My professor Bryan Cheyette aside from being a literary scholar is a Dylanologist. In a personal sense, Dylan is a connection–when I first began to think about doing my doctorate, I spent several amazing times talking through ideas with Christopher Ricks, Dr. Cheyette names “Dylanologist-in-Chief.” After the topics that Dr. Ricks and I were discussing didn’t…
Really interested in seeing this. Jay Howard Geller and Leslie Morris, Editors As German Jews emigrated in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and as exiles from Nazi Germany, they carried the traditions, culture, and particular prejudices of their home with them. At the same time, Germany—and Berlin in particular—attracted both secular and religious Jewish…
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…
CFP for a Symposium, co-sponsored by the AHRC BJ:CC Network (Bangor University and the University of Winchester) and ‘Identities’ at the University of Reading, to be held at the University of Reading on 4th November, 2016: Deadline for submissions: Saturday, October 1, 2016 The Interface Between British Contemporary Black and Jewish Cultures Over the past…
CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS: ZIONISM AND ANTISEMITISM – INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck, University of London 30 May – 1 June 2017 ZIONISM AND ANTISEMITISM – INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck, University of London 30 May – 1 June 2017 CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR…
A documentary film written and directed by Lindsay Anderson in 1953. It looks at the Dreamland Fun Fair in Margate that relates to Bernard Kops’ play and novel On Margate Sands. Click on the images below or here to view the whole film. https://youtu.be/LLlKR1x1oWY https://youtu.be/WwEMnLrVHkA
In my reading and thinking about Jewish theatre, I come across things that I didn’t know about or haven’t thought about much. Some are specifically Jewish, and others are just be something that I or someone else thought of in thinking about a Jewish writer or some other Jewish context. Here’s one: James Ensor
Paul Beatty, Deborah Levy, Graeme Macrae Burnet, Ottessa Moshfegh, David Szalay, and Madeleine Thien have been named to the shortlist for the 2016 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. This is the third year that the prize has been open to writers of any nationality, and it finds the shortlist evenly split between two British, two…
Obituraries; The Guardian The New York TImes Jewish Chronicle
I came across this as I was writing about Bernard Kops’ East End plays.
