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nextbook: filter archive a novelist's prophesies of doom e.l. doctorow, booed for criticizing the iraq war, is "a stormbird, a sherlock, and an ancient mariner. but two of his aspects predominate. as much as he is citizen doctorow, he is also the prophet edgar" who sees "raven droppings, tiny golems, counterterrorists, cuneiform and hieroglyphs," writes john leonard. doctorow's latest collection, sweet land stories, is full of "american dreamers, certain of their ability to shuck off the past, pull up stakes and move on," says michiko kakutani. 05.28.04 | email | permalink actress in dispute over impressionist canvas elizabeth taylor is disputing claims made by descendants of a german refugee that van gogh's view of the asylum and chapel at saint-remy (1889), in taylor's los angeles home, was looted by the nazis. the actress says margarete mauthner sold the painting to pay passage to south africa. 05.28.04 | email | permalink roger w. straus, jr., publisher "many people have accused me of being an elitist," said straus, a scion of the macy's family who drew on his inheritance to enter the book trade. "i'm guilty. i am an elitist. i like good books." at farrar, straus, he championed malamud, singer, canetti, gordimer and, until he demanded a big advance, philip roth. when straus' mercedes convertible pull up in seedy union square, "everything came to a halt, in this strange deference to elegance," tom wolfe said. "they would never touch roger, he was too great an ornament." 05.28.04 | email | permalink jiri weiss, czech filmmaker born in prague's german-speaking community, weiss documented world war ii from exile in london, switched to features upon returning home, then left for the united states in 1968. his films include romeo, juliet and darkness and martha and i, which kevin thomas noted for its "assured, unfussy mastery of screen storytelling." 05.28.04 | email | permalink a skeptical view of the voice of a generation "the question of how to remember the holocaust falls naturally to the survivors' descendants, but unfortunately they have proved a better example of what not to do," ruth franklin writes of melvin bukiet, eva hoffman, and others in bukiet's anthology nothing makes you free. "call it neo-wilkomirski-ism: driven by ambition or envy or narcissism, a number of the children of survivors—commonly referred to as 'the second generation'—have constructed elaborate literary fictions that serve to elevate their own childhood traumas above and even beyond the sufferings of their parents." 05.25.04 | email | permalink little defiance, much compliance in a vichy town "i was born under the shadow of a genius, and that spared me from being vain. i don't have an inferiority complex—i am inferior," says marcel ophüls, who fled germany in 1933 and found his father max's liebelei playing at the champs-elysées. the son opted for documentaries; the sorrow and the pity, now in a london retrospective, "challenged postwar myths of france," says stuart jeffries, and raises questions about "courage, cowardice and human weakness," writes philip french.    whisky, a uruguayan film about brothers reunited at their mother's unveiling, and or, the hard luck story of a tel aviv prostitute and her teenage daughter, won awards at cannes. 05.25.04 | email | permalink is leadership gender gap causing friction? when a reform rabbi asked congregants to write about values they wanted to teach kids, one man "could be heard downstairs watching the nfl." women currently outnumber men in the movement's cantorial programs and summer camps, alienating some reform adherents. "there's been what some people call a feminization," says rabbi eve rudin; rabbi jacqueline koch ellenson argues "to see that as a threat to men is an extremely, extremely dangerous way of looking at it." 05.25.04 | email | permalink the lives of american matriarchs when anna marks, a polish immigrant traveling by buggy in the 1800s, reached a toll she didn't want to pay, "a verbal war was on, the air turning blue with anna's cuss words. she summoned her bodyguard and with guns drawn they tore down the toll gate and went on to eureka," a local historian noted. marks' story appears on the jewish women's archive, which is sponsoring lectures and films celebrating the 350th anniversary of jews in north america. 05.24.04 | email | permalink dairy delicacies for harvest holiday cheesecake dates to the 3rd century b.c.e. but became popular in the early 20th after joseph and isaac breghstein (now breakstone) mass-marketed cream cheese. new jewish cuisine host jeffrey nathan accidentally "added salt instead of sugar," then threw in smoked salmon for a shavuot appetizer.    