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Letters, Winter 2024 Reconstructing the BibleI’d like to take issue with Ethan Schwartz’s recent essay “You Say You Want a Revelation” reviewing Edward Feld’sThe Book of Revolutions.Feld did not wing…
via jewishreviewofbooks.com Jarrod Tanny Responds: As a scholar who writes about Jewish humor, I agree that Tamer Nafar’s “I Fell in Love with a Jew” is satire. But humor is as much about context as content. Had Nafar performed this song at a comedy festival in Haifa or Tel Aviv...
After 12 years under the umbrella of the Tikvah Fund, the Jewish Review of Books (JRB) has spun off into an independent publication with its own eponymous foundation. The publication’s editor, Abe Socher, said the Jewish Review of Books Foundation will make sure...
At the beginning of 2020, the world’s Jewish population was estimated at 14,787,200—an increase of 92,400 (0.63%) over the 2019 revised estimate of 14,694,800. The world’s total population increased by 0.92% in 2019. The rate of increase of world...
Aside from several books published in Yiddish and in English translation, Ajzenbud was an active member of the Yiddish speaking community: President and Honorary Secretary of the Kadimah; first Hon Sec of the Jewish Holocaust Centre. He edited the Kadimah’s Melburner Bletter Yiddish journal, ...
Aside from several books published in Yiddish and in English translation, Ajzenbud was an active member of the Yiddish speaking community: President and Honorary Secretary of the Kadimah; first Hon Sec of the Jewish Holocaust Centre. He edited the Kadimah’s Melburner Bletter Yiddish journal, ...
Here’s a retrospective movie review I wrote for the controversial 2001 film The Believer. If you’re unfamiliar with The Believer, it’s about a young Jewish man who becomes a neo-Nazi skinhead. It was loosely based on a true story. https://www.movieforums.com/reviews/2523...iever...
doi:10.1080/03612759.2013.787900Jeffrey HausKalamazoo CollegeHistory: Reviews of New Books
Marginally NabokovThank you for Allegra Goodman’s excellent review of Maya Arad’s newly translated collection of novellas,The Hebrew Teacher(“Od Tireh, Od Tireh . . .,” Spring 2024). I… Features Swimming through History Sarah Abrevaya Stein ...