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The Hasidic Question
On "Hasidism: A New History," recently released by Princeton University Press....
George Prochnik
George Prochnik’s most recent book, Stranger in a Strange Land: Searching for Gershom Scholem and Jerusalem was a New York Times “Editor’s Choice” and has been long-listed for the Wingate Prize in the United Kingdom. His previous book, The Impossible Exile: Stefan Zweig at the End of the World, won the National Jewish Book Award for Biography/Memoir in 2014. He is editor-at-large for Cabinet magazine.
Articles
What Gershom Scholem and Hannah Arendt Can Teach Us About Evil Today
This piece will appear in the upcoming LARB Quarterly Journal, No. 15: Revolution, available in July. Become a member today to receive the issue. WHEN GERSHOM SCHOLEM, the humanist scholar of Jewish mysticism, first met the philosopher Hannah Arendt in the ...
The Desert Threshold
If we view the notion of climate change from the point of view of colonial history we can see countless examples of climate change engineered as a project....
A Tale of Two Freuds: Thinking in Pictures
Lucian Freud, sleeping by the lion carpet, 1996, oil on canvas(1922–2011) / private collection photo credit: © the Lucian Freud Archive / the Bridgeman Art Library “Thinking in pictures is…only a very incomplete form of becoming conscious. In some way, too, ...
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