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Novelists destroying Israel, a critic unicycling his way through life, Saul Bellow's stroll through Jerusalem, and a soccer hooligan with a Yiddishe kop. Where else could you find all of this but the latest issue of the Jewish Review of Books? jewishreviewofbooks.com/issue/winter-2…

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"If Israel were a brutish nation, as its enemies allege, it would be less remarkable, not more. The world has plenty of those, and they don’t detain us long. "But in circumstances that engender brutes, Israel has strained to remain a thinking, building nation. It takes Saul

"If Israel were a brutish nation, as its enemies allege, it would be less remarkable, not more. The world has plenty of those, and they don’t detain us long.

"But in circumstances that engender brutes, Israel has strained to remain a thinking, building nation. It takes Saul
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The Jewish muscle-memory that shapes our collective intuition, guides our response to calamity. jewishreviewofbooks.com/contemporary-i…

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Why has TikTok become a hotbed of anti-Israel and antisemitic content, and what does it tell us about brewing global conflicts. jewishreviewofbooks.com/foreign-policy…

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Theodor Adorno said there could be no poetry after Auschwitz, but he didn’t say anything about buddy movies. jewishreviewofbooks.com/holocaust/1793…

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The first time Alfred Nakache died, it was in the gas chambers of Auschwitz. The second time, it was in the water, where he was most at home. jewishreviewofbooks.com/jewish-history…

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American Jewish novelists have been writing about Israel for decades, but the surprising impulse to destroy it is relatively new. Read the review of Next Stop by Akiva Schick. jewishreviewofbooks.com/jewish-life/17…

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"When a classmate told me to 'stop being Jewish with the ball,' I spat in his face." jewishreviewofbooks.com/jewish-life/17…

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Émile Zola’s J’accuse...! might be modern journalism’s most famous headline. But whose idea was it? jewishreviewofbooks.com/jewish-history…

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The Dreyfus Affair is one of the most studied events in the history of modern antisemitism, and yet at least one of its lessons still escapes us: why can't Jews speak about the prejudice they face? jewishreviewofbooks.com/jewish-history…

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A look at the first book by an Israeli officer in the Gaza war (Col. Asaf Hazani, an anthropologist in civilian life), and at how soldiers are navigating a murky moral battlefield and the longest conflict in our history. My latest, in the new Jewish Review of Books: jewishreviewofbooks.com/contemporary-i…

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Tomorrow marks the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. In 1948, the great Jewish writer Vasily Grossman wrote a testament to the memory of the Warsaw Ghetto—one that went unpublished for more than seventy years. jewishreviewofbooks.com/literature/179…

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Congratulations to Benjamin Nathans on winning the Pulitzer Prize for his book, "To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause." Read Marci Shore's insightful review about Soviet dissent. jewishreviewofbooks.com/jewish-history…

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In the talmudic era, many Jewish legal documents were standardized. Even magic bowls inscribed with methods to divorce a demon. jewishreviewofbooks.com/uncategorized/…