Gabriel Sanders
By Gabriel Sanders
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Culture Primo Levi’s Second Language
This month marks the 20th anniversary of Primo Levi’s death. To commemorate the occasion, W.W. Norton & Company is releasing “A Tranquil Star,” a selection of the author’s previously untranslated short stories. Though clearly a tribute, the book is also being touted as a kind of reintroduction to the Italian master: Not only was Levi…
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Israel News In Newsweek’s List of America’s Top Rabbis, Hier is Highest
Winning a few Oscars and hanging out with Governor Arnold might be enough to get you a place on the Forward 50, but good luck cracking the top five. Thankfully for Rabbi Marvin Hier, however, now there’s another game in town with a preference for Los Angeles-based rabbis. This week, Newsweek published its own Top…
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Culture Israeli Scholar Trains an Eye on the Emerald Isle
As a student at Tel Aviv University in the mid 1990s, Jerusalem native Guy Beiner became interested in what the French call l’histoire des mentalités, history that takes into account how a people perceived itself and its world. In particular, Beiner began to consider folklore and oral traditions — sources often ignored by historians —…
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Culture The Greatest Shoah on Earth
My Holocaust By Tova Reich HarperCollins, 336 pages, $24.95. Of all the hucksters, fakers, phonies and wannabes to have been spawned by the so-called “Shoah business,” few can hold a (yahrzeit) candle to Maurice Messer, the fumbling, stumbling, malapropism-spewing figure at the heart of Tova Reich’s deliciously wicked satirical novel “My Holocaust.” A wheeler-dealer, schnorrer,…
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Israel News New Perch For ‘Lobby’ Observer
After close to a year of authoring a blog hosted by the Web site of The New York Observer, journalist Philip Weiss has decided to pull up stakes and strike out on his own. The reasons, Weiss said, were part economic, part political. “I wanted money after a year, and the Observer didn’t want to…
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Culture Anne Frank on the Reservation
The recent discovery of a trove of letters from Otto Frank to American officials may have returned attention to the wartime plight of the Frank family, but, as an exhibition set to open in the American Southwest next month shows, Anne Frank has never really strayed far from the collective imagination — and not only…
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News Mamaloshn: Why the Gay Connection?
On a chilly Monday evening in January, Yugntruf, a New York-based not-for-profit designed to promote Yiddish, assembled a panel to address the question “What Attracts Us to Yiddish?” Mostly in Yiddish, but with occasional forays into English for the benefit of the uninitiated, the evening’s seven panelists gamely tackled the question with a range of…
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Culture A Stitch in Time
Broken Threads: The Destruction of the Jewish Fashion Industry in Germany and Austria Edited by Roberta S. Kremer Berg, 136 pages, 29.95. No one can accuse Magda Goebbels of having been impervious to the damage wrought on Kristallnacht. “What a nuisance,” Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels’s wife said upon hearing that a clothier she favored,…
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