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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. 

The Hasidic Question

On "Hasidism: A New History," recently released by Princeton University Press....

GEORGE PROCHNIK

RELIGION

HISTORY

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 ...

GEORGE PROCHNIK

POLITICS

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....

GEORGE PROCHNIK

ART & ARCHITECTURE

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A Tale of Two Freuds: Thinking in Pictures

GEORGE PROCHNIK

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