the schmear doesn't stop here: alan batt's great bagel and lox book features innovations by chefs (croutons; fondue) who met the challenge to "take this new york icon" and "create something new." 05.24.04 | email | permalink melvin lasky, editor an alumnus of city college, lasky was "anxious to become a fashionable critic like edmund wilson," writes bronx schoolmate andrew roth, but at his first partisan review cocktail party, he "asked only for a glass of milk," lasky, still embarrassed, recalled in 2000. after world war ii, the anti-communist liberal stayed in europe to edit der monat and encounter, which published arthur koestler and isaiah berlin and was covertly funded by the cia. albert friedlander calls him "the paradigm of the new york jew; he would accept this as an encomium as long as it did not contain the dimension of religion." 05.24.04 | email | permalink no longer a kid and still in the picture the jewish chronicle photographed tracy chevalier among its community's rising stars even though "i'm not british, i'm not jewish, and i'm not that young," the author of girl with a pearl earring tells dina shiloh. she likes the london synagogue she attends with her husband and young son, but "i'm still thinking about it. right now i feel that a piece of paper is not going to make me feel more jewish. my husband has never put any pressure on me to convert, and at this point it doesn't feel like i've earned it: it's not natural for me." 05.21.04 | email | permalink the oeuvre of an outcast from livorno avoiding the cubism and futurism favored by contemporaries, amedeo modigliani, a descendent of spinoza, was "twice an outsider in france, as an italian and a jew. 'i am modigliani, jew,' was how he occasionally introduced himself, after encountering anti-semitism for the first time in post-dreyfus paris," writes michael kimmelman. a jewish museum retrospective offers a "startling mixture of spirituality and earthiness," says leslie camhi in the forward. 05.21.04 | email | permalink legal scrap over maestro's television perfomances leonard bernstein's 1950 appearances on omnibus "have a lot of historical significance," says his daughter, jamie. but a lawyer for wesleyan university, which inherited film of the show from its creator, says reproduction "would significantly diminish the value of the collection."    pola braun, a jewish cabaret singer, continued writing music after she was sent to majdanek. the premiere of letter from warsaw, thomas pasatieri's setting of braun's verses to music, was "somber but not solemn, an elegy," says r.m. campbell. 05.21.04 | email | permalink fêting the singer who brought fame to a blue raincoat longing in leonard cohen's songs is "almost religious," says the handsome family's rennie sparks, part of a tribute concert this weekend. the montreal-born singer's lyrics are "prayers to god, prayers to himself." cohen, who based his novel the favorite game on his childhood, started writing at age 9, after his father's death. "weeks after burying him, the young leonard took one of his father's bow ties and a scrap of paper with a few lines of verse on it. he wrapped the paper in the tie and buried it in the garden," says nick paton walsh. 05.20.04 | email | permalink a screenwriter's spiritual story arc "i think everything—except religion—should have three things," david weiss said at a jerusalem film school while describing his personal journey from his reform childhood to orthodoxy. "by the time he wrote the rugrats chanukah special, he had abandoned christianity for good," hannah brown reports. 05.20.04 | email | permalink fallout from wig worries includes occasional verse the fiery reactions to rabbinical warnings against human hairpieces from india have delighted secular headline writers from melbourne to mumbai. meanwhile, hamodia, the internet-shy orthodox daily, has devoted five pages to the fracas without any pictures of a woman's (covered) head. an anonymous poet writes on the letters page:    whether you're auburn or black,    even gray,    if your wig is from bombay,    oy vey! 05.20.04 | email | permalink reflections on identities forged in the east "i want to stop hearing my community being referred to as barbaric, primitive, uneducated, dirty, and violent or as different, unusual, mysterious, fascinating, or exotic," loolwa khazzoom, the daughter of an iraqi, writes in the flying camel. essays by women of north african and middle eastern descent, including ella shohat, "manage to get beyond the usual pc ranting to be both provocative and moving," says sara sherbill. sandee brawarsky calls it "a travelogue of exile and longing." 