Israel’s Maddening Electoral System Deserves Credit for Holding the Country Together
Forcing the tribes to compromise.
June 28, 2019
Delmore Schwartz’s American Jewish Modernism
“In Dreams Begin Responsibilities.”
In 1937, Partisan Review—newly reconstituted after its break with the Communist party—published a short story by the poet Delmore Schwartz titled “In Dreams Begin Responsibilities,” which the editors chose to place in front of contributions from Wallace Stevens, Edmund Wilson, Lionel Trilling, and Pablo Picasso. In this eerie and unusual story, the narrator experiences watching his own parents’ courtship on a movie screen. Ruth R. Wisse argues that its publication constituted an American debut of literary modernism, but also a uniquely Jewish kind of literary modernism:
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The U.S. Should Stand Up for Religious Freedom in China
Where the real concentration camps are.
Caught Between the Palestinian Authority and Saudi Arabia, Arab Jerusalem Goes Its Own Way
Both Riyadh and Ramallah may be encouraging the Arabs of eastern Jerusalem to choose Israel.
Delmore Schwartz’s American Jewish Modernism
“In Dreams Begin Responsibilities.”
For Hitler, Anti-Semitism, Anti-Capitalism, and Anti-Americanism Were All Connected
Two new biographies suggest a warning for today.