Each week in Bookends, two writers take on pressing and
provocative questions about the world of books. This week, Adam Kirsch and Rivka Galchen on why Hannah Arendt’s “Eichmann in Jerusalem” remains contentious fifty years after it was first published.
via Fifty Years Later, Why Does ‘Eichmann in Jerusalem’ Remain Contentious? – NYTimes.com.
The House of Twenty Thousand Books is journalist Sasha Abramsky’s elegy to the vanished intellectual world of his grandparents, Chimen and Miriam, and their vast library of socialist literature and Jewish history. A rare book dealer and self-educated polymath who would go on to teach at Oxford and consult for Sotheby’s, Chimen Abramsky drew great…
Please be offended–be offended by the title, be offended by the behaviour of the characters, by the way the author plays with history, with the literary history of Russia and Yiddish culture, but be really offended by the way Stalin treated so many of the citizens of the Soviet Union. If you are the ending…
So the author Stefan Zweig and Charles Steinmetz, the hunchbacked dwarf mathematician, were walking through Vienna at the end of the 19th century. As they passed a synagogue Zweig said, “I used to be a Jew,” to which Steinmetz replied, “I used to be a hunchback.” Read artilce here in the wonderful new on-line literary journal…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimen_Abramsky NYRB Books Halban – UK Publisher Obituaries: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/mar/18/chimen-abramsky-obituary http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/books-obituaries/7737796/Professor-Chimen-Abramsky.html http://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/jan/01/sasha-abramsky-chimen-abramsky http://jewishcurrents.org/leftwing-bibliophile-extraordinary-chimen-abramsky-29738 Reviews of this Book http://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/jan/01/sasha-abramsky-chimen-abramsky http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/books/189017/chimen-abramsky Huffington Post Washington Free Beacon Financial Times Washington Post Jewish Chronicle Ham and High (Hampstead and Highgate) Jewish Book Council Kirkus Calcutta Telegraph Times Literary Supplement Shelf Awareness Sasha Abramsky speaking about the book The House of…
Traces: Representations of the Holocaust and Antisemitism in British Film and Television In collaboration with the British Jewish Contemporary Cultures Network and supported by Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image Speakers: Nathan Abrams, Bangor University; James Jordan, University of Southampton; Caroline Kaye, University of Manchester; Sue Vice, University of Sheffield. Date: Wednesday 8 November 2017…
