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The Goat
“This bleating was the twin / of my own sorrow. And I answered”
Umberto Saba October 18, 2019
Naming the Dead
Novelist Maaza Mengiste discusses the erasure of women’s war stories, photography as a weapon of subjugation, and her new book, The Shadow King.
Lauren Goldenberg October 17, 2019
Facing Reality
In The Lions’ Den, Susie Linfield studies eight Jewish leftists’ views on Israel but fails to confront her own liberal Zionist preconceptions.
Shaul Magid October 15, 2019
What Really Happened at Bard College?
A Forward editor alleges she was protested for being Jewish. Witnesses tell a different story.
Mairav Zonszein October 14, 2019
The Rise and Fall of the Fourth Reich
A new book by historian Gavriel D. Rosenfeld traces the persistent idea of a resurgent Nazi regime.
Noah Berlatsky October 10, 2019
The Exorcist
Collaborators Aaron Henne and Erith Jaffe-Berg discuss theatre dybbuk’s new performance about a Jewish descent into Hell.
Leora Blum October 8, 2019
Just Playing Along
What an antisemitic, Nazi-era board game has to teach us about the nature of complicity.
Eric Thurm October 7, 2019
An Antisemitic Judge, a White Supremacist System
A Jewish death row inmate in Texas confronts the same forces that kill and incarcerate Black and Brown people daily.
Rebecca Pierce and Isaac Brosilow October 4, 2019
