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Battles of Paris
Friday, February 12, 2010 by Léa Khayata | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In the 19th arrondissement, anti-Semitism waxes and wanes, but remains a fact of life.
Eastern Europe Eastern Europe
Friday, February 12, 2010 by | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features

The rediscovery—and recovery—of Eastern Europe are central elements in contemporary Jewish culture. Ultra-Orthodoxy tries to maintain versions of Eastern European dress, speech, and mores. The theology of Abraham Joshua Heschel, the melodies of Shlomo Carlebach, the sound of klezmer, the literary productions of authors as disparate as S.Y. Agnon and Jonathan Safran Foer: all in their distinct ways seek to find, in the murdered world of Eastern Europe, a source of living energy for the present.  Not all succeed, and only the best display a grasp of the sheer complexity of the civilization they mean to retrieve and/or to reconstruct. In one impressive recent study, large swathes of...
No Surprise
Friday, February 12, 2010 by Daniel Doron | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

In Haiti, Israel revealed not a different face but its true face.
Announcing a New Jewish Journal
Friday, February 12, 2010 by Jordan Michael Smith | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The premiere issue of the Jewish Review of Books, a quarterly—and a sister publication of Jewish Ideas Daily—will be out next week.
Bob Dylan’s Black History
Friday, February 12, 2010 by Dayo Olopade | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Paying tribute to "a skinny Jewish man from Minnesota" and his role in the civil-rights movement of the 1960's.
Follow the Map
Thursday, February 11, 2010 | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

The central thoroughfare of Byzantine-era Jerusalem has been exposed, just where an ancient mosaic says it was.
Putting Hitler Back on the Shelves
Thursday, February 11, 2010 by David Gordon Smith | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

Needed, according to a leading German historian, is a proper, scholarly edition of a book not legally published in Germany since 1945.
Roots, Marrano-Style
Thursday, February 11, 2010 by Mark Rebacz | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A rabbi who was born in Spain as a Christian descendant of secret Jews is returning to teach Judaism to his fellows.
The News from Wadi Abu Jamil
Thursday, February 11, 2010 by Alexandra Sandels | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

A new hit book in Arabic attempts to resurrect Beirut's lost Jewish past.
Standing Alone
Thursday, February 11, 2010 by David Hazony | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Picks

It is much easier to manufacture claims about Israel's inhumanity than it is to refute them.