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Couch Quest — Path to Past and Future

Michael Bronski May 13, 2004

Furniture, vital in everyday life, hardly ever plays a large role in art. Henry James\’ \”The Spoils of Poynton\” comes to mind, in which the characters\’ inner lives are manifested in their dreadful fight over inherited furnishings, as do stories by Anzia Yezierska, in which the meager possessions of immigrant Jews on the Lower East Side come to symbolize both their survival and their salvation. But for the most part, as in much of our lives, tables, chairs, sofas, bureaus, cabinets and the like are taken for granted in art, imbued with little meaning.

Mixed Marriage, Mixed Message

Sandee Brawarsky May 6, 2004

\”Sort of Jewish\”,\”Jewish and something else\” \”might as well be Jewish\” are some of the ways people describe their Jewish identity in Sylvia Barack Fishman\’s significant new book probing the religious character of mixed-marriage households, \”Double or Nothing: Jewish Families and Mixed Marriage.\”

New Memoirs Join Shoah’s Canon

Sandee Brawarsky April 15, 2004

\”To write or not to write,\” Eva Gossman ponders in the first chapter of her Holocaust memoir, recounting the internal debate she had about whether to write this book. She asked many deep and tough questions: about whether it made sense, given all that has been written about the period, to write one more account; whether a personal narrative would add to historians\’ understanding; whether memory is reliable after so many years.

‘L-Words’ in a J World

David Finnigan March 25, 2004

Joan Nestle is one of many Jewish lesbian writers with work catalogued at ONE, an archive similar to New York\’s Lesbian Herstory Archive, which Nestle co-founded in 1973.

In Search of My Sephardic Ancestors

Alana Newhouse March 18, 2004

Some months ago, I saw a Jewish homeless man near my New York apartment. He was wearing a yarmulke and muttering Hebrew words, and I think I saw a tattered prayer book in his shopping cart.

The Giving Ladder

Wendy Belzberg March 18, 2004

Even a wizard at niche marketing would tremble before the title of Julie Salamon\’s most recent book. "Rambam\’s Ladder," based on an ancient text by Rabbi Moses ben Maimon, sounds like it\’s bound for the remainder bins even before it hits the Judaica sections.

Shoah Book Brings Museum Experience

Steve Lipman March 11, 2004

Michael Berenbaum, a first-rate scholar and writer, who was founding director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., has produced, in effect, a traveling museum, or in barely more than two score pages, a traveling museum exhibit.

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