by jonahlubin | Jun 8, 2021 | Uncategorized
by jonahlubin | Jun 7, 2021 | Uncategorized
The Liberal Zionists1 Esther Broner, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, and Phyllis Chesler grew up in middle-class, Ashkenazi, Zionist families in the U.S. around the time of the Holocaust. By the 1970s, they were fully involved in the women’s movement. Broner (1927-2011) was a...
by jonahlubin | Jun 7, 2021 | Uncategorized
Gershom Scholem characterized Yiddish as an ungeheuere dämonische Zwichensphäre des Wortes (monstrous demonic intersphere of the word) and, although the phrase is clearly meant to be derogatory, as a student of Yiddish I cannot help but to concede that he identifies a...
by jonahlubin | Jun 7, 2021 | Uncategorized
Bogdan Wojdowski’s Bread for the Departed was the first novel to introduce spectral imagery of the Holocaust to Polish literature.1 Published in 1971, the novel, written from the perspective of a single survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto, paradoxically elaborates on the...
