Reviving the Peace Process Brings Great Costs and Little Potential for Success
There is harm in trying.
June 26, 2017
A Play about a Great Yiddish Play Mangles Its Source to Make Lesbianism Seem Scandalous Again
The moral indecency of “Indecent.”
Written by Sholem Asch (1880–1952), one of the most prominent Yiddish writers of his day, the play God of Vengeance tells of a brothel keeper striving for respectability along with religious absolution for his life of sin. The current Broadway play Indecent tells the story of the Asch play, focusing on its production on the New York Yiddish stage, which was shut down for obscenity—specifically, a lesbian romance between the brothel keeper’s daughter and one of his employees. In her review, Ruth Wisse assails Indecent for misunderstanding both Asch’s work and its reception:
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Democratic Senators Have No Interest in Persecuted Women if They’ve Been Persecuted by Muslims
Moral relativism disguised as cultural sensitivity.
A Play about a Great Yiddish Play Mangles Its Source to Make Lesbianism Seem Scandalous Again
The moral indecency of “Indecent.”
Will No One Stop Islamic State’s War on Egyptian Christians?
The fate of the Copts is now the main measure of the effectiveness of Sisi’s policies.
The Narrow Orthodoxies of Jewish Cosmopolitanism
Between Princeton and Auschwitz.