A new biography of Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm downplays his Jewishness and attempts to soften his radicalism.
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What would an English translation of the Hebrew Bible look like if we could take off the Christ-colored glasses?
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A new retrospective documents Julia Scher’s decades-long project of turning surveillance around.
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In a new book, legal scholar Noura Erakat argues that the Palestinian liberation struggle must think beyond statehood.
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A new documentary asks: Has Brazil’s democracy been merely a passing dream?
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Peter Kuper’s latest collection mines Kafka’s scenes of anxiety, authoritarianism, and the anomie of modern life.
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Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s debut novel reflects the irrelevance of Jewishness to the most pressing concerns in many American Jews’ lives.
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What can we learn from photographs of cross-dressing Nazi soldiers?
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