondence.
BY ADAM KIRSCH
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INTERVIEW
Living in a Material World
The spiritual fad of the new millennium hinges on a cryptic, erotic, medieval text. If anyone can explain why, it's Daniel Matt.
INTERVIEW BY SARA IVRY
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INTERVIEWS
Conference Calls
A sampling of presentations from the 35th annual Association for Jewish Studies meeting
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INTERVIEW
In Another Voice
If most American girls lose their confidence as they mature, what happens in a religious community that segregates the sexes?
INTERVIEW BY SARA IVRY
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Faith in the Agnostic State
As Europe wrestles with the preamble to its constitution, Joseph Weiler is fighting for an acknowledgement of the continent's Christian past.
INTERVIEW BY SARA IVRY
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INTERVIEW
An Ancient Constitution
Thinkers of the 17th century saw the Greek polis and Roman republic as models for democracy. Another source, now forgotten, was Israelite society, says Fania Oz-Salzberger.
INTERVIEW BY KRISTIN ELIASBERG
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READING
'To Be Poor Meant Also To Be Free'
Chicago was a place where aspiring intellectuals in their twenties debated Freud and Balzac in "one-arm joints" not far from the gangsters, stockyards, and immigrants who struggled simply to exist.
BY SAUL BELLOW
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'Blessed With This Sense of the Exotic'
Since the American language was available to everyone, Bellow and his Jewish peers were determined to "use it with a certain spirit."
BY SAUL BELLOW
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'Strangely Independent of Place'
Augie March, who turns 50 this year, starts his journey in Chicago. Bellow avoided it altogether while creating this legendary character, but no matter where he went, the city dominated his imagination.
BY SAUL BELLOW
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INTERVIEW
Lost in the Supermarket
Alan Wolfe found Americans around the country change faiths as frequently as they change their diets. What does this mean for a 5,000-year old tradition?
INTERVIEW BY SARA IVRY
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ESSAY
Brooklyn Dodger
Is being Jewish really "the least defining thing" about Dylan Ebdus? Or is it the underlying central thread in The Fortress of Solitude?
BY BLAKE ESKIN
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