It’s Israel’s Critics, Not Its Supporters, Who Harbor Racist Attitudes toward Palestinians
A tale of two sentences.
January 9, 2019
A Yiddish Poem about a Werewolf Provides a Haunting Meditation on Jewish Suffering
H. Leyvik's masterpiece.
Written in 1920 in the wake of the massacres of tens of thousands of Jews by Ukrainian militias during the Russian Civil War, “The Wolf,” a verse epic by the American Yiddish poet H. Leivick, has as its protagonist a rabbi who awakes to find himself the sole survivor in his destroyed shtetl. He retreats to the forest, where he is magically transformed into a werewolf, and then returns to his hometown, now being rebuilt by returning refugees. There he resumes his clerical post while in human form. Dara Horn explores the poem’s symbolism, and its enduring relevance:
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Rashida Tlaib’s Anti-Semitic Defense of Boycotts of Israel
Will her fellow Democrats condemn it?
The Giant Corporations That Nurtured Israel’s Success as a “Start-Up Nation” May Now Be Undermining It
The number of start-ups founded each year is falling, while the number that close is rising.
Reading the Hebrew Bible as the Founding Document of Nationalism
With an exegesis of the Tanakh’s final verses.
A Yiddish Poem about a Werewolf Provides a Haunting Meditation on Jewish Suffering
H. Leyvik's masterpiece.