The Integralists and Us
A Jewish colleague once asked Harvard Law Professor Adrian Vermeule, “In a fully Catholic polity, the sort you would like to bring about, what would happen to me, a Jew”? “Nothing bad,” Vermeule replied. OK, let’s see.
Dateline Zion
"Jewish law does not go forth from London, and so rabbinic authorities have long attempted to define a Jewish date line."
“I am an Object Loved by God”: Rereading Clarice Lispector
The great Brazilian novelist Clarice Lispector rarely acknowledged her own Jewishness but when the Jornal do Brasil fired her a few days after the Yom Kippur War broke out, something changed.
Akedat Hannah
Hannah's vow binds Samuel to an altar just as Abraham bound Isaac, but her sacrifice has a different origin and her story a different ending.
Indiana Jones and the Meme-ification of Nazis
What happens when pop culture becomes responsible for maintaining historical memory? Benjamin Weiner has a bad feeling about it.
Another Round with Norman Mailer
Norman Mailer had the gift of enlivening everything he touched. And he touched almost everything, from politics to Hollywood to Sports. But his Jewish novel stayed in the drawer.
As American as Augie March
Once again, Maya Arad marries the metafictional play of Nabokov with the moral warmth of Jane Austen.
At the Edge of What?
Was the golden age of Polish Jewry truly golden, or just the calm before the storm?
Come Here to Me, You Fortunate Citizen of the World
Zalmen Gradowski’s testimony makes the sadism of the Nazi enterprise painfully clear. That seems obvious, but it runs counter to most Holocaust education.
Early Modern Blasphemy and Postmodern Virtue
Was Jacob Frank a progressive trendsetter or a seductive cult leader?