05.19.04 | email | permalink family specialties sustain generations "i'm probably the only jewish father upset his kid wanted to be a doctor," says mark federman, who runs russ and daughters. "i'm talking sturgeon in the house, he's thinking surgeon." his grandfather, joel russ, opened the lower east side shop after operating a pushcart. "he was typical of the eastern european immigrant who came over, had no education, self-taught, and had to make a buck."    born in poland, philip zaro ran a chain selling challah and bagels in grand central and penn station. he died last week. 05.19.04 | email | permalink tony randall, actor born leonard rosenberg in tulsa, randall was "the laurence olivier of light comic actors," tom shales writes. best known as television's felix unger, he came under fire in the 1980s for playing gay artist sidney shorr. "he's also jewish, but nothing's made of that—although i suspect that may be a factor in some of these attacks," randall said. 05.19.04 | email | permalink tracing alternative routes for spirituality seekers sent by the lubavitcher rebbe to woo hippies away from drugs and eastern religion, rabbi zalman schachter shalomi was changed by san francisco. in wrapped in a holy flame, he "makes jewish law subservient to the broader idea of spiritual development," says roger gottlieb, who contrasts his book with adin steinsaltz's "reverential in the extreme" opening the tanya.    neil tweedie speculates gywneth paltrow named her daughter apple since it's "a symbol of renewal," and the new york post calls kabbalah "the honda civic of belief systems." 05.18.04 | email | permalink israeli big men tackle smaller olympic events "i barely reached the final," says judoka arik ze'evi, who won a third european title in his weight class. "my mind was already on olympic preparations." in athens, where he'll be one of a team of five, "a medal is a possibility, but it won't be easy."     looking to winter 2006, moshe horowitz of jerusalem beats out arm-wrestlers and shotputters to claim the fourth and final seat on the national bobsled team. 05.18.04 | email | permalink directors project voice of authority assi dayan took the title part in the gospel according to god ("too small for topol," a producer quips), but realized it's "impossible to play god, so he decided to play himself." hannah brown thinks other films have "more creative and funnier visions of heaven and hell."    perhaps flattered by praise for ha'aretz in the dantean notre musique, uri klein writes that when jean-luc godard asserts "1948 turned the israeli into protagonists of feature cinema and the palestinians into the protagonists of documentary cinema, it does not matter if this statement has any real meaning." 05.18.04 | email | permalink a literary critic diagrams her soviet circle "you'll write memoirs after i'm dead," osip mandelstam told emma gerstein, "but you don't care about the living poet." in moscow memoirs, gerstein presented mandelstam's marriage "as a selfish folie à deux, in which outsiders were habitually compromised and sometimes destroyed," says rachel polonsky. gerstein's "love and flair for poetry is palpable," notes oliver ready; mandelstam, whom she was reluctant to defend after his first arrest, can come off as "hysterical and ostentatious." 05.17.04 | email | permalink a scholar riffs on the tone of interracial dialogue for norman mailer, "jazz was black and phallic, and, in typical self-hating fashion, jewishness was its animus," david yaffe writes. postwar ethnic writers famously sparred: "mailer vs. baldwin, baraka vs. the states of israel and new jersey. the musical exchanges, however—thelonious monk's adoption of irving berlin's 'blue skies' and george gershwin's 'i've got rhythm'; the call and response of artie shaw's clarinet and roy eldridge's trumpet—were true collaborations." 05.17.04 | email | permalink syd hoff, cartoonist and children's book author hoff, who broke into the new yorker at 18, drew "dumpling-shaped rounded characters, often patterned on people he encountered in the jewish neighborhood of new york where he had grown up," writes myrna oliver. best known for danny and the dinosaur and sammy the seal, he also illustrated jerome coopersmith's a chanukah fable for christmas. 