Neither Left nor Right Will Condemn Kanye West’s Anti-Semitism So Long as He Appears to Be on Their Side
Support the right candidate, and rants about “the Jewish underground media mafia” will be forgiven.
October 19, 2022
How Chaim Grade Sought to Bring the Rabbis of Prewar Europe Back to Life
Rabbis had figured previously in Yiddish literature, but they were usually secondary characters.
Born in Vilna in 1910, in what was then the Russian empire, Chaim Grade eventually forsook the yeshivas where he spent most of his youth to pursue a career as a secular Yiddish poet. He turned to prose after World War II with My Quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner, a fictionalized version of a real-life debate between the author and a devout friend over the possibility of faith after the Shoah. Reviewing Ruth R. Wisse’s new translation of the book (first published in Mosaic), David Fishman explains what motivated this work, as well as Grade’s subsequent novels:
October 19, 2022
The Unnecessary Crisis in U.S.-Saudi Relations, and How to Fix It
Riyadh’s decision to raise the price of oil has little to do with the priorities of its American critics.
By Visiting Kazakhstan, Mahmoud Abbas Continues the Palestinian Tradition of Backing the Wrong Side
Hitler, Saddam, Putin.
How Chaim Grade Sought to Bring the Rabbis of Prewar Europe Back to Life
Rabbis had figured previously in Yiddish literature, but they were usually secondary characters.
The Marriage Contracts of the Jews of Corfu, and Their Unicorns
A glimpse at a Greek island’s 800 years of Jewish history.