Click here to read the rest of the Paul Celan folio. Introduced and translated from the German by Carlie Hoffman(English follows the German, below) Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger, a younger cousin of Paul Celan, was a Jewish, German-language poet and translator who died in a Nazi labor camp in 1942, at the age of 18. She left behind […]
Continue ReadingClick here to read the rest of the Paul Celan folio. Introduced and translated from the German by Carlie Hoffman(English follows the German, below) For almost 75 years, Paul Celan’s “Todesfuge” (“Deathfugue”) has vexed and moved readers. Since my first encounter with the poem in a graduate seminar on the elegy, I’ve noticed how the […]
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This conversation appears in our Spring 2021 issue. Subscribe now to receive a copy in your mailbox. Click here to read the rest of the Paul Celan folio. When I first met the poet and translator Pierre Joris as a colleague at the University of California, San Diego, in the 1990s, he was already deep into his engagement with […]
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Bhad Bhabie and Lil Yachty invest $1 million in Jewish dating app Lox Club – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement
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(Jewish News of Greater Phoenix via JTA) — Tucked between a dance school and a ’60s retro lounge on a quiet street in Tucson, Arizona, sits a small Middle Eastern and African foods store. But the Al Basha Grocery isn’t just a place to get kosher meats and hard-to-find ingredients. “It provides an opportunity for […]
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Google reassigns diversity chief for writing in 2007 that Jews have an ‘insatiable appetite for war’ – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement
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Over the last several years, debates over antisemitism and Israel/Palestine have roiled the German-speaking world. In 2019, the director of Berlin’s Jewish Museum, Peter Schäfer, was forced to resign after the museum tweeted about a petition against the German government’s decision to designate the BDS movement as antisemitic. In the spring of 2020, Germany’s (non-Jewish) […]
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Nikki Fried, Florida’s Jewish agricultural commissioner, announces run for governor – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement
Continue ReadingThis review appears in our Spring 2021 issue. Subscribe now to receive a copy in your mailbox. Discussed in this essay: The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex: The History of a Multibillion-Dollar Institution, by Lila Corwin Berman. Princeton University Press, 2020. 280 pages. IN THE WINTER OF 2018, I found myself in a summer camp in the Santa Monica mountains, learning […]
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Police chief in Michigan apologizes for liking pro-Israel Facebook post – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement
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