Benjamin Ivry is a frequent Forward contributor.
Benjamin Ivry
By Benjamin Ivry
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Culture How Judaism mattered to Sigmund Freud — and why Freud mattered to Jews
Naomi Seidman writes about the relationship between Freud and the Yiddish and Hebrew translations of his work
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Culture How Jewish literature and activism shaped the work of Paul Auster
The Brooklyn-based novelist had a 'deep solidarity with his Jewish past.'
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Culture How a Jewish son of Prague became a 101-year-old historian of human ideals
Intellectual historian Peter Demetz survived close calls during wartime to become a scholar of German literature
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Books This legendary Jewish humorist was ‘the most negative writer of his era’ — can he still speak to ours?
S.J. Perelman influenced countless comics including Mel Brooks and Woody Allen
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Culture Could a Jewish voice from a previous century be a prophet for our times?
Aaron David Gordon may have been well ahead of his time on both environmentalism and Arab-Jewish relations
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Culture Was the Leopold and Loeb case really the ‘Jewish crime of the century?’
100 years later, the frenzy surrounding the murder of Bobby Franks still raises uncomfortable questions about antisemitism
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Film & TV In the music of Bob Marley, a deep connection to Judaism
Marley, whose biopic debuts this week, long claimed Jewish ancestry
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Culture Can Jews still embrace Rembrandt — even if his love for the Jewish people is only a myth?
As a new volume attests, the Dutch painter's philosemitic reputation may have been greatly exaggerated
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