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How Not to Write a Jewish Fantasy Novel

Of demons and deracination.

Michael Weingrad
Oct. 26 2018 12:01AM

Salman Rushdie, Philip Roth, and British Anti-Semitism

And British insistence that there is no such thing.

Salman Rushdie
Oct. 17 2018 12:01AM

The First-Ever Anthology of Israeli Science Fiction and Fantasy

Grasping the special virtues of Zion’s Fiction.

Michael Weingrad
Oct. 17 2018 12:01AM

Two Forgotten Poems by a Distinguished Yiddish Poetess

Of refugees and pigeons.

Celia Dropkin and Shoshana Olidort
Oct. 16 2018 12:01AM

Jewish Fate and the Soviet-Jewish “Madam Bovary”

Dovid Bergelson’s Yiddish masterpiece and his untimely death.

Dara Horn
Oct. 12 2018 12:01AM

An Informative but Imperfect Biography of Saul Bellow

He was no “is descendant of Machiavelli.”

Saul Bellow
Oct. 11 2018 12:01AM

Lionel Trilling's Jewish Problem

A leading light of the famous New York Intellectuals harbored deeply conflicted feelings about his own Jewishness, and exceptionally harsh views on Jews and Judaism.

Edward Alexander
Oct. 11 2018 12:01AM

Overdoing Stanley Kubrick’s Jewishness

A great filmmaker, but not a New York intellectual.

Frederic Raphael
Oct. 8 2018 12:01AM

The Soviet Union’s Great World War II Novel—and the Great Novel of Soviet Jewry

Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate.

Jacob Howland
Oct. 5 2018 12:01AM

Eugène Delacroix’s Moroccan Jews

And his friend Abraham Benchimol.

Jackson Arn
Oct. 4 2018 12:01AM

Two New Works of Hebrew Fiction Explore the Lives of Israelis in American Academia

From Iowa to Silicon Valley.

Michael Weingrad
Sept. 28 2018 12:01AM

The Cafés Where Modern Jewish Literature Was Born

A Rich Brew.

Jeffrey Yoskowitz
Sept. 28 2018 12:01AM

A Fantasy Work for Children about Medieval Jews, Muslims, and Christians

Swords, dragons, and burning talmuds.

Alan Verskin
Sept. 27 2018 12:01AM

A Literary Glimpse at Orthodox Jerusalem on the Eve of Sukkot, from an Overlooked Hebrew Author

Reb Aryeh’s etrog.

Haim Be’er
Sept. 26 2018 12:01AM
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