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As Hitler Loomed, Hannah Arendt Undertook a Deep Analysis of German Antisemitism
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (249+ words) The chronology is significant here. Up to the time of the Nuremberg Laws of 1935, quite a few observers of the developments in Germany were undecided as to whether the National dictatorship would last. Not Arendt. Arendt had no doubt that…...
Literary Hub » On the Complexities and Contradictions of Diasporic Jewish Identity
2+ week, 5+ day ago (191+ words) You are thinking of the modern hybrids that now monopolize England. Hypocrites, humbugs, Germans, Jews, Yankees, foreigners, Park Laners, cosmopolitan riffraff. Don’t call them English. They don’t belong to the dear old island, but to their confounded new empire; and…...
Literary Hub » Molly Crabapple on the Jewish Bund
2+ week, 6+ day ago (258+ words) Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund • Brothers of the Gun A Memoir of the Syrian War by Marwan Hisham and Molly Crabapple • Drawing Blood • My Great-Grandfather the Bundist | The New York Review of…...
A Dialogue With the Facts: On Writing Literary Biography in a Post-Truth Age
3+ week, 2+ day ago (927+ words) Literary Hub A Dialogue With the Facts: On Writing Literary Biography in a Post-Truth Age Fiona Sampson Explores the Ways We Can Blend Reality With Fictionalization Where does the “literariness” in literary biography belong? With the book’s subject—or its…...
Christian B. Miller on The Honesty Crisis
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (236+ words) The Honesty Crisis: Preserving Our Most Treasured Virtue in an Increasingly Dishonest World • The Character Gap How The Washington Post Fact Checker Tracked Trump • The Rabbit Series • John Updike’s Rabbit Tetralogy EXCERPT FROM A CONVERSATION WITH CHRISTIAN MILLER Whitney Terrell:…...
An Open Letter to the Jewish Book Council From a Concerned Group of Jewish Writers
4+ mon, 3+ day ago (300+ words) We are Jewish authors who believe in Jewish books, and for whom Palestinian liberation is a moral imperative. While we are eager for our work to find Jewish audiences, we have not been inclined to participate in the JBC’s’s initiatives…...
The Double-Sided Sword of Deception: How Lying Can Help—and Hurt—Us
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (490+ words) Our decisions to conceal aren’t purely gut reactions. They’re the product of powerful cultural conditioning. As comic and absurd as it is, this classic scene from Changing Places reminds us of the real risks of revealing—and why English professors…...
Lily Meyer on Philip Roth, Anti-Zionism, and Her Relationship to American Judaism
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (308+ words) When I read that description, my scalp prickled. I am—I’m being honest here—a Roth worshipper. No author has influenced me more. I’m always searching for, or aspiring to, reasons to compare myself to him, and here was a…...