Review
Review
The Revolution in Vitebsk
A review in comic form of the Jewish Museum’s exhibit “Chagall, Lissitzky, Malevich: The Russian Avant-Garde in Vitebsk, 1918-1922.”
Julia Alekseyeva October 24, 2018
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Skin in the Game
Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman puts stress on the dual threats of white supremacy: antisemitism and racism.
Zack Graham October 19, 2018
Review
A Palestinian Filmmaker Asks: What Do Fathers and Sons Owe Each Other?
In Annemarie Jacir’s Wajib, a family considers what it means to build a life.
Naomi Dann October 5, 2018
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By What Law
Israel triumphed in acquiring a large stash of Kafka’s manuscripts. But does Israel—or anyone—really get to to claim Kafka as their own?
Nathan Goldman September 25, 2018
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What Marx Got Wrong
A new biography of the philosopher misses the shortcomings of the Marxist tradition.
Mitchell Abidor September 20, 2018
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A Road Trip Through America in Decline
In Lake Success, Gary Shteyngart takes aim at white male mediocrity and America under Trump.
Sasha Senderovich September 6, 2018
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Dreams of Baking Bread
Poet Janlori Goldman’s new collection is one to be read and read again.
Jessica de Koninck August 6, 2018
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Boots Riley Is Telling Liberal America Not to Be Fooled
Sorry to Bother You is a powerful rejoinder to the capitalist monoculture of our time.
Brendan James August 1, 2018
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Sacha Baron Cohen and the Right’s Imaginary Israeli
The British comedian returns to form with his new show, Who is America?
Noah Kulwin July 16, 2018
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Your Curiosity Will Not Be Satisfied
Ambiguity and discomfort in Batsheva Dance Company’s “Naharin’s Virus.”
Maia Ipp July 12, 2018
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Pope Francis at the Day of Judgment
A new film by Wim Wenders captures the moral splendor of Pope Francis while ignoring the politics.
Andrew Lapin July 6, 2018
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‘Fauda’ and the Act of Israeli Ventriloquism
The new season of the hit Israeli show Fauda continues in its portrayal of brutish Israelis and cowardly Palestinians.
Mitchell Abidor June 27, 2018
Review
Not Another Holocaust Book
Sheila Heti’s Motherhood addresses a family’s post-Holocaust grief—without addressing the Shoah outright.
Helen Betya Rubinstein June 26, 2018
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What Went Wrong With Identity Politics?
In a new book, Asad Haider makes the case for coalition-building and a return to universalist radical movements.
Kaila Philo June 13, 2018
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War in the Language of Hope
Writing in Esperanto, Spomenka Štimec offers a harrowing account of war in luscious detail.
Shoshana Olidort June 11, 2018
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The American Jewish Army that Never Was
A new work chronicles the attempts by Zionist leaders to raise an American Jewish army to fight Hitler.
Dusty Sklar June 4, 2018
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There Will Be Blood: Chaim Soutine at the Jewish Museum
“His paintings reflect the route from Louvre to butcher shop to studio, a private map of an emigre who belonged to no national movement and who created his own style.”
Dan Grossman May 29, 2018
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Our Hilarious Overlords
What’s so funny about backstabbing, brutality and mass murder? Quite a lot.
Logan Bayroff May 23, 2018
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Indonesia’s Unmourned Communists
A new work addresses the long-neglected mass politicide of communists in Indonesia.
Mitchell Abidor May 23, 2018
Review
A Nation Like All Others: Gershom Scholem and the Paradox of Zionism
How one people’s “independence” became another’s catastrophe.
Samuel Earle May 9, 2018
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Revolutionary Love, Revolutionary Heartbreak
Houria Bouteldja’s Whites, Jews, and Us is a useful re-contextualization of antisemitism, but fails as an act of revolutionary love.
Naomi Dann April 26, 2018
Review
The Kremlin Ball
Ex-fascist diplomat Curzio Malaparte’s masterpiece blends the real, the improbable, and the impossible in Soviet Russia.
Mitchell Abidor April 24, 2018
Review
Revolutionary Bandits
A new history of the revolutionary criminals who rejected any possibility of revolution coming from the degraded masses—and turned their revolt into an individualistic one.
Mitchell Abidor April 17, 2018
