What Was That Really About? Antisemitism or Something New?
In our Winter 2024 Issue, Editor Abraham Socher, Jonathan Karp, and Reviel Netz debated the cause behind the surge of anti-Israel protests spreading across the US and the world. Are these just altered displays of antisemitism or something new? Read the continuing discussion, with new entries in the debate:
- Jonathan Karp asks a Marvin Gaye type of question: What’s Going On with Antisemitism?
- Reviel Netz continues to see something distinct from classic antisemitism.
Suggested Reading
Jewish Pugs
A successful Jewish jock, demonstrating strength and physical courage, nicely rounds out Jews’ sense of completeness as human beings.
Storytelling, or: Yiddish in America
The basic recipe of Isaac Bashevis Singer’s later novels called for a guy with two wives or lovers who ping-pongs between them for a couple of hundred pages and then runs away. And yet this new collection of Singer’s essays, reminds us that he was not only a great storyteller, but a great champion of the importance of stories for art and for life.
Books on the Cheap
After the bookseller had read something from a random page, he suddenly exclaimed, almost in panic and in as broad a Texan accent as I had ever heard, “Wait a minute. I know what this is. I’m not going to sell this! Get this out of my store. Take it. Get this out of my store!”
Tattooing God’s Name, a Jewish Adventure Out West, and Ultra-Orthodox Voting Patterns
A round-up of three new and notable articles in Jewish studies.
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