Why does Europe, the late 20th century’s greatest success story, now look so chaotic?
Thirty years ago, a book hit, in the words of the New York Times, “with the approximate force and effect of ... electric shock-therapy.” How has it held up?
Fauda, which takes its name from the Arabic word for chaos, opens in an adrenaline rush of noise, confusion, and jagged camerawork.
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A Dashing Medievalist
Ernst Katorowicz had great courage and old-world personal charm—his Berkeley students were mesmerized by him.
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On Agnonizing in English
For the Hebrew reader, S. Y. Agnon is not merely canonical, he stands almost outside of time.
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The Wandering Reporter
Read 86 years after it was originally published, The Wandering Jew Has Arrived can be seen as a chilling and prophetic piece of historical reportage.
The Last Word
Time is, of course, picking memory’s pocket, pilfering public memories of the Shoah, even among the Germans, even among the Jews.
From Hashtag Holocaust by Amy Newman Smith | Summer 2017
"I Am Impossible": An Exchange Between Jacob Taubes and Arthur A. Cohen
In the summer of 1977, two old friends ran into each other in front of a Paris bookstore and found themselves arguing about Simone Weil, Judaism, and their lives.
