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....

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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 ...

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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....

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ART & ARCHITECTURE

A Tale of Two Freuds: Thinking in Pictures

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