05.17.04 | email | permalink the journey of london's huddled masses the jewish chronicle advised newcomers in 1880 that if they sought "to become members of our community, we have a right to demand that they will show signs of an earnest wish for a complete amalgamation with the aims and feelings of their hosts." in bloody foreigners, robert winder writes that "new arrivals jostled for work, money and advancement, and quickly built a ghetto with its own institutions and commerce" in the east end, where it "was even possible to see signs advertising rooms for rent with the unusual proviso: 'no christians need apply.'" 05.14.04 | email | permalink a celebration of al-andalus medieval spain "sent explorers far into the unknown—carrying astrolabes from jewish astrologers and compasses acquired from the chinese—and saw them return with maps of dragon-infested forests, expanses of africa and asia populated by camels and elephants, and cities and palaces of gold," says eve zibart. in washington, a festival focusing on the iberian golden age includes pere rosell's 12th-century map and a bible calligraphed two centuries before the inquisition, which started in seville, at the sackler gallery. 05.14.04 | email | permalink bassist takes cue from hillel playing is "a type of dream: if not now, then never," says bassist marc lazare of rockfour, who won't let age cramp their style. nationwide combines "psychedelic games of the 1960s-'70s, but also hard detroit grunge and extroverted brit-pop" with "underlying mediterranean riffs," says jonathan yavin.    making too early to be quiet, too late to sing, a film about yiddish poets in israel, "felt like a goodbye to something," says chava alberstein, their poems inspired the well and foreign letters. 05.14.04 | email | permalink an impious annotation of the almighty's attributes "god is the most perplexing and yet most compelling figure in human history, revealed by a myriad of diverse sources to be mighty, jealous, rude, babyish, deluded, omniscient, vicious, ratty, benign, merciful, duplicitous," says alexander waugh, who scoured the bible and the koran for god, a biography. waugh "veers from cheeky monkey to latent anti-theist," says salem alaton. david jays says the author uses "belligerent literal-mindedness" to construct a "dodgy psychological profile."     05.13.04 | email | permalink leveling the playing field in africa the son of refugees from lithuania, aron (ali) bacher was "intoxicated by cricket, capable of monumental misjudgments but possessed of a human heart," sue mott writes. bacher captained south africa's whites before they were kicked off the international circuit; in 1991, he became the first head of the country's integrated cricket board. nelson mandela penned a foreword to ali, which hemal ashar calls "biography, political comment and cricket manual, rolled into one."    a libyan chess tournament promises visas to jewish grandmasters, but many stay away. 05.13.04 | email | permalink european influences on a master from chicago joseph from saul bellow's dangling man possesses traits derived from rilke, sartre, gogol, and dostoevsky. but the victim is his "most dostoevskian book," asserts j.m. coetzee. bellow disparaged that effort ("i was still learning, establishing my credentials, proving that a young man from chicago had a right to claim the world's attention."), which coetzee says owes a debt to the eternal husband. "supports for our neat, well-ordered lives can crumble at any minute; inhuman demands can without warning be made of us, and from the strangest quarters; it will be only natural to resist (why me?); but if we want to be saved we have no choice, we must drop everything and follow." 05.13.04 | email | permalink negotiating between orthodoxy and sexuality "when i came out, i knew i would have to leave the rabbinate or make sense of it," says rabbi steven greenberg. "i wanted to remain in conversation with the traditional world." in wrestling with god and men, he examines medieval love poetry and the injuction in leviticus, which he understands to be about "violence and degradation. in the ancient world, people were divided sexually into penetrators and people who were penetrated," says jay michaelson. greenberg fails to answer why he "tries so hard to reconcile himself with a club that, for the most part, doesn't want him as a member," says steve weinstein. 05.12.04 | email | permalink avoiding kisses and telling all "don't marry a writer," counsels claire bloom. "i've woken up absolutely terrified" dreaming of ex philip roth, who based a character in i married a communist on the actress, now in whistling psyche. "a self-loathing, anti-semitic jewess, she fawns over shallow society figures," charlotte o'sullivan says of eve in communist, which bloom resisted. but in a store, her hand was "on a pile of books. and i looked down and, goddammit, it was human pain!...i thought, 'buy it! read it!'"    sir sean connery will star in josiah's canon, about a survivor turned thief out to reclaim money kept by the swiss. 