Jew or Jewish Person
Mark Oppenheimer in the New York Times asks why people (including Jews) don’t or won’t use the word Jew, when they are quite comfortable talking about Christians and Moslems. Check out the whole article.
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Last Things by Marissa Moss
Reblogged from Writing About Reading An uncredited reviewer in Publishers Weekly writes: “Deeply affecting and harrowing… This is not a sentimental story of how suffering ennobles people. Moss’s deliberately naive drawings effectively accompany her painfully direct text…The fact that the family does endure is impressive, and this book demonstrates how art can transmute suffering into literature.”…
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Immigration and Emigration:The world in a city–East End Jews
East End Jews In the late-19th Century, the church at the corner of Brick Lane became a synagogue, as thousands of Jews moved into Spitalfields in the Huguenots’s wake. More than 2 million Jews left Eastern Europe between 1881 and 1914, prompted by economic hardship and increasingly ferocious persecution. Following the assassination of Tsar Alexander…
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The Battle of Cable Street is brought up in response to Trump in @onthemedia For Antifa, Not All Speech Should Be Free via @WNYC
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R.I.P. Zygmunt Bauman
He’s not a literary author, but has been a enormous influence for critics and authors in the world of Anglo-Jewish writing (and far beyond–I just bought a book of his in Phoenix, AZ) that it is worth linking to him here. Bauman Institute Wikipedia Page (apparently there are issues with it. Can you fix them?)…
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The Infidel (film)
The Infidel (2010) Director Josh Appignanesi The Infidel (2010) This is not only a very Jewish movie, it’s a very British and a very Islamic movie dealing with the matter of multiculturalism. Omid Djalili plays Mahmud, a Muslim who discovers not only that he’s been adopted but also that he’s Jewish. The script, written by…
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“The Promised Land” Open University, London, 23rd July 2015
http://bjcc.bangor.ac.uk/past-events.php.en Papers given: ‘Tragedy or Neutropia? The Honourable Woman’ Dr. Sue Vice, University of Sheffield ‘British-Jewish Utopias and Dystopias from Zangwill to Jacobson’ Professor Brian Cheyette, University of Reading “No Outlines”: From Dystopia to Heterotopia in Howard Jacobson’s J’ Dr. Ruth Gilbert, University of Winchester ‘Messianism and British-Jewish Utopia’ Dr. Peter Lawson, Open University ‘The…
