Gabriel Sanders
By Gabriel Sanders
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News Scholar Pulls Book Revisiting Blood Libel
After unleashing a torrent of criticism both in his native Italy and around the globe, an Israeli professor has ordered his publisher to halt distribution of a new book that suggests a possible historical basis for the centuries-old charge that Jews murdered Christians and used their blood for ritual purposes. Ariel Toaff, a professor of…
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Culture You Don’t Have To Be Hungarian, But It Helps
One Must Also Be Hungarian By Adam Biro, translated by Catherine Tihanyi University of Chicago Press, 168 pages, $20. After the death of his 95-year-old father, Imre, and the birth of his first grandchild, Ulysse, Hungarian-born French writer Adam Biro decided to write a book about his family. He called it “Les Ancêtres d’Ulysse” (“Ulysses’s…
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Israel News Old Forward Hand Keeps Rolling Along
Don’t let anyone tell you that an internship at the Forward isn’t a springboard to the big time. Just ask Mordechai Shinefield: He’s in the running for a plum gig at Rolling Stone. As a companion to the MTV reality series “I’m From Rolling Stone,” on which six hungry writers are vying for a yearlong…
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Culture Free Speech at City College
In early October 2001, the City College of New York’s faculty union, alarmed by what it saw as a wave of jingoism unleashed by the 9/11 attacks, decided to stage a teach in. Titled “Threats of War, Challenges of Peace,” the session was seen in some quarters as unpatriotic, seditious even. The New York Post…
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Culture Encyclopaedia Judaica 2.0
When the philosopher Denis Diderot set out, in 1750, to compile the French Encyclopédie — a work whose goal, he later said, was to “assemble the knowledge scattered over the surface of the earth” — he boldly announced that the project’s 10 envisioned volumes would be in readers’ hands in just four years’ time. The…
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Israel News Welcome Back, Shteyngart
In the opening pages of his first novel, “The Russian Debutante’s Handbook,” Gary Shteyngart has his ne’er-do-well protagonist slaving away at the dreary headquarters of a New York immigrant aid society where the “yellow water-stained walls and dying hydrangeas” offer all the charm of “a sad Third World government office.” Shteyngart, whose second novel, “Absurdistan,”…
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News Journal Inks Tikkun Exiles
Just a few weeks after their departure from Michael Lerner’s Tikkun magazine, the bimonthly’s two former top editors have signed on to work for a relative newcomer in the field, the independent Jewish journal Zeek. The announcement came this week from Zeek editor in chief and co-founder Jay Michaelson, a regular contributor to the Forward….
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Culture Ladino Professor Keeps a Language — and Her Heritage — Alive
Among the hundreds of panels convened at the Association for Jewish Studies conference in San Diego last month was the impishly titled “Is Ladino Dead Yet?” The panelists came from wildly divergent backgrounds and scholarly orientations, but on the central question of whether or not the Sephardic language has expired, their answer was a unanimous…
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