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What May Be Highly Relevant

What May Be Highly Relevant

By Rivka Galchen
In this short story, a psychiatrist uses unconventional means to save a patient
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Truth or Dare

Truth or Dare

By Rachel Shukert
A childhood obsession with the Holocaust
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Radical Riff

Radical Riff

Interview by Sara Ivry
How comedians of the 1960s and ’70s revolutionized stand-up Audio
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Outsider in the Promised Land

Outsider in the Promised Land

by Paul La Farge
The hero of Shimon Ballas’ latest novel is a Jewish speechwriter for Saddam Hussein
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The Truth Seeker

The Truth Seeker

By Adam Kirsch
Gershom Scholem’s youthful diaries reveal an impassioned, uncompromising spirit
04.09.08 COMMENTS (3)


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Mina Loy, who turned 18 in 1900, was intent on fashioning herself as a new woman for a new century.

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In His Own Words
The Times Literary Supplement explores the concept of intertextuality in a review of The Cambridge Companion to Primo Levi. Contributors see Levi as "a double agent, engaged in 'ironic rewriting of divine utterances in secular terms.'"
05.08.08 | EMAIL | PERMALINK

The Cat Came Back
The Rabbi's Cat 2, the latest installment in Joann Sfar's graphic novel series about an observant talking feline in 1930s Algeria, drifts "between precise historical details, enthusiastic tall tales and meditations on what it means to live as a person of faith in a world that doesn't share it," says Douglas Wolk.
05.07.08 | EMAIL | PERMALINK

Silver Lining
In his upcoming book, provocateur Avraham Burg reiterates that the Holocaust must be remembered, "but no longer by prostrating ourselves in the dust." Perhaps he would be buoyed by an "oddly vibrant exhibition" at Yad Vashem featuring the contributions of survivors, particularly in the design realm.
05.06.08 | EMAIL | PERMALINK

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