05.12.04 | email | permalink samuel iwry, dead sea scrolls scholar descended from the ba'al shem tov, iwry fled europe in 1939 for the far east, where he worked for the jewish agency and was jailed by japanese forces. at johns hopkins, he wrote the first dissertation on the dead sea scrolls. his memoir, to wear the dust of war: from warsaw to shanghai to the promised land, is due out this summer. 05.12.04 | email | permalink portrait of an exile as a young man "i hadn't learned hebrew well enough yet to read a paper, but in the newsprint i saw a small faded passport photo of a young man looking at me. my hands froze. it was a picture of my father," explains the narrator of dancing arabs, pleased when later told "you don't look like an arab at all." sayed kashua "succeeds admirably in creating a protagonist adrift between two worlds, neither of which, tragically, can sustain him," says andrew furman. robert walch says the book "goes beyond the front-page headlines" to depict "curious and unsettling bouts of self-loathing." kashua is the subject of a documentary. 05.11.04 | email | permalink home is where the dewey decimal system is "when the small boy, waiting for his mother in the adult department, recognized the ex-soldier who had befriended him in a european concentration camp, there was a very affecting reunion," a lower east side librarian wrote in 1947. the restored seward park branch was a haven for "embryonic socialists intoxicated by volumes of marx crowded next to bearded men bent over yiddish versions of the last of the mohicans and young working women drinking in byron and poe," writes joseph berger.    san antonio's jewish press reported on european vacations—"and middle-class ones to corpus christi," says a librarian. 05.11.04 | email | permalink flaps over a lepidopterist's title characters vladimir nabokov told a friend he wrote pnin as a "brief sunny escape from [lolita's] intolerable spell," a novel whose plot echoes an obscure 1916 short story. the character of pnin was likely inspired by nabokov's colleague at cornell, marc szeftel, a refugee from russia. "it is certainly significant that szeftel was jewish, because it is pnin's association with his jewish sweetheart mira, and his anguish at her tragic fate that dignifies his character more than any other single trait," writes david lodge in introducing the reissued volume. 05.11.04 | email | permalink a voice preserved though self-translation "when i write in hebrew it sounds like hungarian," says david tarbay, who moved to israel as a teenager in 1991 and just published stalker, a five-part novel about an 8-year-old in eastern europe. a fan of david grossman's the book of intimate grammar, tarbay is leery of "the false mystification of childhood. childhood is not something kitschy and superficial."    grossman and amos elon win jewish quarterly prizes. 05.10.04 | email | permalink heir to prince, hendrix gets spiritual in barbecues and bar mitzvahs, lenny kravitz will play "someone in my particular position growing up between two cultures." kravitz, who releases baptism next week, insists material goods mean little to him, but nick duerden reports that his "cinema room is decked out in tactile satin and fur. but in place of the anticipated row of seats is a monumental double bed that suggests movie-watching in here is merely foreplay to the main attraction of, well, of sex with an international love god." 05.10.04 | email | permalink alan king, comedian "we didn't have an american writer until hemingway, and we really did not have a sense of humor until the jews came," king said in 1999, accepting an award now named for him. born irwin alan kniberg in new york, king became a protégé of milton berle and broke ground with a routine about his son's bar mitzvah portion on ed sullivan. jerry stiller compared him to will rogers; his memoirs include name dropping and is salami and eggs better than sex? 05.10.04 | email | permalink absences that made a heart grow fonder joyce johnson sought to resurrect her immigrant grandfather, a poet descended from rabbis who killed himself, "in artists who could not find acceptance, in the rage and sadness of these men that would make me fall in love with them and ultimately leave me alone again with my freedom." missing men—"big-hearted, commonsensical, thoroughly adult," says jonathan yardley—is a homage to her grandfather and late husbands that creates "the ideal environment for rumination: uncluttered, well lighted, a high remove offering the benefits of perspective," writes kathryn harrison. 