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I wrote a short "stack" for @JRBooks about the secret history of Wu's Wonton King & the Yiddish left jewishreviewofbooks.substack…
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“Too often one is not quite sure that one is breathing the same air as that of Maimonides and his great interpreters.”
Yehuda Halper on a new English translation of the Guide of the Perplexed: jewishreviewofbooks.com/rabb…
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Maimonides himself complained that his first Hebrew translator was too literal. Eight centuries later, English readers face the same choice: a smooth new translation of the Guide, or Pines’s famously literal one. Yehuda Halper reviews it here: jewishreviewofbooks.com/rabb…
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Two new books about anti-Zionism, by Molly Crabapple and Benjamin Moser, struggle with the historical facts around them. From our Fall Issue, read Allan Arkush's "Anti Zionist, A-Historical:" jewishreviewofbooks.substack…
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“Timshel,” the supposedly Hebrew word at the heart of Steinbeck’s East of Eden, doesn’t quite work in Hebrew. In the archives (Fall 2022), Sheila Tuller Keiter offers a theory for how the error happened.
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For our Fall issue, @MattiFriedman reviews Amos Harel's 06:29—"the staggering, infuriating, and illuminating new Hebrew account of October 7 and its aftermath." Read "Tragic Failure" here: jewishreviewofbooks.com/cont…
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This article by Shai Secunda - interviewing a diverse array of 8 Israelis who are 2 degrees of separation from him - is brilliant. Really brings home how fault lines run through close, crowded neighborhoods and families. jewishreviewofbooks.com/cont… @JRBooks
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In our fall issue, Shaul Kelner reviews @DaraHorn's new book, The Final Solution to the Jewish Question: A Love Story for the Living . Read "Tough Love" here: jewishreviewofbooks.com/amer…
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For our fall issue, Benjamin Weiner reviews Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey," its relationship to politics, and a classic work of criticism, Erich Auerbach's "Mimesis." Read it here:
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"If Galicia has an afterlife, it is because it was from the start a quarrel over how Jews could become modern without forfeiting the burdens and ballast of memory."
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Matti Friedman: “Netanyahu sent the country into a spiral of protests and paralysis that created an opportunity obvious to Israel’s enemies. No Israeli leader has ever failed so badly and with such dire repercussions.” jewishreviewofbooks.com/cont…
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"'Galicia' as a literary idea can hold hope and dread, comedy and martyrdom, attachment and recoil." Benjamin Balint reviews a new book on Joseph Roth and Soma Morgenstern. Read "Two Galitzianers," from the fall issue: jewishreviewofbooks.com/jewi…
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Essential reading: Tragic Failure - a review of “06:29” by Amos Harel: “The closest thing [Israel has had] … to a commission of inquiry into what went wrong on Oct. 7” via @MattiFriedman in @JRBooks
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The closest thing we have to a commission of inquiry into what went wrong on Oct. 7 is "06:29," the important new book by Amos Harel. My review for @JRBooks:
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An English translation of Amos Harel's *6:29* cannot come soon enough for me; until one is published (by Odessa Editions), @MattiFriedman's review for the new issue of @JRBooks will have to suffice. jewishreviewofbooks.com/cont…
ALT screenshot of the headline of Friedman's review.
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Michael Walzer, editor emeritus of Dissent, remembers his first UJA banquet in 1948 and what it taught him about giving: "Charity had to be governed by the demands of justice."
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"Both Moser and Crabapple relentlessly distort, cherry-pick, misquote, and misrepresent their sources to stage a predictable puppet show." Read Allan Arkush's erudite review of "Here Where We Live Is Our Country" and "Anti-Zionism" here: jewishreviewofbooks.com/jewi…
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A great review of two despicable and negligently researched and written books
"Both Moser and Crabapple relentlessly distort, cherry-pick, misquote, and misrepresent their sources to stage a predictable puppet show." Read Allan Arkush's erudite review of "Here Where We Live Is Our Country" and "Anti-Zionism" here: jewishreviewofbooks.com/jewi…
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Timshel or timshol? The Most Important Word in the World jewishreviewofbooks.com/lite… via @JRBooks
