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On Literature today and on reading at night
By Arik Glasner  |  19/08/2010
Since the Renaissance, fine literature has become in the deepest sense the medium of the middle class, a class with a sense of self and self-respect, a class that values thrift and postponement of gratification, which has semi-secret passions that lead it to draw comfort and beauty from the life of the imagination. How...

Atheist Torah Scholar
By Laurent Cohen  |  19/08/2010
According to Haim Cohn, the conflict between conservative, halakhic Judaism, and subjective, "free Judaism," is not a classic conflict between the proponents of memory and those who would devoutly forget, between the faithful and the assimilated, between saints and hedonists, between the pious and the Helleni...

Kingdoms of Jews
By Amos Goren  |  19/08/2010
Jacob Glatstein travelled from New York to his hometown of Lublin in 1934 and wrote two autobiographical novels in wake of that visit: “When Yash Went Forth” and “When Yash Arrived.” Many years later, literary critic Dan Miron translated the two books. The combined efforts of the New York poet and Israeli scholar, who ...

To alienate the Jewish state – blog
By Agata Peleszuk  |  19/08/2010
A recent Irish cultural boycott of Israel was supported by more than 150 artists. The initiative is one of the actions aimed to culturally alienate the Jewish state and influence the Israeli government to change its policy towards Palestinians. The latest boycott from Ireland and many others point out the power of arti...

Letter from London – The blandishments of pro-Israel far-rightists
By Antony Lerman  |  19/08/2010
‘Reformed’ far-right parties in Europe professing admiration for Israel and seeking rapprochement with Jews are nothing new. We have seen this phenomenon in Italy, when Gianfranco Fini’s former neo-fascist party became the National Alliance, in Denmark, when the Danish People’s Party made overtures to Jews based on sup...

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