05.07.04 | email | permalink the abc's of a modern, esoteric language revisted born in bialystok, ludwig zamenhof created a root word structure similar to hebrew and romance languages in inventing esperanto in 1878. he felt, says ciaran carson, that "no one can feel the need for a language free from a sense of nationality as strongly as the jew who is obliged to pray to god in a language long since dead, receives his education and upbringing in the language of a people who reject him, and has fellow-sufferers around the world with whom he cannot communicate." 05.07.04 | email | permalink manners and aristocracy in contemporary england the daughter of a jewish accountant, edith lavery is bent on marrying well. ""how else was she to enjoy the good things in life?" asks the narrator in julian fellowes's snobs. "for the novice climber," says catherine bennett, this "guide to the basics of social mountaineering should prove a godsend." in spite of trollopian overtones, "snobs has the air of a rearguard action" with "a reliance on the admittedly fascinating if fetishised rites of an exclusive class," says philip hoare. zoe williams calls it "finely tuned" though too redolent of fellowes's gosford park. 05.07.04 | email | permalink piping up for an unsung older sister esther kreitman "was ahead of her time: an all-boy's club reigned over yiddish literature since its inception in the eighteenth century," ilan stavans writes upon the reissue of deborah, an autobiographical novel that passes through the warsaw neighborhood made famous by her brother, isaac bashevis singer. "her books were regarded as freakish when they were regarded at all." the inspiration for singer's yentl, kreitman later translated dickens's a christmas carol. her short fiction has also been rendered in english. 05.06.04 | email | permalink psychiatrists peer into orthodox bedrooms despite adherence to purity laws forbidding them from having sex up to two weeks a month, "observant jewish women have an even greater frequency of sexual contact compared to married women in the u.s.," says rachel yehuda, who conducted the study; it also found that orthodox women experience less emotional and physical satisfaction.    citing the biblical command to procreate, robyn singer says, "if you want to be a mom, not being married is a stupid reason not to be."    and the troubled life of hiv-positive porn actress lara roxx. 05.06.04 | email | permalink humorists unwilling to tiptoe around tragic taboo "i was at anne frank's house. she wasn't in," quipped adi ashkenazi, one of a number of israeli comics and writers (including etgar keret) who satirize the holocaust. scriptwriter reshef levy tells ha'aretz that censors, who have banned some of the jokes, are fearful lest "the holocaust becomes close, an everyday affair."     a rutgers student cartoon that makes light "of the signature atrocity of modern times" is "the behavior of stunted children," leonard pitts jr. writes. 05.06.04 | email | permalink a responsive reading of ancient verse traditionally ascribed to king david, the psalms "have been a tremendous sourcebook for western poets," says edward hirsch. brooks haxton's uproar: antiphonies to psalms is full of "fresh responses, of quirky commentaries" that start off with biblical verses. he writes in "gloss":    one collector of the psalms    in hebrew says the wise king    sings this psalm about himself;    translators into the greek say,    no, the father prophesies    the greatness of his son. 05.05.04 | email | permalink denver mothers try shaking their tail feathers "show me my groove again," one woman asks charles white, a hip-hop choreographer and sometime bar mitzvah emcee recruited to teach dance classes to perplexed parents at the theodor herzl lower school. "everyone wants to be the cool mom," says another pupil; her son counters, "actually, i feel pretty stupid for you." 05.05.04 | email | permalink strolling the strasses in old jerusalem "from terrace to terrace, architects speak, and doctor dwells opposite doctor," poet natan alterman wrote disdainfully in 1936 of rehavia, jerusalem's german immigrant neighborhood where "mimicry thrives and snobbism blossoms." developed by architects including richard kaufmann, the "little berlin" area was home to salman schocken. residents "never missed the morning and afternoon kaffeestunde" (coffee hour) and lived on a "prussian island in an oriental sea," says david kroyanker. 