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.
George Prochnik
Articles
The Hasidic Question
On "Hasidism: A New History," recently released by Princeton University Press.
What Gershom Scholem and Hannah Arendt Can Teach Us About Evil Today
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
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