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).
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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
