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The Némirovsky ParadoxMonday, May 10, 2010 by Francine Prose | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new biography unconvincingly defends the Russian-Jewish-French novelist who died in Auschwitz in 1942 and whose work, rediscovered in 2004 to worldwide adulation, was then revealed to harbor a pronounced anti-Semitic streak.Soothing the Savage Breast?
Monday, May 10, 2010 by Jeremy Eichler | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The gambist Jordi Savall's ambitious "Jerusalem" project offers mesmerizing sounds but fails to demonstrate music's alleged power to unite and conciliate.Tar Heels
Monday, May 10, 2010 by Ben Steelman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
A new book narrates the Jewish history of North Carolina, from Roanoke Island to Harry Golden and beyond.
LeviticusFriday, May 7, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Tomorrow, synagogue-goers will hear the final yearly readings from the biblical Book of Leviticus (in Hebrew, Vayikra). As every year, they will no doubt reflect on what is in some ways the most challenging and mind-bending volume of the Torah. The books flanking Leviticus on either side easily comport with what we usually think of as "religious literature." The two before it, Genesis and Exodus, tell stories of creation, family and nation-building, enslavement, exodus, and revelation. Of the two after it, Numbers offers morality tales of the wilderness and Deuteronomy gives us poetry, prophecy, and detailed ethical-legal teachings. By contrast, Leviticus...
Friday, May 7, 2010 by Ben Hartman | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
At a Tikvah-sponsored summer program in Israel, a select group of students, educators, and intellectuals will revisit the founding ideas behind a state at once Jewish and democratic.When Truman Wavered
Friday, May 7, 2010 by Allis Radosh and Ronald Radosh | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In the months and days leading up to May 14, 1948, a fierce internal battle tested and all but swayed the President's support for a Jewish state.The Enemy of My Enemy is Still My Enemy
Friday, May 7, 2010 by Scott Jaschik | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
The re-education of a Lebanese professor who made the mistake of collaborating on a pro-Palestinian book with two pro-Palestinian Israeli academics.America in Hebrew Eyes
Friday, May 7, 2010 by Robert M. Seltzer | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
In Ha-Zefirah, a Warsaw daily, Hebrew-reading East European Jews in the late 19th century could learn, among other things, about an attractive, bustling, intriguing New World.Singing the Yemen Blues
Friday, May 7, 2010 by Ben Shalev | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
From a childhood studying Torah to a career as a professional singer (and an expert in Serbian church music), Ravid Kahalani is returning to his Yemenite roots. Watch a recording session.Mappings
Friday, May 7, 2010 by Philologos | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks
Tracing a word that seems to mean the same thing in Hebrew, English, and Latin.