05.05.04 | email | permalink one nation, under god, divisible into congregations in american judaism, jonathan sarna traces the development of different communities since the establishment of shearith israel 350 years ago. with "elegance and panache," he shows they "are a response to the challenge of constructing a coherent religious system in a free society," says jacob neusner. sarna treats judaism "almost exclusively as the creature of synagogues, seminaries, and civic organizations," says adam kirsch, who regrets that "sarna does not engage with the broader subject of american jewish culture, or with the deeper one of american jewish spirituality and theology." 05.04.04 | email | permalink documentarian zooms in on legend of blood libel when director albert maysles was a boy, a relative told him about mendel beilis, accused in 1911 of murdering a ukrainian child. "i identify very strongly with beilis—an ordinary person, like my parents were ordinary people—caught in this web of antisemitism." maysles, now at work on the jew on trial, says he is adjusting the direct cinema technique he used in gimme shelter and grey gardens to show the "ongoing perpetuation of a myth." 05.04.04 | email | permalink harold harmatz, dairy restaurateur though his father lost a 1905 coin toss for naming rights to brother-in-law alex ratner, harmatz held onto the lower east side eatery known for its knishes, vegetable cutlets, and a clientele of yiddish actors and gangsters until 2002, when ratner's closed to make way for the lansky lounge. "my father much preferred an insulting waiter with a sense of humor over a polished waiter," his son robert recalled. 05.04.04 | email | permalink an assemblage of insights into israel's early art scene along with the new horizon artists, critic eugen kolb "rejected as absurd the desire to chase after pagan canaanite roots or even ancient jewish sources," says dalia manor. using "ancient forms, without a social and psychological context, without a parallel in the contents," he observed "leads to the valorization of forms alone, and there is no sign of special 'israeliness.'" eugen kolb—buildings culture in eretz yisrael includes interviews with robert capa and georges braque, and essays from before kolb became director of the tel aviv museum in 1952. 05.03.04 | email | permalink director returns to probe drama of assimilation revisiting themes he explored in nobody dies on fridays and shlemiel the first, robert brustein was spurred on to write about identity after reading alan dershowitz's the vanishing american jew. in spring forward, fall back, which has a staged reading at the american repertory theater tonight, brustein tells the multigenerational story of fathers and sons. 05.03.04 | email | permalink hyam maccoby, scholar of early christianity educated at oxford, maccoby wrote critiques of t.s. eliot and franco zeffirelli but was best known for works like revolution in judea, in which he wrote that jesus "tried to bring about the kingdom of god on earth, and he failed; but the meaning of his life is in the attempt, not in the failure. as a jew, he fought not against some metaphysical evil but against rome." in judaism on trial, maccoby imagined a 1263 discussion between rabbi moses ben nachman and pablo christiani about the messiah. 05.03.04 | email | permalink filter archives april 2007 march 2007 february 2007 january 2007 december 2006 november 2006 october 2006 september 2006 august 2006 july 2006 june 2006 may 2006 april 2006 march 2006 february 2006 january 2006 december 2005 november 2005 october 2005 september 2005 august 2005 july 2005 june 2005 may 2005 april 2005 march 2005 february 2005 january 2005 december 2004 november 2004 october 2004 september 2004 august 2004 july 2004 june 2004 may 2004 april 2004 march 2004 february 2004 january 2004 december 2003 november 2003 october 2003 september 2003 august 2003 july 2003 june 2003 may 2003 april 2003 march 2003 subscribe to nextbook email newsletter rss podcasts recent features the devil and der führer norman mailer brings out the evil in all of us all relative in training her lens on family, vardi kahana portrays alternative existences let us eat cake there's only one biblical birthday bash—pharoah's. if that's the model, how should the rest of us celebrate? wartime lens the woman behind robert capa comes into her own who's the terrorist? the leading palestinian hip-hop group finds an unlikely fan base book of the day david hartman a living covenant more than any other living jewish philosopher, david hartman has brought the tradition vibrantly face to face with the imperatives of pluralism and modernity. © 2004-2007, nextbook, inc.     contact us      about us      privacy policy/terms of use

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