Authors / Nicholas Jahr
Nicholas Jahr is a freelance writer based in Brooklyn and a member of Jewish Currents’ editorial board. In the past he has written for the magazine about comics, film, the diaspora, Israeli elections, and Palestinian nonviolence. His work has appeared in the International New York Times, The Nation, City & State, and the Village Voice (RIP).

Review
The Illustrated Kafka
Peter Kuper’s latest collection mines Kafka’s scenes of anxiety, authoritarianism, and the anomie of modern life.
Nicholas Jahr
June 28, 2019
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Footnotes on Footnotes
Nicholas Jahr
September 1, 2015
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Ashes to Ashes
Nicholas Jahr
August 27, 2015
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The Iran Index
Nicholas Jahr
August 22, 2015
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Irrational Man
Nicholas Jahr
August 6, 2015
Articles
In Defense of the Diaspora
Nicholas Jahr
June 3, 2015
Jewdayo Grid
An Interview with Tamar Zinn
Nicholas Jahr
May 8, 2015
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Bibi’s Victory
Nicholas Jahr
March 19, 2015
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Clearing the Threshold
Nicholas Jahr
March 15, 2015
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Zuckerman Bound
Nicholas Jahr
March 13, 2015
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World War 3 Revisited
Nicholas Jahr
November 16, 2014
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Return of the Refuseniks
Nicholas Jahr
August 1, 2014
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Some Thoughts on “Noah”
Nicholas Jahr
April 4, 2014
Articles
The Secret History of Palestinian Nonviolence
Nicholas Jahr
October 5, 2013
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Some Thoughts on Roman Vishniac
Nicholas Jahr
May 1, 2013
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And the land we belong to is grand!
Nicholas Jahr
April 18, 2013
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Sight & Fog
Nicholas Jahr
October 26, 2012
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Ravitch versus the ‘Reformers’
Nicholas Jahr
June 30, 2012
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Every time they get out, we pull them back in
Nicholas Jahr
May 9, 2012
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Mishpokhe: Marie Parham Walks the Walk
Nicholas Jahr
September 7, 2011
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Boycotting Captain America
Nicholas Jahr
August 12, 2011
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Elliott Abrams on ‘the Settlement Obsession’
Nicholas Jahr
August 11, 2011
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Captain America vs. Hitler
Nicholas Jahr
August 2, 2011
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New work from Sarah Glidden
Nicholas Jahr
May 4, 2011
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Where is the Israeli Left?
Nicholas Jahr
April 15, 2011
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Let’s Hit the Attic
Nicholas Jahr
February 17, 2011
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Sarah Palin, Anti-Semitism, and the Right
Nicholas Jahr
January 28, 2011
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A Film Unfinished
Nicholas Jahr
September 10, 2010
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Shalom Bayit
Nicholas Jahr
June 3, 2010
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‘Ask Malcolm.’
Nicholas Jahr
May 19, 2010
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Arendt, Hilberg, & the Warsaw Ghetto
Nicholas Jahr
April 19, 2010
Articles
The Shattered Faith of Isaac Babel
Nicholas Jahr
January 1, 2007