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The New Hamans

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  Rokhl Kafrissen Tablet, Feb. 28, 2023   “It’s hard to imagine what it would have been like, not only to have been a child watching the Holocaust unfold from afar, but immediately thereafter, watching the perilous fight for a Jewish state, surrounded, as this text makes clear, by yet more enemies, more Hamans, intent […]

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The Tikkun in Sutzkever’s Work: Elie Wiesel, translated and introduced

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by Allan Nadler, Jewish Review of Books, Winter 2023 The Yiddish literary elite’s response to the announcement, in 1978, that Isaac Bashevis Singer was that year’s Nobel Laureate for Literature was a quintessentially Yiddish one: kvetching drowned out celebration. Singer was viewed by a great many old-school Yiddishists as a sellout who published his books […]

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