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Category Archives: Jews
Michael P. Kramer: ‘Critical Narcissism and the Coming-of-Age of Jewish American Literary Studies’ (2004)
Janet Burstein wrote in the Forward Sep. 26, 2003: Critical preoccupation with “the notion of Israel as a sacred homeland to which Jews in diaspora are longing to return” runs like a subtext through several essays by American-born critics who … Continue reading
David Hollinger: ‘Rich, Powerful, and Smart: Jewish Overrepresentation Should Be Explained Instead of Avoided or Mystified’ (2004)
Hollinger writes as if breaking a taboo. He frames the essay as a brave departure from a field that looks away. The opening does the work: a distinguished historian privately suspects the answer is genetic. The reader feels the chill. … Continue reading
The Success They Mourn: How the Death of American Jewish Literature Became a Career
The mournful-American-Jewish-literature genre is not criticism. It is a terminal signaling equilibrium, a compressed competition over the meaning of a dying literary tradition, conducted under legacy pressure, before an audience that rewards emotionally calibrated elegiac clarity, through institutional channels that … Continue reading
The Chair Of The Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Caine, Thought The 2026 Iran War Was A Terrible Idea
Here is what grabbed my attention from today’s blockbuster in the New York Times: The C.I.A. director used one word to describe the Israeli prime minister’s regime change scenarios: “farcical.” At that point, Mr. Rubio cut in. “In other words, … Continue reading
The Jewish History Of The Consensus Interpretation Of American History
The first Jews who rose to prominence within History departments did not venture into Jewish history. They never attempted to define a Jewish perspective but they did develop the consensus interpretation of American history that put a premium on values. … Continue reading
The Custodianship Question (4-5-26)
01:00 The Custodianship Question, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=17958604:00 Great Rabbinic Thinkers: Rabbi Shimon Shkop (Part 1), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mJyLomfxAU1:20:10 Renewing the Old, Sanctifying the New (Part 11) || Dr. Marc Shapiro, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uha29bVRGMM1:22:00 Renewing the Old, Sanctifying the New: The Unique Vision of Rav Kook by … Continue reading
Jews & The Guardianship Question In Canada, Latin America, Africa
Custodianship Question in America Australia, New Zealand Europe Alliance Theory Asia Canada’s relationship between literary culture, academic institutions, and Jewish intellectual participation was shaped by configurations that differ from the American case even though the two countries share a language, … Continue reading
The Custodianship Question
Part Two The Custodianship Question In Canada, Latin America, Africa Australia, New Zealand Europe Asia Alliance Theory Selig Perlman (1888-1959), a professor of Economics at Wisconsin, reportedly warned his Jewish graduate students, that “History belongs to the Anglo-Saxons. You belong … Continue reading
I’m like the guy who reads Playboy for the articles
Even though I do not share the worldview of the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Apple News Plus, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times, I subscribe for the articles. I don’t pay for the comfort of … Continue reading
What the Summons Now Costs: Bondi Orthodoxy After December 14
The jurisdictional competition inside Bondi’s Orthodox community was usually about friendly collegial calibration between nice people. How strict. How visible. How much to yield to the rhythms of a secular Australian city without losing the density that makes the system … Continue reading