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People Love Dead Jews
Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating essays since she was a teenager. Often asked by major publications to write on …
Arguing the Modern Jewish Canon
Over the past four decades Ruth R. Wisse has been a leading scholar of Yiddish and Jewish literary studies in North America, and one of our most fearless public intellectuals on …
The World to Come
Having stolen a million-dollar Marc Chagall masterpiece, thirty-year-old quiz-show writer Benjamin Ziskind and his twin sister work to evade the police and evaluate the …
A Guide for the Perplexed
Software prodigy Josie Ashkenazi has invented an application that records everything its users do. When she visits the Library of Alexandria as a tech consultant, she is abducted …
In the Image
Losing a friend in high school, Leora continues on to college, her career, and falling in love, while her lost friend's grandfather, Bill, remembers his experiences in Amsterdam …
The World to Come
I believe that when people die, they go to the same place as all the people who haven’t yet been born. That’s why it’s called the world to come, because that’s where they make the …
De wereld die op je wacht
Het is 1920. De Joodse schilder Marc Chagall komt in contact met de Jiddische schrijver Der Nister. Samen geven ze les op een school voor Joodse wezen, waar ze een bijzonder …
The Pawnbroker
For most of us, remembering the Holocaust requires effort; we listen to stories, watch films, read histories. But the people who came to be called "survivors" could not avoid their …
People Love Dead Jews
Reflecting on subjects as far-flung as the international veneration of Anne Frank, the blockbuster travelling exhibition called "e;Auschwitz"e;, the Jewish history of the …
Eternal Life
Rachel’s current troubles are only the latest in a litany spanning dozens of countries, scores of marriages, hundreds of children and 2,000 years. Only one person shares her …
God's Grace
God's Grace (1982), Bernard Malamud's last novel, is a modern-day dystopian fantasy, set in a time after a thermonuclear war prompts a second flood -- a radical departure from …