It’s only been available in the U.S. for a few days, but Hebrew University professor Bernard Avishai got a UK copy of the new Bernard Madoff book, The Believers: How America Fell for Bernard Madoff’s $65 billion Investment Scam, and reported in his (terrific) blog that author Adam LeBor dips into Jewish history to explain [...]
continue reading >>Salinger the Recluse cool in Real World world
The PBS Newshour had some professors on to talk about J.D. Salinger, and Salinger the Recluse emerged as something just as interesting — maybe more — than Salinger the writer. Robert Thompson of Syracuse nailed it (6:18 to 6:52):
“He didn’t like the idea of notoriety and fame and this makes him an unbelievably interesting character, [...]
Jewish Studies held in Seymour Krim disappearance
It seems that when Jewish Studies pulled up its truck at the American culture counter and started packing everything for a Jewish audit Seymour Krim got left on the sidewalk. And he was yelling.
continue reading >>What’s more Jewish: A blog by tech-meister Dave Winer or A Serious Man?
Is Dave Winer’s new blog about Web 2.0 more Jewish than the Coen brothers’ movie A Serious Man?
Yes, it is.
continue reading >>Stumbling Into Jews
I didn’t know A.J. Liebling was Jewish. Honest.
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