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Essay We Don’t Get to Choose Our Material Earlier this week, author Paul Goldberg wrote about the popularity of King Lear in midcentury Moscow and Yiddish theater. With the release of his novel The Yid, Paul… Paul Goldberg February 16, 2016
Essay Lear’s Warning Paul Goldberg first heard a Moscow version of the myth about Jews using blood for religious rituals when he was ten, in 1969. By the time he emigrated to the US in… Paul Goldberg February 15, 2016
Essay The Women at the Kitchen Table Amy Gottlieb is the author of The Beautiful Possible, a novel spanning from 1930s Berlin to the United States in the midcentury to modern-day Jerusalem. Amy is… Amy Gottlieb February 15, 2016
Essay An Author’s First Book Is Always Their Second Attempt Earlier this week, Daniel Oppenheimer shared his thoroughly secular affiliation with Joseph and the personal inner turmoil reflected in his book Exit Right: The… Daniel Oppenheimer February 12, 2016
Essay My Own Master of My Own Dreams Earlier this week, Daniel Oppenheimer shared the personal inner turmoil reflected in his book Exit Right: The People Who Left the Left and Reshaped the American… Daniel Oppenheimer February 10, 2016
Essay The Submerged “I” Daniel Oppenheimer is the author of Exit Right: The People Who Left the Left and Reshaped the American Century. He will be blogging here all week as part of the Visiting… Daniel Oppenheimer February 8, 2016
