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Category Archives: Jews
The Hero System of Literary Critic Robert Alter
Robert Alter (b. 1935) gives part of a working morning to the word “and.” In the Hebrew of Genesis the verses run on the conjunction vav. And the earth welter and waste. And darkness over the deep. And God said. … Continue reading
Benjamin Schreier: Literary Critic of Jewish Identity and Ethnic Studies
Benjamin Schreier (b. 1972) holds the Mitrani Family Professorship of Jewish Studies and a professorship in English and Jewish Studies at Penn State University, where he has directed the Jewish Studies Program and the graduate program in English. Since 2011 … Continue reading
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The Impossible Jew: Identity and the Reconstruction of Jewish American Literary History
In his 2018 book, The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities, John J. Mearsheimer wrote: My view is that we are profoundly social beings from the start to the finish of our lives and that individualism is of secondary … Continue reading
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Four Cities, Four Jewish Imprints: How Jewish Demography Shapes California’s Legal Capitals
Jewish populations and Jewish communal character shape the elite cultures of Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, and Sacramento in different ways and to different degrees. Population size matters. So does the historical origin of each community. So does the … Continue reading
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‘How Jewish Is American Comedy?’
Steve Sailer writes: I’d say that with Wilder, Allen, and the Coens, Jewish comic film writers tended to have the longest runs near the top. This is not to say that they were necessarily the most brilliant at one point … Continue reading
The Definitive Book on Jewish Affinity Networks in America With Balanced Descriptions of Successes and Failures and Comparisons with other Affinity Networks
An honest treatment of Jewish affinity networks has to set out the success before the failure registers in its proper proportion. The networks have made American Jewish communal life the most successful immigrant integration stories in modern history. The fraud … Continue reading
Taffy Brodesser-Akner: Jewish Money, Jewish Memory, and Jewish America
Taffy Brodesser-Akner (b. 1975) was born Stephanie Akner in New York City and raised in an Orthodox Jewish home in Brooklyn. Her father taught computer science at NYU; her mother graduated from what is now the Stern School of Business. … Continue reading
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The Custodianship Question in Asia
Custodianship Question in America The Custodianship Question In Canada, Latin America, Africa Australia, New Zealand Europe Alliance Theory & The Custodianship Question Alliance Theory The literary and intellectual traditions of China, Japan, and Korea are not organized around any of … Continue reading
Jewish Diaspora Politics
Hungary before World War I is the textbook example of Jews siding with the majority in politics. Hungarian Jews Magyarized aggressively in the late nineteenth century, learned Hungarian, took Hungarian names, and aligned with the Magyar nationalist project against the … Continue reading
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The Ashkenazi Century: On the Reach and Limits of Yuri Slezkine’s The Jewish Century
Yuri Slezkine published The Jewish Century in 2004 (and a new edition came out in 2019). The book argues that the modern age is a Jewish age. It frames the twentieth century as the moment when the world became urban, … Continue reading
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