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If anything, this felt more like Paris in 2005—a place where there was no shortage of legal protections and official goodwill, but where one wouldn’t be crazy to occasionally hide a yarmulke under a baseball hat. Yet the thought of explaining this was exhausting too, and also beside the point.
Dara Horn • People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
Chava Rosenfarb’s The Tree of Life,
Dara Horn • People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
My favorite Hebrew novel of all time, A. B. Yehoshua’s 1989 masterpiece Mr. Mani, is a fantastically inventive story that moves backwards in time through six generations of a Jerusalem family while tracing the family’s recurring suicidal gene—until you get to the end, which is really the beginning, when the enduring mystery of the family’s self-des
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Barry Eisler • The Killer Collective
Even after the ringing stopped, the sound of the bell lingered in the indoor evening gloom like dust floating in the air.
Jay Rubin • The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel (Vintage International)
unless I live a life that is worthy of her reverence, I make it almost impossible for her to live a Jewish life.
Anita Diamant • Choosing a Jewish Life, Revised and Updated: A Handbook for People Converting to Judaism and for Their Family and Friends
The frightening reality beneath Diarna’s efforts is the same one that haunted me as a child. The disappearance of these communities is just an acute (and sometimes violent) version of what eventually happens to every community, everywhere. All of us will die; all of our memories will be lost.